Yikes! more Ford diesel problems

From Business Week

Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday told dealers to temporarily stop selling certain 2008 F-series Super Duty diesel pickups after receiving reports of flames shooting out of the vehicle's tailpipe.

Ford said it was recalling 37,400 F-Series Super Duty trucks with 6.4-liter diesel engines. The majority of the pickups -- 29,000 -- were still on dealer lots, the automaker said.

Ford spokesman Dan Jarvis said it received three reports of flames coming from the truck's tailpipe, caused by leaking fuel that ignited in the exhaust system's diesel particulate filter near the tailpipe.

"It's really something that we noticed early on and we're moving swiftly to fix the problem," Jarvis said.

There have been no injuries or vehicle fires connected to the recall. There has been one report of a grass fire in Texas that was quickly extinguished, he said.

Jarvis said the flames could only occur in engines with leaking fluids, which he said was very rare. Two of the complaints involved leaking fuel injectors and the other involved leaks coming from a crack in the turbocharger shaft.

The automaker will have dealers upgrade software for the powertrain control module, which will power down the engine under higher-than-expected temperatures in the diesel particulate filter. Similar software updates will take place at the Louisville, Ky., plant where the trucks are built.

Jarvis said the stop sale order should only last a few days as dealers reprogram the software. Owners of the remaining 8,400 trucks will be notified about the recall in early April and will be able to have the software upgrade at no charge.

In a separate action, fewer than 10,000 of the trucks will have the battery cable rerouted to avoid chafing against a shield in the engine compartment that prevents water and mud from getting into the engine.

Ford said the recall does not affect gasoline-powered pickups or those with 6.0-liter or 7.3-liter diesel engines.[/align]

 

Oh man .... I'd be real unhappy if I owned a Ford right now. I feel bad for everyone in this case. Everyone from the poor guy who bought one and the poor people working for Ford. Things aint lookin good ...

 

yeaa thats true i have a lot of friends who love fords and after being on this forum hearing all the things that go wrong with these powerstrokes i fell they might be able to be persuaded to go CUMMINS!!!! yea i cant wait to get mine...

 

hmmm. . .sounds like this thing may be more of a problem than the 6.0h-crap. . .powering down the engine, leaking injectors, leaking turbo, and they have yet to realy hit the market.

 

Hey Drew......doesn't this sound real familiar to what we were discussing the other day? [:-]

I say, "Go ahead blind loyalists and PUMP UP THE RE-SALE VALUE OF MY RIDE!!!"

 

DOOD. . .it's a factory twin turbo. . .that means it's got twice the power!!!!!!

 

Well, I know hotrodders will pay bucks for a flamethrowing exhaust kit.
Maybe they should add a few hundred bucks to the price and call it a feature!

 

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I like the way you think!

 

What in the he^%$ are the engineers thinkin turning the 6.4 loose with problems like that. Its gonna be worse than the 6.0. I guess they use their customers for R&D. This might be the one that does ole ford in. I hate to see it happen .

 

But it's an International.........that means twice the headaches. [:-]