First the history: '03 X, 4x4 w/ the 7.3l. 116k miles and have been running WVO/diesel blend for around 5 months now. It's been running great except this morning it started hesitating a bit so it's time to change the fuel filter, plus I was on empty and it was time to fill up. So I stopped and added 12gal of diesel to my 44gal tank made it home and changed the filter. This is where the problems started. Upon removing the old filter if came apart; I have never had this happen before. I thought I had pulled it all out, but appareantly I left the bottom metal plate from the filter in the bowl. But before I realized this, I had ran the truck; drove it into the back yard filted up the rest of the tank w/ washed/heated/filted WVO like I always do and when I went to drive it back around it was running real rough and knocking and finally died. I pulled the new fuel filter and realized what I had done by leaving part of the old in there. So I removed the metal plate and drained the bowl the best I could as well as cleaned it. I then refilled the bowl w/ some staight diesel and replaced the filter and tried to start it. Well it will not start, sound like it's choking and knocking........oh, what have I done and does anybody have a suggestion on what to do next? Thank You Todd

 

You need to drop down to the 7.3L forum and post this down there. The brain trust that inhabits that forum should be able to get you going.

BTW, What the heck is WVO diesel? And what metal plate are you referring to? When I change the fuel bowl filters in my wife's Excursion and my F250, there is no metal plate that gets removed.

Stewart

 

Thank you Stewart for the direction, I will do copy it down there now.

WVO: waist veggie oil, I use the blending method w/ diesel.
The metal plate is the bottom part of the filter, when I removed the old one it came apart.

 

Ah, I didn't realize veggie oil was referred to as WVO, thanks. And I misunderstood your post. I thought you were talking about a metal plate at the bottom of the fuel bowl, that why I was like, "huh?"

I need to stop read-scanning posts when I'm in a hurry or distracted.

Stewart

 

It's all cool, I appreciate you scanning/reading anyways.

I think I may have found my problem; my Superchips programmer has a code reader on it and I'm getting tons of codes for the ICP sensor and when I pull the plug there is oil on it. I think it is all a coincidence, but I'm calling around now for a price. Thanks