Six problems related to brake master cylinder have been reported for the 2000 Ford F-250. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
The contact owns a 2000 Ford F-250 sd. While driving 10 mph, the contact smelled burning wires in the vehicle and noticed smoke coming from the hood. He pulled the vehicle over and opened the hood. The smoke ceased, but there was a melted black wire under the master cylinder, which he believes caused the smoke. The contact drove back home, looked under the hood again, and noticed that it was the brake pressure switch. Through research, he found that there was a recall, but it did not include diesel engines. The dealer was unable to assist. The current and failure mileages were 160,000.
The rear brake line failed due to corrosion. The failed brake line allowed the brake fluid to totally drain the reservoir on the master cylinder. The reservoir for the rear brakes is shared with the front brakes so that the front brakes were no longer able to function as well. The operator then has no brakes at all on the vehicle with the exception of the parking brake. In the case of the first failure, I was able to use the manual transmission to slow the vehicle and then shift into reverse (it has synchros in reverse as well) to stop the vehicle. In the case of the second failure, the vehicle was in my driveway when the failure occurred. Even though the brake pedal was only pushed once, the reservoir still completely drained leaving absolutely no brakes. I feel that this brake failure mode does not comply with the intent of what I understand the law to be, that requires a split brake system that enables the operator to stop the vehicle when either front or rear brakes fail. The current brake system does have a split master cylinder but the common reservoir feature prevents the split master cylinder from operating as intended/required.
The contact owns a 2000 Ford F-250 sd. The contact stated that the vehicle was losing brake fuel, which was leaking from the master cylinder push rod retainer clip. The failure occurs when the vehicle is in motion or parked. The dealer stated that they would not repair the failure for free because the vehicle was not included in a recall. The failure mileage was 83,000.
Depressed clutch pedal and released it. The pedal rose an additional 4 inches making it very difficult if not impossible to use the clutch. I was informed by the dealer this was a common problem and I had been lucky that it had not risen an additional . 25 inch because I would have had no clutch. Ford knew there was a problem with the master cylinder and had an upgrade kit available which I knew nothing about. I assume the same master cylinder is used in the brakes.
The metal brake line from the master cylinder up to the front wheels has a hole, which was worn into from rubbing against the moving steering wheel shaft. Causing a loss of braking fluid. Consumer states that this line should have been secured to the firewall, to prevent situations like this from occuring. Also the brake line was replaced by the dealer under warranty.
Brakes first was having problems at approx 15,000 miles the rotors had went out. Fallon Ford supposely turned the rotors and put new pads on. At approx. 28,000 miles lithia turned the rotors and put new pads on, stating that fallon never did that, then later on the brakes still acting up pulling right. Lithia put on a new master cylinder, lithia also had the alighment problem so they had shimms put in. Lithia relplaced the electronic cluster twice. When taken in a gain for chattering lithia said there was nothing wrong with the brakes, they also said because it was out of warranty they would not work on it with out being paid. Jones west Ford reviewed all of the paper work and seeing that it met the lemon law they refused to work on it. Letter was written to the ceo of Ford, who said they could not do anything because the trunk is used for business. The district rep that came to lithia said they could not replace the truck because lithia was not a Ford/truck dealer ship that the truck should be replaced, litha since has refused to work on the truck, fallon refuses to replace the truck. Now the brakes have completely failed. We took it in to a goodyear shop who said when we had the electrical failure the abs box and the porportioning valve should have been replace and is what probably was what caused this problem.