hey any of you know about the power stroke engines, i was driving home from school yesterday and the thing just died. it's the 6.0. turns over fine, it's like when my gmc lost the fuel pump. disappointing when a truck with 50,000 miles breaks. it has been pretty cold so maybe the fuel? but it is winterized what ever that is.

 

Sandman.....
Have them put it on a diagnostic computor at the dealership.....
It should give a code for what's wrong...... when ya find out what's up see if you can fix it or have them fix it......

It might be the crank sensor........

 

6.0 p/s are known for ecu controller having issues in cold temps i would recomend taking to a cert Ford p/s dealer to have it checked out!

 

if u got a truck thats winterized then u cant drive it lol, but of course it is a FORD so noone will be surprised [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] haha j/j

 

well as soon as the foot of snow is plowed off the road, the tow truck will come and get it, i already called the dealer. they seemed all to happy to get it, that is what concerned me. well maybe it is 9 inchs of snow, but when i was shoveling i thought it must be 2 foot.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

so while shoveling snow i decide to get my books out of the truck and decide to try another start, and it fires up. guess a visit to the dealer is still in order but, i am wondering if water mite have froze in a line.

 

Winterized fuel sometimes means very little. I drive a powerstroke 6 liter and get winterized fuel. A co-worker also gets fuel at wal-mart where I do but does nothing to their winterized fuel. I use powerservice in the fuel and re-winterize it. The other day when it was cold he fueled up and made it a couple of miles when it started to gel on his duramax. He was able to limp it at idle to a local dealer where they left it inside for the day and ungelled the fuel. Some powerservice added and he was good to go. I would use some anti-gel and run it. If the powerstroke was hurt I doubt it would have started after it died the other day. Just my 2 cents.

 

Ok, well apparently I live where it don't get "that" cold. How cold does it have to get outside, before you have to start winterizing your fuel? And what exactly happens, is this Diesel or Gas? Both, just some back ground would be cool, thanks all

 

well i don't believe it to be that cold here it ran fine in the single digits, but failed at mid twenties? although i know water freezes at 32.

 

my uncle had a 6.0 powerstroke and never had a single problem, and we live in wisconsin where she gets pretty cold, -40 yesterday with the windchill !! and it never had a fuel related problem.