This truck has 40000 miles on it. Truck is an 03 55k miles The guy I bought the truck off of told me the turbo had been reconditioned about 1000 miles ago. I'm guessing this air puff is sign of a valve problem? Bone stock except for superchips tune. Yesterday I shut it off and was setting up my scangauge and doing few other things and noticed I ran the batteries down to 7 volts. I have also changed both batteries.
Also the dash light shouldn't cause it not to start? So I'm thinking ficm is going out. Problem is this is happening more frequently now!!! Few weeks later she hesitates a little bit while she's cold in the morning. Will any code reader like the Actron one mentioned read every. Now for the last 6k-8k miles there is a little smoke at a cold start. When the wrench light comes on the vehicle may go automatically into limp mode. This problem started about six months after purchase and has been continuing since and over the last 3 months has been more and more frequent. Also when I unplug the sensor it still does nothing.
Check out some of my other posts if you need more tips and info. I have a 2003 F350 6. It reminds me of an old chevy with bad valve seals. The contacts are locate in a plastic housing so I had to use a small metal rod and wrapped fine sand paper on the end to be able to get to the contacts. Troubleshooting: Changed primary filter under truck. I went to start truck up and noticed it took awhile longer than normal to start up and when it did finally kick over, truck and no power at all. But now when I got it all put back together and went to start it up now have no crank at all, the wrench light is coming on, when I hook up my scangauge it will not connect so I can't get any readings or codes I have checked all the fuses that have to do the the ignition system.
Been running great did that 15,000 miles ago. Shop for Auto Code Readers on Amazon. Engine light came on yesterday and started missing on take offs. I towed my landscape trailer yesterday full of mulch and only went about 5 miles with the load, after the job driving to another one I noticed it sounded like it was missing at idle with a small amount of white smoke. Brake System Alert Light - this symbol indicates a problem with the braking system.
To my knowledge, truck has original turbo Garrett , never been removed or cleaned by me. Made it home after it did this there times. I let her run 3-5 minutes b4 actually driving but as u know it's a little while to get up to operating temp. The chances are pretty good that you will find a small leak in a line or a wheel cylinder leaking, pay close attention to the rear of the truck because that is normally where these problems occur. I went and had a relative comp. I then removed cap from secondary filter and checked for trash.
If that is alright, refit the battery to the car. Since we started getting colder mornings I have noticed a small amount of white, or blueish white smoke on start up for about 5 secs or so. Recently I have had issues with a long crank before starting at times but once it started there were no issues driving. However once i turn the engine off and on again, the sign goes off and its as if it never happened. Most modern day vehicles are designed to start giving some kind of problem after about 100,000 miles or five years which ever crops up first, and it seems like your model is about to experience this. Why start sometimes then not? But if the motor is warm and it sits for a bit maybe 10 min or less it blows a nice puff of blue smoke or burnt oil. For years I attempted to purchase an aftermarket service manual for this vehicle and could not find.
Truck runs smooth doesn't stutter or miss. The power steering not longer works and the brakes are very hard to use. I did notice fuel drained completely from bowl in about 5 minutes. The transmission fault light will probably not be a surprise when it shows up. P0972, P0973, P0974 Shift Solenoid A Shift Solenoid A is either shorting out, or an open circuit. I would like the hear what others have to say about the problems I'm having with my 2006 F-350 sd xlt 6.
Well i just drove to get food and back to the house was only gone for 15 to 20 minutes amd never cut the truck off. This article applies to the Ford F-150. One thing that you could try is to drain the water from the water separator that is mounted on the frame under drivers front door. So I'm thinking ficm is going out. The wrench warning sign comes while in motion and the performance changes, vehicle goes on laboured movement and jerks if in traffic. Giving code p2285 Injector Control Pressure Sensor Circuit Low. If your transmission begins to slip you need to diagnose it immediately, otherwise a small fix can turn into a very costly repair.