Diesel Engine Problems of Ford E-550

While driving truck engines would shut off and then restart. This happened a couple of time on a narrow mountain road causing me to lose steering for a second or two, very scary. Problem fixed after I replaced the cps on my own.

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We have 3- 2003 f550 trucks, the first two trucks are always in the shop for repair to the engines, the first truck 1fdaf56p83ed86142 has had two re-manufactured engines put in and the 2nd truck 1fdf56p83ed86143 has had patch jobs done to the motor. These trucks are work trucks and are on the highways five days a week or more, but the safety issues of these trucks is that the engine either freezes up or just quits and this has happened on a corner, intersection on a hill they are going down. At this time we have been lucky that there has been areas to pull off the side of the road and cars have able to swerve around us to avoid an accident. He had to back down with the traffic on the west bound side to get to an area that was out of the way. Also he was lucky he was in an area where the west bound traffic could see him, if this would have been more of a curve there probably would have been an accident. Someone is going to get killed, because there is no warning when these trucks will shut down, because of motor problems. The motor have had intercooler problems, injectors replaced, motor shutting down, etc. . The Ford motor company is well aware of this problem because we have read in other papers of similar incidents, it looks at this time that Ford is trying to patch the trucks together instead of putting in a new motor and style, in which is not having these problems. We have also filed a previous complaint with Ford motor company the first time the oil coolers went out and the injectors, then again today when the motor quit again in traffic in the mountain areas, this was motor shut down for no reason. There a lot of dangerous curves and hills, some are which 6% to 10% grades that a semi or larger would not be able to stop as quickly as a passenger car or smaller vehicle!.

- the contact stated that between the turbo and the inner cooler, there were two stainless steel lines connected with a flexible joint and the flexible joint was coming loose. The contact stated that when it came off he lost power . The contact stated that vehicle pulled a 5th wheel trailer, and that this has happened twice. The contact stated that neither the weather nor the road conditions were a factor. The contact also stated that he was driving 50 mph. Ak the consumer stated the part was replaced under warranty/ updated 06/08/07.

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2003 Ford f250 6. 0 diesel, the hose between the tubro and the intercooler is blowing off. This results in a loss of power and if the clamp cuts the belt it will result in the failure in the power steering and power braking systems. Ford has a upgrade hose kit (5c3z*6c646) for $100. 00 if the truck has more than 36000 miles. Mine has 41000. The hose failed on interstate 26 as I was pulling my 29' travel trailer up a 6% grade at the saluda mountains, after the hose failure I was only able to proceed at 20mph, not good on a interstate with trucks going by at 60-70mph. Ford motor CO. Customer assistance dept. Stated this problem was a engineering problem not a warranty issue. Both the dealers, the dealer that sold me the truck and the one which repaired it said it was a common problem with the 6. 0 engine) , therefore there is no recall, only a upgrade kit after failure. I feel I should have been notified of this problem before failure and the part should have been replace at no charge. During regular service, I have 41000 miles on my truck. The selling dealer is the only servicer. This sudden loss of power in high speed traffic can cause someone pulling a loaded truck to be rear ended, would be bad in my case with a 29' trailer and a f-250 truck scattered on the interstate.

Truck idles very rough. When shifting from reverse to drive truck goes dead. Excessive smoke when cranked. Engine races when idling. Truck lags when accelerator is pressed.

Since may 2nd, 2003 have had farm truck, f550 6. 0 liter diesel 4x4 cab & chassis, into dealer six (6) times for a problem with 6. 0 liter diesel motor, have asked twice to fix leaking transmission/transfer case and have complained once about severe front end shake (to which no responce was made and after discovering Ford had installed drive position only tires on front axle, replacement was made with proper steering tires). Truck used for long distance transportation of hay, straw, cattle and machinery. Engine since having 2,000 miles has rough idle, excessive smoking, engine miss (skip) under load or idling, poor fuel economy. On August 1st, 2003 the engine lost power, a short while later stalled, while under load and on a major interstate. This caused significant loss of braking capacity on the pulling unit, with a heavier load or on a grade this could have been serious. Able to get on shoulder, truck re-started proceeded with caution to next ramp engine stalled again coming down ramp same braking problem. This time it appears that a number of fuel injectors failed dumping fuel into crank case, 11 extra quarts, metal shavings in pan and destroying the turbo. (drop down menu for vehicle information only shows option of e550 this is a f550. ).

2003 Ford super duty f350 6. 0 liter diesel: the first time I tried to pull my 5th wheel with this truck, it would buck furiously and I could only stop the bucking by depressing the accelerator pedal to the floor of immediately let up off the pedal. During this trip with the 5ht wheel in tow, at 815 miles the engine quit at the most inopportune times. I was climbing a 5% grade and traveling in the truck slow lane on interstate 68. I managed to get the rig to the shoulder but still in a very dangerous situation. It took 3 hours to get the rig moved to a safe location. The fuel injection control module (ficm)had failed. Ford has designed this ficm no less than 4 times. The mechanic told me that I had a fuel injector misfiring since day one of this truck being in service. The truck was out of service for 5 days while repairs were made. A month later on August 8, 2003 at 2568 miles I lost a fuel injector or two and broke a rocker arm while traveling on interstate 74. The truck was out of service for another 10 days while the engine was pulled out and 27 parts replaced. With the addition of one business day for a factory recall brings the total business days out of service to 14 days. The sad part is that I traded a 2002 f350 with more problems than I care to talke about in the hopes that I could make my life a little easier with this 2003 f350. Big mistake!.

VIN number 1ftsw31p13eb48296 this is an 03 Ford f350 4x4 crewcab , automatic with the 6. 0 power stroke diesel. In June or there abouts this vehicle received the recall where they replaced the icp and flashed the computer. The truck now exhibits extremely low power below 1800 rpm making it dangerous to pull out into traffic. There is approximately a 4 to 5 second delay from stepping on the gas to where there is adequate power to pull into traffic. I have had several near misses to to the situation. When to power does come on it is suddenly and can cause the tires to lose traction. Prior to the re-flash the truck was fine with a smooth power increase form the point of stepping on the gas. I was told Ford detuned these trucks with the re-flash( without my knowledge of the reduction in power). I feel this is very dangerous, and is especially exaggerated when towing a trailer which is what I bought this truck for. It has been in the shop numerous time and the dealer cant help as Ford will not allow them to put the old program back it.