2002 ford f-250 5.4l spark plug loosened and blew out of cylinder head. 3rd plug from the front on passenger side. Strong smell of gasoline. Broke the coil over plug, could have broken the fuel rail and resulted in fire. Repair cost not yet available - will attempt to fix myself as out of warranty. Cruise control also not working but this truck not included in past recall - concerned about fire hazard in cruise control also.
2002 Ford F-250 SD engine complaints
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Vehicle has quit running on several occasions, engine just dies, has been happening for about 6 months periodically. On june 2 2007 engine quit 3 times in a half hour time period,replaced camshaft sensor at my expense warranty expired on jan 1 2007. I have read of several complaints about these sensors on the internet and would like to share mine also.
I had 2 occurrences of this problem. Both times camshaft position sensor failed , causing loss of control.(engine died in traffic. 2002 ford f-250 7.3l diesel. Extreme safety hazard , especially since these trucks were for heavy towing which I did from time to time. Seemed to be widespread problem needing to be addressed.
I have a ford f-250 7.3 liter diesel truck that has stranded me, my wife and family too many times due to ford p/n f7tz-12k073-a sensor-camshaft failure. I had to purchase five of the sensors at $100 plus, and had only 59,000 miles on my truck. I just ordered two p/n f7tz-12k073-b sensor-camshaft because the current sensor failed.
#3 spark plug blew out of the head. First happened in 2004 ford service acted like he never saw it before and didn't know a solution . I had a heli coil installed, it happened 3 more times before the last time, I had all plugs heli coiled .well when #3 blew out again on 4-14-07 and could not be repaired again. I was told the entire engine should replaced as previous problems had caused excessive cylinder wear. It was being done today. Total out of pocket $ 7,000 plus 16 lost days of work rental fees.
Vehicle is a 2002 ford f-250 w/ 7.3l diesel engine. The cam position sensor (cps) failed. When it fails, the engine stalls. This means that a nearly 7400 pound vehicle suddenly has no power, including loss of power steering & brakes. The reported incident date is the date of the first failure (happened at a stop light). The second failure happened about 1 year later (while driving). When purchasing a replacement cps, the parts guy said they sell a lot of these (as in they fail often).
I have a 2002 ford f250 power stroke diesel truck. The diesel engine just shutdown as I was driving on a major road in memphis tn. I lost power steering and brakes but was able to avoid an accident because I muscled the steering wheel and the brakes to get my truck off the road into a parking lot. Fortunately I was in the outside lane and not traveling at 65 MPH or the accident could have been very serious. I am told that the problem is the cps although I just found that out today. The truck has been stalling intermittently at stop lights and sputtering on the interstate so I had a hard time diagnosing the problem.
Truck started cutting off randomly. Truck finally quit running on major street was able to get it off the road coasting. Cps was replaced and problem was corrected. Old part may still be available.
I have my truck at the dealership today and after diagnostic they find out that my problem is caused by the cam sensor. My problem start about two weeks a go when my truck just with no alerts/lights just shut off on the middle of the road but on tuesday 24th of 2007 I was driving on an small road I'm pulling a 6x12 cargo trailer when my truck did it again but this time because my trailer on the back was very difficult to drive with no power steering and no brakes. I did a search just now and found out that is a problem that ford is aware off and they just don't want to admit please advice me to what I need to do. Dealer estimate to fix the problem is about $500.00 labor and parts.
Cam position sensor failure.
I was driving down the highway at approx 65 MPH when all of a sudden I heard a pop and lost engine power. I pulled over and looked under the hood of the truck and observed a sparkplug lying in the engine compartment and the wireharness for it was torn loose. It was clear that a sparkplug had rotated loose causing it to come out of engine which caused sudden engine failure at highway speeds. The sparkplug which rotated loose, tore out the last 3 threads of the sparkplug hole in the cylinder head and destroyed the sparkplug wire harness. The truck was brought to the dealership on a flat bed truck. The cylinder head had to be removed and a helicoil put in to replaced the torn out thread for the failed sparkplug hole. All sparkplugs had to be replaced with new ones. A new sparkplug wireharness was installed. I observed that the ceramic portion of the sparkplug rotated independantly of the treaded part of the sparkplug body which would allow rotation of the sparkplug body independant of the ceramic portion. I do not have the sparkplug that rotated loose.
I own a 2002 ford f250 7.3l power stroke diesel. On 10-20-06 the cps failed in a rainstorm. My wife (7 months pregnant) was driving and was nearly involved in a crash because when the failure occurred all electronics died as did the motor. This rendered the power steering and power brakes useless. This problem could have caused a fatality if not to my wife but other drivers as well. The truck stranded my wife on the side of a country road for 2 hrs. Waiting for a tow service. The vehicle had to be towed and the cps replaced before the truck would restart.
No warning , the spark plug just blew out of the cylinder head with a loud bang while driving down the road. Ford motor company denied responsibility and placed the blame on one of it's dealers who previously had replace an ignition coil on a different cylinder. Neither party wanted to accept responsibility for the repair cost. This vehicle is used for business purpose and it gets expensive when it is not in service. After a week of phone calls and correspondence between the dealer and ford and getting no where I had a local mechanic repair the vehicle a my cost.
2002 ford f-250, exhaust leak developed just after 50,000 miles. Right side manifold had split. Ford refused to warranty it, even though it was only 4 1/2 years into a 5 yr/ 50,000 mile emissions warranty. There is a recall on the mounting studs that changes them to stainless steel. They have a problem with the factory studs rotting out. They also have made improvements to the holes in the manifold. They were enlarged to resist cracking. Both manifolds had to be replaced along with the broken studs. All old parts are in my possession. Otherwise the truck is in like new condition.
Engine stalling truck shuts down, all power is lost.
Failure of engine heli-coil in 2002 ford f-250 triton 5.4l gasoline engine. Failure occurred at 89,000 miles. Failure occurred upon startup. Vehicle towed to dealer and heli-coil rethreaded for $1,000. Subsequent research on the web indicates this problem is extremely common in this engine and due to manufacturing/design flaw.
2002 ford f250 diesel truck on interstate 25 in denver. Proceeding at 70 MPH in middle lane in heavy fast traffic and suddenly everything shut down. No power, no electrical, no brakes, no steering, very dangerous situation in rush hour traffic. Had it towed. This is the second time the cam sensor has just quit within 1.5 years at $500 cost to replace each time. But, I could have been seriously injured. I believe this justifies a recall to prevent someone from being seriously hurt. Cam sensor!!!
Truck (2002 ford f-250 powerstroke) engine randomly quits during braking or low/no acceleration. This causes loss of power brakes and steering. Braking and low acceleration occur in intersections frequently I have discovered. Truck will restart and problem may or may not return immediately. I took it to a dealership who said they could not duplicate the event and the codes set by the PCM were "unrelated". I took it to the dealer a total of three times for this problem. I read on the internet (www.dieselstop.com) that this symptom was frequently caused by a bad cps sensor. I went to an international engine (maker of the ford powerstroke) dealer and bought a new cps which resolved the problem. I have the old part for inspection if needed. This problem is dangerous. If pulling my trailer, loss of assisted brakes and steering could quickly become catastrophic.
Two times it died while driving the third I was idling talking to a friend and it just died and would not restart.
Dt: the contact stated while driving 15-20 MPH, there was a loud popping sound. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who determined the head, spark plug and ignition coil on the spark plugs needed to be replaced. While searching the internet for information related to the defect on the vehicle, a case action suit in california was observed against the manufacturer.
The cps (camshaft position sensor) failed on my 2002 f250 ford powerstroke while driving. This resulted in very hard steering and very poor braking ability. If I had been towing my fifth wheel the situation could have been very serious. I later found that the failure of the cps is very common on ford powerstrokes from 1999 through 2003.
I was making a left turn when I heard a pop,pop, pop. I blew out #3 spark plug in my 2002 f250. It has 72,000 miles on it. I chose to have it repaired rather than replacing the head(600$ as opposed to 3000$). The ford dealership in wausau wi. Would not repair it,they would only replace the head, and would not admit that this was a recurring problem.
#2 spark plug blown out of head while driving. Spark plug threads in head stripped out causing plug to blow out and damage coil. Truck was taken to dealer for diagnosis, dealer had to install a helicoil in head at location #2.
I have a ford 2002 f-250 super duty that the spark plug blew out f the cylinder head. This caused a very significant power loss causing the truck to slow very quickly much like applying the brakes but not using them. This caused a very near accident on a highway traveling at 50 MPH and the slowing without brake lights nearly caused an accident. After approximately 1 min of researching the problem about the accident I realized that this problem is huge !!!! To say the least. There have been countless reports of spark plugs blowing and either people being stranded to near collisions. Also I am a firefighters paramedic and my nose is no hydrocarbon meter but the levels of gasoline vapors that accumulate in a very short time. My question to that is how much vapor collects in the cab compartment and can it cause a compartment fire before the driver can safely get the vehicle to a safe area to exit the vehicle? I bring this to your attention because of my research I do not believe any letters or calling ford motor as just a vehicle owner can make ford motor company more aware of this problem. Thank you!
Dt*: the contact stated while driving at any speed, the vehicle stalled without prior warning. The engine had to remain in the off position for 15 minutes before it would restart. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for inspection.
I have a 2002 ford f-250 power stroke diesel. I was on my way to work and all of a sudden the engine just shut off as if I had turned the key off. It picked right back up almost immediately and continued to run for about a mile. Then it shut off again and did not pick back up. This was on a 4 lane highway at 55-60 MPH with no power steering and no power brakes on a 7000# truck. I managed to coast into a turn lane and got it to re-fire and moved it into a parking lot. Checked all of my electrical connections under the hood and restarted the truck. It idled fine for a while so I thought maybe a connector was loose and I had fixed the problem. I decided to continue on my way to work. I pulled back out onto the highway and no problems. I had to make a u-turn on the 4 lane highway and right in the middle of it, the truck decides to die again. Luckily, I was able to get it into neutral and re-fired before I got hit in the side by oncoming traffic. Had heard of the cps failures being a problem on the 7.3 power stroke engines so I had it towed home and replaced the cam position sensor. No problems since. I started looking on web sites to find out how many people had been having this same type failure and it seems to be a very common problem. Several web sites are recommending that the power stroke owners that have had this problem notify you all so maybe we can get the problem solved.
Camshaft position sensor (cps) has failed 3 times since I've had the vehicle. My truck has only 77,000 miles on it. When this sensor fails the truck dies instantly and will not restart. I was lucky all 3 times to not be pulling a trailer in heavy traffic.
Truck sat all night, started truck waited approx 10 min , drove approx 2 miles, truck stalled/died in the middle of intersection, brakes did not have power assist. Coasted down hill approx .5 miles before I could stop the truck. Truck cooled and restarted then died approx 2 min later. Truck was towed to local ford. Cps replaced as bad.
Truck stops running with no warning during normal operation.
When driving at 25 MPH the # 3 spark plug blew out of the cylinder head.
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