1.9

hardly worth mentioning
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
88,000 miles

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problem #1

Mar 052005

Excursion 4WD 8-cyl Diesel

  • Automatic transmission
  • 88,000 miles
While driving a powerstroke diesel Ford truck, the "cam position sensor" can fail without warning. This shuts the engine off and your power brakes and steering. Very hard to control. The Ford dealers don't always diagnose like in my case I left the dealership and it shut off in traffic. I paid $800 for a repair I didn't need. I have been researching this since March and have discovered that this is the most common part failure on the 7.3 Ford powerstroke diesel engine. The same basic design is used from 1994 to 2003.

- Enumclaw, WA, USA

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