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Old Jun 21, 2008 | 01:30 PM
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Question Died while doing 65

Ok, Masters of the 7.3l, I had a weird thing happen to me yesterday and I hope its just a fluke. If not, I'm going to need your help.

I was driving down the freeway, doing 65mph, all of a sudden as I tried to switch lanes, it had a sudden loss of power. Kaput, nothing happened as I touched the gas, took me a second to realize, I looked at the dummy gauges, all was fine there, noticed the WTS light was on, (didn't notice the rpms sorry), and it didn't sound like the engine was running. A second later I had dropped 5mph and all of a sudden it was running again and the WTS light was gone. I was only going 10 miles away from home, and this didn't happen on the way back, and it has never happened before. What the heck happened?

Only mods so far are the intake, down pipe, and coon's 10k. I did clean the fpr screen when I did coon's mod.

Anybody got an idea? Do you think it F'ed any thing up? I appreciate any and all input.
 
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Old Jun 21, 2008 | 02:13 PM
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Common CPS issue.
The newer grey one seems to be reliable plus its only $20

I had it shut down on me like that while pulling.... I have a spare in the glove box.
 
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Old Jun 21, 2008 | 02:29 PM
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I was kinda thinking about the cps, but I thought there were more issues associated with that. I'll contact the stealership monday and inquire about the recall. If it happens again, will it f*** anything up?

almost forgot, thanks for your help ForemanES.
 
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Old Jun 21, 2008 | 03:20 PM
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No problem..... I dont think it would cause to much fuss because almost everything is mechanical (fuel pump, oil pumps)
 
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Old Jun 21, 2008 | 07:38 PM
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Yep, sounds like the CPS to me.
 
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