Today I was hauling a lite load and pulled to the side of the HWY to check the tie downs, and I kept the truck running. When I pulled away and started to speed up to return to the lane the truck had no power and stalled. Several attemps to restart were in vain, I was able to get it to limp about a mile and a half then called a tow truck. It now sounds like an old two cyl farm tractor running on one cyl. The puzzle is that I have no engine service light. I have a 2000 F250 running the Edge and last fueled up 101 miles ago. The only other problem I ever had was a CPS failure. Any one have any ideas

 

Might be the cps again, ive heard they do that

 

Welcome to FTE,

That sounds like a UVC harness come loose. Check your connections where they go through the valve covers. Seems to be happening a lot lately. For more info, do a search using the search feature on the blue bar. Type in UVC and in advanced search you can narrow it down to the 99-03 diesels. You will find lots of good info on the repairs.

 

Ok I will Check the wiring to make sure all the connections are good.

 

CPS again would be my experience. 100k is all you get out of them. If you purchased it at International they have a year warranty.

 

Is there a way to test the CPS with out buying a new one and changing it out

 

Ford just reduced the price to $15.23 + $9.95 shipping at www.fordparts.com... p/n F7TZ-12K073-B.. For that price, i would just replace it.. easy to replace..

 

Ok I checked the UVC wires they looked good and I changed the fuel filter, I swapped my CPS with a truck at work and it ran fine. I used a scanner from work and it showed a 1298 code IDM failure / internal IDM failure. I cleared the code and can not get it again I guess it may need to be under load to trigger, but the truck will start and idle rough. Once in gear it really starts to shake a stumble. Can the truck start and idle if there is a problem with the IDM