7.3 Won't Start
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From: Midland
7.3 Won't Start
My dad has a 2001 F250 4x4 automatic with 77,000 miles and the powerstroke under the hood just doesn't seem to want to go. Last sunday he drove it in the morning and in the evening it started hard and seemed to roll over really slow, but started. Next day it was fine. This morning the thing cranked over full speed and started perfectly fine but this afternoon it would not start at all. It rolls over slow and all the lights in the dash flicker on and off and a clicking noise comes from behind the dash. The batteries show full charge.
Any help much appreciated.
Any help much appreciated.
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clean the battery posts, that is most likely the problem, there is a post cleaner for a couple of bucks at auto zone that should do the trick. Make sure you do all four, the cleaner things is a wire brush contraption that works like chalk for a cue stick. if that doesnt cure it, check the connection at the starter, and then possibly pull the starter off and have it checked, but my money is on the battery connections
let us know how it turns out
let us know how it turns out
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clean the battery posts, that is most likely the problem, there is a post cleaner for a couple of bucks at auto zone that should do the trick. Make sure you do all four, the cleaner things is a wire brush contraption that works like chalk for a cue stick. if that doesnt cure it, check the connection at the starter, and then possibly pull the starter off and have it checked, but my money is on the battery connections
let us know how it turns out
let us know how it turns out
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From: South LA
the obvious is the batteries...even thought they show full charge w/12.5 volts, that doesn't mean they are necessarily good. Usually when you have a bad connection you will lose ground....ie no lights at all. but check them anyway like the others said.
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I experienced that same problem a few months ago. One of my batteries tested at 12v and no cranking amps! The next month I had to replace my starter. It was 20 below zero that day....
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Batteries is what I thought, but I didn't know about the pulsing lights in the gauge pod. I've ever paid any attention to what lights up and what doesn't when you crank it. So I'll change them out tonight or tomorrow morning and cross my fingers.
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Could it possibly be the selinoid (have no idea how to spell it). Our church has a bus that had some of the same symptoms. They drove it to pick up some stuff then would not start. Batteries was good, amps was good, hooked up to my f350 and still nothing. Except for the click under the dash.
Then we tried jumping the post on the selinoid and it started right up. We used a screw driver to do this. Make sure the key is turned over.
Good luck!!!!
Then we tried jumping the post on the selinoid and it started right up. We used a screw driver to do this. Make sure the key is turned over.
Good luck!!!!
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I'm on the brink of needing to replace my cables and connections and every now and again my truck will act up because one of the connectors wiggled loose. My truck does the same "flicker and click" - thats a tell-tale symptom of battery health or connection issues.