general problems of the 2001 Ford F-250 - part 1

Tl-the contact owns a 2001 Ford F-250. The contact received NHTSA campaign number 05v017000 vehicle speed control while, the vehicle was parked \smoke spontaneously emerged from underneath the hood and caught fire there were no warning lights illuminated. . The contact extinguished the fire . The vehicle was taken to battlefield Ford commercial truck center 8980 mathis Ave, manassas, va 20110 ( 703) 368-3231 who stated that they were waiting on authorization but the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 144,840 . Ap.

2001 Ford f250. Consumer writes in regards to issues with the motor. The consumer stated the motor would back fire and blow out. The consumer stated there was a recall on the motor, but the manufacturer would not honor the recall.

Tl the contact owns a 2001 Ford F-250. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked, a fire was detected coming from underneath the driver's side wheel. The contact also mentioned that the driver side of the vehicle exploded. A police report was filed. The fire was extinguished by the local fire department. There were no injuries sustained that needed medical attention. The vehicle was not taken or towed to a dealer or independent mechanic for a diagnostic test or repairs. The vehicle was not repaired. The vehicle VIN was included in the NHTSA campaign number: 05v170000 (vehicle speed control). The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was unknown. Dr.

5 th ejected spark plug going down road at 45 mph.

The cylinder head gaskets are a manufacturer defect. They used inferior quality gaskets which result in engine malfunction. This manufacturer defect pertains to a 2001 Ford F-250 super duty 5. 4l v8. I am aware this issue became prevalent in 1999 Ford F-250 models and this issue carried forward to 2001. There was a recall for this issue for 1999 models - $4,500 per unit to replace complete engine assemblies where this manufacturer defect was most prevalent with cylinder head gaskets. Ford did not rectify this safety issue as it persisted in their 2001 models. A recall is necessary to rectify this manufacturer defect. . Read more...

Spark plug ejections.

Driving out of state for work and spark plug blew out of my engine. And from that results it cost me quiet a bit of extra money that I didn't have to spend and missed a days trying to get that problem fixed. And it ruin my fathers day weekend I wanted to spend with my kid.

I was in the process of running a medical in my personal truck when I starting the engine it popped and when I checked it out I noticed the engine blew out a spark plug. So when I called the parts store they said the type of motor I have in my truck is bad for blowing them like that and to fix it would cost a pretty penny so my question is if you all and Ford knows theres a problem how come they dont have to fix I know so far it hasnt been an saftey issue yet when will it be or is it a consumer issue.

While traveling at approximately 35 mph on a city street, the spark plug was blown out of the cylinder destroying the threads, coil pack and spark plug.

Spark plug blowout. When driving on the highway had a sparkplug blow out of the engine. Limped the truck home slowly with gas fumes every were. Very dangerous. Ford wont admit they have a problem but they do have a fix. Your dollars not theres. This is also the second time this has happened to me.

While I was driving along a hilly, winding road the engine of my 2001 F-250 diesel 4x4 truck unexpectedly shut off. I lost steering and braking. There were no lights on the dash. There was no prior indication of any problem with the engine or electrical system. I've had the truck for 12 years at the time and never experienced any problem like this. I was very fortunate to have been able to get the truck to the road's shoulder. After the truck stopped I put the shift into park. The key was still in the run position. I simply turned it to the start position and the engine started right up. I took it immediately to the local Ford dealer who ran diagnostics on the truck. They found no indication of a problem other than one battery's voltage was slightly low, but not out of acceptable range. I replaced both batteries as they were almost 3 years old. So far, I've not experienced this problem again.

When driving at normal speeds in a 2001 F-250 sd 5. 4 liter, slowed to make a stop and then proceeded on and there was a loud pop and the truck started running rough and making a lot of noise from under the hood. It turned out that a spark plug had blown out of the cylinder wall causing the noise and rough running. These plugs had just bee replaced about 1 year ago. The truck had to be towed to a repair shop almost 100 miles to be repaired. From what I understand from my mechanic this is an ongoing problem with this engine.

I own a 2001 Ford f 250 super duty with a 6. 8 liter v10 this is the second time now that it has blown out a sparkplug while driving down the road at a high speed they were not the same plug and they are original motorcraft plugs . Both times you smell alot of gas that could cause a fire.

Faulty cylinder head on a 6. 8l v-10 2001 F-250. Head blew and it started to sound like a riding lawn mower. I am a 3rd generation Ford owner, if Ford wants to be Ford tough then they need to fix Ford defect no need for a truck that hasn't pulled a heavy load to have such a fubar engine defect. Makes me want to switch to foreign truck>.

I have a 2001 Ford f250 with a 6. 8l v10. It has 149,489 miles on it. I am no shade tree mechanic, I have rebuilt engines, transmissions and trouble shoot cpu?s . I was driving down the road and came to a traffic light then made a right hand turn. As soon as I made the turn the #4 spark plug blew out. My father has a 2002 f250 with the 6. 8l v10 and his blew out the #1 and about 300 miles later it blew out the #5 plug. It caught on fire when it blew out the #5. This is not right!! there have been to many complaints about these trucks with the same problem. The cause is not due to incorrect torque on the plug. But due to a combination of two things, 1. The amount of threads that hold the plug in place. 2 the amount of compression that the engine produces.

Spark plug spit from motor smashing coil pack. 5. 4 liter triton motor. This has happened three more times. I have lost four plugs to this engineering disaster. At a cost of one dealer repair, and time off work to repair the other three. Once I had to be towed over fifty miles. After what I have read, their should be a remedy to this problem. Why not!.

Ford f250 with a v10 engine. Spark plug blew out.

5. 4 motor spark plugs keep blowing out. This is a problem with the older ones and newer ones as well Ford should make it right with the consumers.

Rotting oil pan.

I was driving home Friday january8th at 7:30 pm when my spark plug blew out of motor while driving, shooting fuel out of cylinder as coil was still connected and arcing on motor. I lost power and had to get to side of road I could not fix because threads of cylinder head were damaged when blowout occurred. Fortunatly this happened within a couple mile of my home, if this were to occur on highway with traffic around the loss of power and potential for fire would have been very dangerous!.

Spark plug blew out.

The Ford f250 truck (2001) was parked outside of heb grocery store for approximately 30 minutes when witnesses saw sparks shooting out from underneath the vehicle seconds before it caught fire. The entire engine compartment burned and began to consume the cab before the fire department put out the fire. The Ford f250 cruise control was used the previous two days and was having intermittent problems during a trip (~900 miles).

6 months ago my Ford F-250 super duty crew cab v-10 blew out the 3rd spark plug back on the passenger's side. After reading about many other people having the same problem I went to my Ford dealer who told me it happens on these engines but there isn't any recall nor would they pay for the repair. Today the second plug back on the passenger side blew out. I smelled a strong gas odor and feel lucky not to have had a fire either time. Now do I have Ford repair this one and just wait for the other 8 to blow? Ford needs to resolve this issue!.

We have a f250 2001 v10 pickup that has had 2 spark plug ejection from the drivers side head of the engine. This we were told by the mechanics at our local Ford dealer shop at our 2 diff Ford dealers is inherent in all triton motors. This head problem should be aa safety recall. When the second one happened we were 200 miles from home and had to smell gas fumes for 200 miles to get it back to the dealer to get it repaired. Luckily the spark plug had been ejected from the coil assembly if it had stayed on it would have started a fire. There is a serious defect in the cylinder head and from the many mechanics that I have spoken to they all state it is from only 2 or 3 threads per spark plug holding the plugs in place. Please recall all trition motors to have this taken care of.

My Ford F-250 had been parked outside my sons home for approx 2 hrs. When a neighbor informed me that it was engulfed in flames. The fire dept. Was called to extinguish it. There was nothing salvageable.

In late December 2008 I had all my spark plugs replaced by 1st choice automotive. By the end of January 2009 one of the sparks plugs shot out of the engine. They came and towed my truck to their shop and put in a helicoil. Once again at beginning of March the same spark plug shot out. The shop tells me that Ford has a service bulletin on it. The bulletin says to replace the cylinder head. I called al packer Ford to confirm what first choice automotive. They said Ford does have a service bulletin on this defect and agreed along with the shop that I should replace my cylinder head. I feel that if Ford knows that they are having a problem with these cylinder heads then they should repair it. I should not have to pay to fix a problem that they already know about. Any help you can give is appreciated.

I have a 2001 Ford F-250 with the triton 5. 4l v8. The problem I have is the spark plugs blowing out I have had 3 total sense March. The first one happened at about 120,000 miles in March there is a slight "ticking" noise that comes from the engine then the boom from the spark plug blowing out with a sudden loss of power. The 1st to go was the number 7cylinder followed by number 1 and finally number 3 cylinders. The second and third happened about 200 miles from each other at the 143,000 mile mark this weekend. Friday August 29 the second one blew out on the interstate going normal speed with no indication of a problem. The truck was towed to wade Ford in smyrna to be repaired. The truck was repaired with in several hours and I was on the road again $750 later. I was headed to florida at the time and still made the trip. On Sunday the 31st the third plug blew out leaving me on the side of the road in alabama, again with no indication of a problem. This seems to be a repetitive problem that I have had, the truck has not been abused and has had regular maintenance. The engine has never been stressed or strained as tends to happen with superduty trucks. I have read a lot on the internet of the problem affecting many others around the country,many with the same order of plugs "blowing-out". The dealership does not seem to recognize the problem, and say they have never seen it happen. This is a Ford problem that they are not dong anything about. Its a costly problem for the owners for a problem that they can not see coming or prevent. Is there anything that can be done?.

I have experienced 2 spark plug blow outs on my Ford f250 with a 5. 4l engine leaving me stranded out of state twice. I live in ohio and I had my first spark plug blow out in w virginia while en route to s carolina for vacation. The second incident was last year in pennsylvania. Now I have another plug about to blow out!.

Pin size hole in right side of engine block.

A spark plug just blew out of my cylinder head on my F-250 pick up truck. It is completely wrong for a plug just to let go out of the head this way. It could have cause a fire or a wreck.

On the way to work today, my 2001 Ford F-250 blew a spark plug. When this happened, I called a mechanically inclined friend to get his first impression (to avoid being ripped off by the dealership) and he could not fathom it. I thought it strange that when I called a dealerships service department, the technician identified the problem immediately from the sound he heard over the cell phone. I had never heard of such a problem before, so I decided to look it up on the internet and am appalled at how often this has happened to other people and the potential fire risk. This is too common, too expensive to repair, and sounds as if a better head design could completely alleviate the problem. Something should be done before a fire kills someone.

I have a 2001 Ford F-250 with a triton v10 engine when I was driving I had a spark plug blow out of the engine block and was laying on top of the engine sparking. I have sent an email to Ford and when they replied to me they said that there was nothing that they could do about it and that it was not a safety issue. Well I my self feel that it is a safety issue when there is an open spark on top of the engine sparking next to the fuel line. I have done research on this topic for a long time hoping that it would not happen to me well it has happened and I am afraid to drive my truck now that I see that there is a spark next to a fuel line. Ii really hope that people will not have to die from this defective aluminum head that Ford uses on these engines to prove that it is truly a safety issue. Not to mention that there are Ford owners all around the world that are having to pay thousands of dollars to fix something that is not at all their fault.

Spark plug blow out of the cylinder head.

Sept. 07; my Ford 01 f250t. Cab 4+4 with the 5. 4 l triton motor, blew out of the engine cylinder head its first of 3 spark plugs, on July 4th 09 it blew out 2 more; I had just gotten one fixed and picked up my truck and did not make it out of the parking lot. When the first one blew I was coming down a steep hill with a pop-up trailer in tow, I had my family with me, wife and 2 girls age 6 and 8. When it blew it sounded like a cannon under the hood, I almost lost control, after a 4 hr. Wait for a tow truck and a couple days at the dealer, and 600. 00 later, I got my truck back, no further problems til 7-4-09 when 2 more blew. . I have went online and there are several stories about this happening to this motor and two other models, ages between '99 and '04. The problem is that Ford engineers did not put enough threads in their "aluminum head" only 3 threads and the spark plug has about 12. The other thing that happens when the spark plug blows out it takes the coil pack which is mounted directly above the plug another 100. 00 to the equation. I talked to Ford but they do not care, they would not even help me out with the labor to fix the problem which entails drilling out all the remaining cylinders and inserting heli-coils, at the tune of 1350. 00 at the dealer. This is a very prevalent problem, and I can not believe there has not been a re-call. . . .

Spark plugs blown out of engines 2001 Ford f- 250 . Both side of the engine.