2002 FORD F-350 SD Engine And Engine Coolingenginediesel Problems

2002 FORD F350 SUPER DUTY QUAD CAB LE 7.3L DIESEL PARKED IN MY BACK YARD WITH THE ENGINE BLOCK HEATER PLUGGED IN. I HEARD AN EXPLOSION AND LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW. MY TRUCK WAS BURNING FROM UNDER THE HOOD. THE WHOLE FRONT END WAS ON FIRE. THE GRILL, BUMPER RUBBER, HEADLIGHTS AND INTERCOOLER BURNED AWAY. WHEN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT FINALLY PUT IT OUT YOU COULD SEE THAT ALL THE RUBBER, PLASTIC, WIRING AND BATTERIES WERE COMPLETELY BURNED AWAY. *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2002 FORD F-350 SD. THE CONTACT STATED THAT HE RECEIVED A RECALL NOTICE FOR THE ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING: ENGINE: DIESEL (NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID 07V553000). THE MANUFACTURER STATED THAT THEY WOULD NOT REIMBURSE THE COST TO HAVE THE VEHICLE SHIPPIED TO THE DEALER. THE CONTACT FELT THAT THE MANUFACTURER SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SHIPPING COST. THE CURRRENT MILEAGE WAS 62,000 AND THERE HAD BEEN NO FAILURE TO DATE UPDATED 04-09-08 *BF

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2002 FORD F350 SUPER DUTY. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER TO HAVE A SAFETY RECALL REPAIRED. AT THAT TIME, THE CONTACT WAS INFORMED THAT THE VEHICLE NEEDED TO HAVE AN OIL CHANGE. ALSO, THE OIL PAN NEEDED TO BE CHANGED BECAUSE IT WAS RUSTING AND PITTING. THE COST TO REPLACE THE OIL PAN ON HER DIESEL ENGINE IS $2,399.82. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE REAR UNIVERSAL HAD TO BE REPLACED AT 27,770 MILES AND THEN HAD TO BE REPLACED A SECOND TIME, IN ADDITION TO THE CARRIER BEARINGS AT 47,325 MILES. THE VEHICLE WAS UNDER WARRANTY THE FIRST TIME, BUT THE CONTACT PAID FOR THE REPAIR THE SECOND TIME. THE RECALL NUMBER WAS UNKNOWN. THE CURRENT AND FAILURE MILEAGES WERE 58,347. UPDATED 02-04-08. *KB THE CONSUMER STATED REPLACED WEATHERSTRIP, REPLACED REAR U JOINT, DISC PADS REPLACE, AND REPLACED BROKEN CONSOLE LID. UPDATED 02/04/08 *TR

CAMSHAFT POSITION SENSOR FAILED ON MY '02 FORD F-350 POWER STOKE DIESEL. *TR

I OWN A 2002 F350 FORD DIESEL TRUCK. I JUST HAD TO PAY $2221.70 TO REPLACE A RUSTED OUT OIL PAN. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SIMPLE, LOW COST JOB BUT SINCE FORD USED DEFECTIVE METAL IN THEIR OIL PANS CAUSING THEM TO RUST OUT AND THE CROSS MEMBER BETWEEN THE FRAME, THE WHOLE ENGINE HAS TO BE REMOVED TO CHANGE THE PAN. EVERY DIESEL FORD TRUCK OWNER WILL HAVE TO REPLACE THEIR OIL PAN WITHIN 6 YEARS OR IT WILL BEGIN LEAKING CAUSING THE ENGINE TO SHUTDOWN ANYWHERE. HOW CAN I BEGIN A CLASS ACTION RECALL AT FORD'S EXPENSE FOR THIS UNNECESSARY AND VERY COSTLY JOB ? *JB

CAMSHSFT POSITION SENSOR (CPS) FAILED ON MY FORD F-350, 2002 MODEL, 7.3 LITER DIESEL ENGINE. THE FAILURE OCCURRED GRADUALLY, WITH SIX UNINTENDED ENGINE SHUTDOWNS. THREE SHUTDOWNS WERE AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS, THREE WHILE PARKED. DATE IS APPROXIMATED; ODOMETER READING APPROXIMATELY 60000 MILES. I WILL UPDATE WHEN I GET HOME.

VEHICLE STALLED WITHOUT WARNING AND WOULD NOT RESTART. FORTUNATELY, FAILURE HAPPENED JUST BEFORE I PULLED OUT OF A PARKING LOT OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE BEEN STUCK LENGTHWISE ACROSS ROAD IN THE MIDDLE OF A LEFT TURN. PART THAT FAILED WAS THE CAMSHAFT POSITION SENSOR. DON'T KNOW IF I STILL HAVE THE ORIGINAL PART. AFTER PART WAS REPLACED VEHICLE STARTED WITHOUT PROBLEM. *TR

I WAS DRIVING MY 2002 FORD F-350 DIESEL WHEN THE ENGINE SUDDENLY SHUT DOWN. THERE WAS A DUMP TRUCK BEHIND ME WHICH WAS FORCED OFF OF THE ROAD IN ORDER TO AVOID HITTING MY VEHICLE. I WAS ABLE TO RESTART THE VEHICLE ONLY TO HAVE IT STALL AGAIN. AFTER RESEARCHING THE PROBLEM I FOUND THAT THE CAUSE WAS A FAULTY CAMSHAFT POSITION SENSOR WHICH, ALTHOUGH IT APPEARED TO BE A RECURRING PROBLEM ON FORD DIESELS FORD HAS NEVER NOTIFIED ME AS SUCH. WHEN I CONTACTED A DEALER REGARDING THE PROBLEM THEY SAID THAT THERE WAS NOTHING THAT THEY COULD DO AS THE VEHICLE WAS 6 MONTHS PAST THE 100,000 MILES 5 YEAR ENGINE WARRANTY , I AM STILL UNDER THE 100,000 MILES. I HAVE HAD THE TRUCK IN FORD DEALERSHIPS NUMEROUS TIMES AND HAVE BEVER BEEN NOTIFIED BY FORD PERSONNEL AS TO THE LIKLEYHOOD THAT THIS PART HAS KNOWN PROBLEMS...

DEFECTIVE CAM POSITION SENSOR CAUSED VEHICLE TO STALL ON FREEWAY. REPLACED CPS. *TR

2002 FORD F-350, WITH 7.3L POWER STROKE DIESEL .FAILURE OF THE "CPS". *JB

2002 FORD SUPER DUTY - 7.3L POWERSTROKE TURBO DIESEL. STARTED OUT WITH INTERMITTENT SPUTTERING. WOULD NOT START ONE TIME - DEALER ASSURED US IT WAS JUST LOW ON FUEL. SAT FOR A WHILE AND THEY ADDED A COUPLE GALLONS OF FUEL. IT RESTARTED OK. STALLED A WEEK OR SO LATER AND TURNED ON THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT. FORTUNATELY, WE WERE NOT TOWING ANYTHING LIKE WE WERE WITH OUR OTHER TRUCK. STILL, IT WAS VERY DANGEROUS HAVING A DUAL WHEEL TRUCK DIE OUT ON THE ROAD. SCANNED THE CODE - CAMSHAFT POSITION SENSOR FAILED - REPLACED. VERY COMMON AND DANGEROUS PROBLEM ON THESE TRUCKS. *TR

MOTOR DIED IN MIDDLE OF INTERSECTION. *JB

DRIVING MY 2002 FORD SUPERDUTY F350, NO WARNING, DRIVING IN TRAFFIC AND TRUCK DIED IN A TUNNEL. RESULT WAS CAM POSITION SENSOR. OVER $400 IN PARTS, LABOR AND TOWING BILL. CAUSED TRAFFIC TO SLOW DOWN AND GO AROUND ME. *TR

LOSS OF THE CPS SENSOR ON MY 02 FORD F350. THE SENSOR WENT OUT WHILE I WAS TRAVELING DOWN I87. I WAS ABLE TO PULL OFF THE ROAD BUT THE FAILURE LEFT ME STRANDED WITH NO CELL SERVICE IN THE MIDDLE OF A NORTHEASTER ON 4/16/07. *TR

TRUCK WOULD PICKUP EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE THEN FINALLY I WAS GETTING OFF THE INTERSTATE AND IT DIED. THE CPS HAD FAILED I PUT A NEW ONE IN AND IT RUNS FINE. *TR

CPS (CAMSHAFT POSITION SENSOR) FAILURE ON 2002 FORD SUPERDUTY POWERSTROKE. I NOTICED MY ENGINE CUTTING OUT SLIGHTLY AT TIMES. THEN MY CPS FAILED LEAVING MY VEHICLE DEAD AT MULTIPLE TRAFFIC LIGHTS BEFORE I COULD FINALLY CHANGE THE PART. *TR

I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY AND MY TRUCK DIED GOING 55 MPH AND IT IS HARD TO STEER AND STOP AND F-350 WHEN THE MOTOR IS DEAD. THE FIX WAS REPLACE THE CAM SHAFT POSITION SENSOR. I KNOW OF THREE OTHER FRIENDS THE SAME THING HAPPEN TO, LUCKILY NO ONE GOT HURT WHEN THERE TRUCK DIED GOING DOWN THE HIGHWAY. *TR

I HAVE 63000 MILES ON MY 2002 F350 SUPER DUTY PICK-UP (7.3L DIESEL). MY TRUCK STALLED 3 TIMES WHILE DRIVING, ONCE WHILE TURNING ACROSS TRAFFIC. THE FAULT CODES INDICATED AN INTERMITTENT CAMSHAFT POSITION SENSOR. I REPLACED THE SENSOR MYSELF, AND THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN CORRECTED. I HAVE THE OLD SENSOR AVAILABLE. THIS IS A KNOWN PROBLEM AMONG FORD TRUCK OWNERS. STALLING WHILE DRIVING CAUSES LOSS OF POWER STEERING, LOSS OF POWER BRAKES, AND OBVIOUS STOP IN TRAFFIC. *NM

OUT OF STATE ON VACATION. SHUT VEHICLE OFF AND THEN IT WOULDN'T START. CALLED FORD WARRANTY - ONLY FORD DEALER IN AREA COULDN'T GET IT IN UNTIL THE FOLLOWING WEEK. TALKED TO FRIEND THAT IS A DIESEL MECHANIC WHO ADVISED THAT THE CPS ALWAYS GOES BAD IN 7.3'S AND TO REPLACE IT. LOCATED ONE AT NAPA FOR $190.00 - BORROWED TOOLS AND INSTALLED. TRUCK THEN STARTED RIGHT UP AND HAS RUN FINE SINCE. ONLY 46,000 MILES ON TRUCK!! TOOK OLD CPS TO LOCAL FORD DEALER ALONG WITH BILL AND AM ATTEMPTING TO RECOVER EXPENSES UNDER WARRANTY AS THE MANUAL SAYS IT IS COVERED. LOCAL DEALER WASN'T VERY OPTIMISTIC. *JB

THIS HAPPENED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, BUT MY F-350 POWER STROKE HAD THE DREADED CAM POSITION FAILURE. MY DAUGHTER WAS STUCK AT AN INTERSECTION IN 5 O'CLOCK TRAFFIC AND THE TRUCK WAS DEAD. I CARRIED A SPARE SENSOR IN THE GLOVE BOX KNOWING THAT THIS IS A VERY COMMON FAILURE. IMAGINE BEING IN THE LEFT LANE OF THE INTERSTATE WHEN IT DECIDES TO FAIL. LOSE POWER STEERING AND POWER BRAKES. READ ABOUT CPS FAILURES ON "THEDIESELSTOP.COM". COULD FAIL WHEN TURNING LEFT IN FRONT OF ON COMING TRAFFIC. I FEEL THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS FLAW IN THIS MOTOR. *JB

MY VEHICLE IS A 2002 FORD F-350 XLT 4X4 POWER STROKE DIESEL...AUTO TRANS. THE DIESEL ENGINE UNEXPECTEDLY SHUT DOWN DUE TO A DEFECTIVE " SYNCHRONIZER " ( CAM POSITION SENSOR OR " CPS" ) WHILE TOWING A HEAVY BOAT & TRAILER ( 9,800 LBS ), THE ENGINE SUDDENLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY SHUT OFF FOR NO APPARENT REASON. WHEN THIS HAPPENS THERE IS NO POWER STEERING OR BRAKES. THIS MAKES THE TRUCK HARD TO STEER AND STOP, AND IS A VERY DANGEROUS CONDITION,ESPECIALLY WHILE TOWING A TRAILER. THE FIRST TIME IT HAPPENED, I NARROWLY MISSED HITTING A TELEPHONE POLE, AS I DID NOT KNOW THE ENGINE HAD DIED UNTIL I CONTINUED TO STEER THE VEHICLE AROUND A SLIGHT CORNER AND IT WOULD NOT TURN UNTIL I EXERTED HEAVY EFFORT ON THE STEERING WHEEL. ( NO POWER STEERING WHEN THE ENGINE DIES) A WOMAN WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO STEER THIS VEHICLE WHEN...

2002 F350 DIESEL, I BOUGHT THIS VEHICLE NEW IN AUGUST 2003 AND HAVE PRESENTLY 93,000 MILES. THE OIL PAN TO THE MOTOR HAS RUSTED THROUGH. I FEEL THIS ITEM SHOULD LAST THE LIFE OF THE VEHICLE. I HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH A COUPLE OF FORD DEALERS AND THEY BOTH SAID THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THIS TRUCK. I WAS QUOTED $1600.00 TO HAVE THIS PROBLEM TAKEN CARE OF. THERE HAS BEEN NO RECALLS AS OF YET TO TAKE CARE OF THIS. *JB

2002 FORD 350 DEVELOPED PROBLEMS WITH THE BRAKING SYSTEM.*MR THE CONSUMER STATED EVEN UNDER MODERATE BRAKING THE FRONT ROTORS WARPED WHICH CAUSED BRAKE AND HANDLING PROBLEMS. THE BRAKES HAVE BEEN AN ONGOING PROBLEM. THE BELT TENSIONER AND BATTERY WAS REPLACED. THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT ILLUMINATED.*JB

I HAVE A FORD F-350 DIESEL THAT AND I HAVE EXPERIENCED AND EXTREME LOSS OF FUEL ECONOMY. I HAVE GONE FROM 15 MPGTO 8MPG. FORD SAID THAT THEY CANNOT FIND ANY PROBLEMS WITH THE ENGINE. THE ENGINE ALSO OVERHEATS WHILE PULING A LIGHT TRAILER. THE "WAIT TO START LIGHT" ALSO STAYS ON. THE DEALER SAID THEY ARE AWARE OF THAT PROBLEM.*AK