2004 Ford F-350: hesitation when accelerating

Filed Jun 16, 2014 · Engine · 100,000 miles · VA

Tl* the contact owns a 2004 ford f-350. The contact stated while driving various speeds the vehicle would suddenly hesitate and the speed would decelerate. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who diagnosed that the injector control pressure sensor was faulty. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 100,000.

Filed Jan 26, 2012 · Electrical, Engine · 89,000 miles · UT

My 2004 ford f-350 6.0 diesel. Hesitate or surges while driving, and/or the engine may stall while driving at all speeds including highway speed, will lose power steering and brakes and when at a stop it will lunge forward. The engine may or may not restart after stall. I feel that this is a great safety concern I have almost lost control of my vehicle on a few occasions while towing my boat and going around corners. I have heard of other people having the same problems with their 2004 6.0 diesels. Please help!

Filed Jul 14, 2005 · Electrical, Engine · 1,000 miles · VA

Dt: under acceleration between 25 and 45 MPH the vehicle loses power. There is hesitation when vehicle accelerates. It is as though it bogs down and can not gain any speed. Also, a large amount of black smoke was expelled from the exhaust. When this occurs the truck comes to crawl in middle of traffic, and happens mostly in stop and go traffic, as well as on interstate. Took vehicle to a dealer 4 times for this problem within 28,000 miles. Dealership could not find anything wrong, but did trouble shooting repairs to the computer, and then replaced the turbo. Dealer admitted they did not know how to fix or diagnose this problem. Consumer has not contacted the manufacturer at this time. No other repairs were done or issues outside of this probekm occurred.

Filed May 27, 2005 · Engine · 11,000 miles · CA

Incident occurred in the afternoon, the temp was about 70 degrees. The truck was loaded with my family (5 including myself); we were traveling over a hill at about 50 MPH. A sign indicated a 6 percent grade. On the way up the hill, at about 2000rpm and about 45 MPH we noticed a large amount of black smoke being expelled from the tailpipe. There was no hesitation on power output at that time, then coasting down the other side of the hill the engine shut down. Fortunately we were able to narrowly avoid the traffic ahead with what little brake action I could apply. When the engine was started again, the "check engine" light came on. After being taken to the dealer the sensors were replaced on the turbocharger and other undisclosed work was done to the engine. Lately the truck has been mimicking these symptoms.

Filed Apr 28, 2005 · Transmission · 55,000 miles · MI

While driving transmission hesitated when it switched gears ,and when you would reverse it hesitated so you could back up. Metal flakes were found in the transmission fluid from in the pan. Ford dealer was aware of the problem, and transmission has to be rebuilt. Other transmissions with similar serial #'s were under recall by ford motor company, but ours wasn't recalled ,and they were unwilling to rebuild it.