hey yall i have a real problem. i have a 99 450 with the v 10 and today i went to start it and it acted life a dead batt. but when i put the charger on it made no difference. so i hitthe key again and it started but it is knocking on the passenger side (top end) has any one ever seen this???? it only has 70,000 on the ticker

 

Check all your exhaust manifolds studs. I hope a spark splug didn't shoot out or is about to.

 

Sounds more like it hydrolocked from a leaky injector.

If that's the case and it started, it might have done major damage.

Pull all the plugs on that side and see if the cylinder is flooded with fuel (or coolant).

 

i finally got the truck in the shop saurday morning and the culprit was a leaky injector, that ******* killed my engine!!!#1 cyl now has a broken wrist pin or broken rod. are these engines this cheesy? ive have had engines hydrolock before and they were fine. i knew that i should have bought a powerstroke instead of this v 10 p o s

 

Hydrolocked on yea huh , unlucky though a diesel is going to have it problems as well either way you'd be in the 6.8 or 6.0/7.3 forums... you can't win

 

You should not complaint that you know V6 4.2L are famous for hydrolock and bent rod then threw though block.


Our V10 in F250 have 255,000 it run great. How many miles on that?

If block is good then you could just rebuilt it.

 

There is no way that any motor can survive a hydro lock. Not that I have seen a least.
And i think he said it has 70K.

 

My V10 POS has made history. Born in 1998, this POS still has the original serpentine belt not to mention has never failed to start. It has been loaded way too heavy and been door-deep in mud. This POS has even taught two young lads how to drive and one young lass. It's a dirty rotten shame this POS had to have it's first battery at just over 130K. What is wrong with Ford?

 

Denny

 

I'm been door-deep in water, does that count?

 

I have never seen ANY motor survive a true hydrolock condition either from fuel or water ingestion, especially a diesel. If it doesn't immediately come apart, the rod typically bends and then breaks shortly thereafter, usually protruding from the block.

 

I was in the commercial refrigeration for way to may years and a liquid slug in a compressor as one outcome NEW COMPRESSOR. I don't care who makes it a liquid lock is a death blow to anything that uses compression. Bad deal but I would think that if a injector was failing you would know it before it filled a cylinder with fuel.

Denny

 

Orn sounds like the common symptoms of a POS V10

 

I will agree...Did the truck run any different with a faulty injector? If it did, you can't blame the motor for blowing. If it didn't, these V10's run so smooth it could have been hard to tell, a double edge sword...

Rebuild that sucker, or throw another one in their for a couple grand and run it for a hundred or so thousand miles...

Thats one thing good about a gas vs diesel engine...You practically have no maintenance costs, yet if you do have a problem, the costs are cheap compared to a new diesel engine, especially if its out of warranty.

 

My V-10 starts so fast, like when the first cylinder goes over TDC its running at 1200 RPM when cold, if there's any fuel or coolant in any hole, its history.
Its a faulty injector (not made by Ford) its not the POS engines fault.
But I still wish mine didn't start quite so fast, it makes me nervous.