I have a well maintained truck with av10 engine. I drove the truck home and parked it. The next time I started the truck the crankshaft and two rods broke. I use this truck with a camper. If this had happened on the highway with the camper on, a serious accident would have resulted. I cannot even get anyone to tell me why this happened to prevent it from happening again. I talked to ford in detroit and to a dealer who services the car. The engine only had 75000 miles on it. This is not the only case I have heard of this happening to v10 engines. I think the question of why this happened is reasonable and yet I cannot get an answer. This is safety issue. Thank you.
1999 Ford F-250 SD engine complaints
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1999 f250 with a v-10. Spark plugs have blown out twice and where repaired by dealer. Expensive! One of the repaired plugs blew out again. Had to have head removed and taken to a machine shop. I have contacted ford on each occasion and they claim they never heard of this problem before. It ruins an expensive coil pack each time.
1999 ford f250 super duty. Stalled several times during cold weather.. Each time in deceleration.. Twice was not able to restart truck for several minutes.. Had camshaft position sensor replaced.. Ridiculous amount of money to pay for a magnet..
There were no events leading up to the failure. I was driving to work on the interstate and all of a sudden the truck started shaking real bad, the service engine soon light came on and the engine shut down. At this point the vehicle became extremely hard to steer and the brakes were nearly useless. I was able to get off the side of the road and stop. I got the truck cranked back up and started down the road again when the same thing happened about 1/4 mile down the road. At this point I had the truck towed back to my house to try and find the problem. It was determined that the camshaft position sensor was bad and it was replaced the next day with a new one. After it was replaced the truck ran fine and has since. The old (bad) sensor is still available.
Dt: the contact states the head in the engine was defective and it blew the spark plugs into the fuel rail. The dealer was unaware of any problems and offered no free remedy. The manufacturer has not been contacted.
1999 ford f-250 triton 5.4 spark plug blew out of cylinder head. 66,000 miles.
Cps(camp position sensor has failed on a 1999 ford super duty 7.3l psd a total of 3 times. First time, son and I were turning into a walmart parking lot, and vehicle shut down and refused to restart. 13k miles on it. Dealer fixed cps. Second time traveling down interstate 95, and suddenly vehicle shut down again, while doing 75 MPH. Fortunately the truck is a manual transmission, or we would have ended up in the trees, or into the side of the semi that was passing on the left. Third time we were towing our travel trailer, and truck died on a 8% grade, there was no time to get out of the lane we were in to the shoulder before we slowed too much and caused a wreck behind us the truck now has 77k miles on it. We feel the cps failing 3x in 77k miles is exxx... The last two sensors were not under warranty and cost $250~ we have researched on the internet and found out that the cps is a very common problem, and has shown up in mileage instances ranging from 100 miles on odo. All the way to not showing up until 200k miles. We, (along with apparently thousands of other truck owners) feel that the vehicle shutting down, and losing 90% of our steering and likely 85% of brakes (on diesels you do not get a "reserve" brake boost, unlike on gas engines with vacuum), as the brake system is powered by the hydraulic pressure provided by the power steering pump!!!! We know there is no way around the brake system. However, in two of our cases. It was very scary and a very dangerous situation when the truck died. We now have a spare cps inside of the glove box inside of vehicle and proper tools to replace it ourselves should it happen again. We have heard of other people driving said trucks with 7.3l psd engines ( do not know if the 6.0l is having the same problem with the cps) of the trucks being totaled and people being seriously injured because of the cps failing. We feel that a recall, should be made... Thank you and good day....
Without prior warning, number 3 cylinder spark plug ejected violently when driving on interstate at 65 MPH - damaged coil pack and cylinder head - resulted in immediate loss of power. Vehicle returned to bishop, ca (nearest town, approx. 10 miles) and left at shop there for three days while repair completed. Repair failed a second time in february, 2005. Vehicle repaired again and subsequently sold.
Purchased used f250 super duty with 5.4 triton engine 8/18/05. Returning from 2nd camping trip 10/10/05 in st. Paul mn the truck made very loud pop & then ran like it was missing on a cylinder. Towed to dealer purchased from same day. Next day dealer service informed me it was the spark plug that blew out of the passenger side of the engine. $4600.00 to repair. Dealer 90 day warranty does not apply because it is spark plug related????? Repair is still pending, but replacement of the cylinder head & related parts is necessary.
Noticed an exhaust leak while driving, checked engine to find #3 plug had blown out of engine leaving no/stripped threads left in head rendering the engine unusable. Truck has sat for four months . Priced a bare head from ford dealer at $1,100. With cams $1,600 or a recycled engine between $1,400-2,000 plus labor. Purchased recycled engine, 5.4l, 8 cyl, sohc with 15k miles at $2000 due to cost effectiveness as opposed to the cost of replacing one head. This is without labor as I am a certified ford engine master and will do the work myself.
Dt: the contact has a rusted exhaust manifold on his 1999 ford f250 super duty and this was causing an open flame in the engine compartment when starting the vehicle. Because he had 108,000 miles on his vehicle, ford will not do anything. He noticed this around 20,000 miles. *ak the dealer told the consumer it was a design issue and they recommended replacing the bolts with brass or stainless steel bolts.
While pulling away from a stop sign, a spark plug blew out from the right side cylinder bank. Vehicle is a 1999 ford f250 sd with the 6.8 v10. After doing some searching on the net, I find that this is a very common problem with this model year. I am also finding that ford will be more than happy to charge upwards of $3000 to repair. This should be covered by ford if so many others are experiencing this same problem.
Spark plug blew out of the socket, stripping the threads and resulted in having the head re-threaded.
Spark plug blow out. Right hand side.
Right side 3rd spark plug blew out of engine, and ford new and knows about it and are not doing a --- thing about it. You cant even get a remanufactured one because there not getting them back fast enough to fix the old one. So now I am paying $3500, to fix there problem. It is wrong. I cant even pay my hospital bill and now I have to come up with $3500. Ford should be stron - up.
I own a 1999 ford f-250 super duty with the 6.8 liter v-10 engine with 55000 miles. I have suffered catastrophic engine failure due to internal corrosion of the cylinder heads caused by the engine coolant, thereby filling a combustion chamber with engine coolant and subsequently destroying a connecting rod and main bearing. I am seeking any corroborative evidence of similar cases.
We bought a truck on ebay from a dealer in texas. When we went to get it inspected in our home state of md it was discovered that this truck did not have a catalytic converter on it. There was no mention of this missing equipment or the customer exhaust on the auction. Of course to have it pass md safety inspection we had to spend over $ 700 to have it put back into the truck. My question is: is it legal for a dealer to sell a truck with out this standard equipment? If not I want to try and have them help cover the cost for this repair. Thanks for your help.
Engine cold with a slight knock/tick, as time went on tick got louder the engine went and the bearings had to replaced and the motor rebuild. While searching on-line for a rebuilt motor. I came across a form website where it looks as though other people have had the same problem.
Motor sounded like a lawn mower.the treds ripped out of the motorthat held the spark plug in $800.00 for a 50 cent fix that ford could have taken care of by using a heli coil.
My truck has 78000 miles and on 3/22/04 a spark plug blew out of the cylinder damaging the ignition coil. Ford contacted and offered no assistance. Truck has never been tuned based on ford's 100000 mile tune up recommendation. Dealer is stating I now need a very expensive new cylinder head.
Consumer states that spark plugs blewout of the cylinder, stripping the threads out of the cylinder heads, resulting in engine failure. This has occurred twice since vehicle purchased. 1st occurrence at 3900 miles, 2nd occurrence at 56000 miles.
The spark plugs were blown out of the engine. *nlm
Turbocharger bolt failure for 1999 ford powerstroke diesel
A rattling or knocking noise emitting from the engine area. Noise is extremely noticable when the engine begins to labor. I have been told it could possibly be caused from a poorly designed "y" pipe.
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Since ownership vehicle has experienced intermittent stalling problems, vehilce has been taken in for service numerous occassions without being repaired, consumer was advised that it would not be cost effective to replace random parts that may be causing the stalling problem.
Engine #3 leaking oil from left side causing smoking as it burns on exhaust manifold causing fumes to enter the vehicle resulting in the consumer feeling dizzy, lightheaded and develop a severe headache. Nlm
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