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Old Oct 5, 2007 | 08:58 PM
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I have the truck back from the dealer not 3 hours after a week of work being done and I have a new code; P0284 Cylinder 8 Contribution/Balance Fault. Someone shoot me please!!!
I cant find any info in my books on this, and it's most likely something stupit. Like a injector o-ring that’s bad. Need in-put.
Truck smokes like a old coal train and runs like it to. It has no getup and go anymore.
 
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Old Oct 5, 2007 | 09:34 PM
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I'm pretty sure it means cylinder #8 is not making power, check the injector for issues.
 
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Old Oct 5, 2007 | 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by dogman
I have a new code; P0284 Cylinder 8 Contribution/Balance Fault. Someone shoot me please!!!
This was all that I could find...

DTC: P0284
Description: Cylinder 8 contribution/balance fault
Possible Causes: Power cylinder, valve train or injector problem, circuit

Good luck...


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Old Oct 16, 2007 | 07:56 PM
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The new twist here dropped the truck off today so they could fix the code 284 and now the PCM is bad. It will never end, so next week it's going to another dealer (one I use to work for) and there going to go into the trucks systems and see if there is any other crap that needs to be fixed.



Has anyone heard anything on running tuners on the 6.0, is the biggest cause of head gaskets pop? Something to do with not enough head bolts in the 6.0.
 
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