RampageFSJ
Registered User
I bought an 03 F-250 with a 6.0 in November, it's the first diesel that I've owned. It's been going great so far but today my brother borrowed it for a few minutes and after it sat for 10 minutes or so, I went to fire it up and it would crank but it wouldn't even attempt to fire, no smoke out of the tailpipe, nothing. It was even still at operating temperature. He says that it was running fine while he was driving it, and he allowed the glow plugs to warm up before starting and everything.
We've been at below freezing temperatures all last night and all day today, so I was wondering if it was possible that there's some water or moisture in the lines that froze up. I haven't added any kind of additive that would eliminate moisture from the system yet. I took some advice from someone locally and added some Diesel 911 to the tank with about 5 gallons of new diesel and let it sit with the block heater on for about 6 hours. It still wouldn't fire when I came back.
This truck has been my DD since my other pickup is broken down, I'd really like to get this thing running before Monday so I can make it to work. Any help is extremely appreciated.
The truck has 81,000 miles, I haven't noticed any major issues driving it aside from taking longer to warm up since it's been getting colder around here, I've been driving with a little over 1/4 tank of fuel for the past few days, and I changed the oil on it last weekend for the first time and I believe that I did everything correctly with the oil change. I can give any more information as needed but I'm fairly stumped as to what the problem might be aside from the fact that it seems to be fuel related.
We've been at below freezing temperatures all last night and all day today, so I was wondering if it was possible that there's some water or moisture in the lines that froze up. I haven't added any kind of additive that would eliminate moisture from the system yet. I took some advice from someone locally and added some Diesel 911 to the tank with about 5 gallons of new diesel and let it sit with the block heater on for about 6 hours. It still wouldn't fire when I came back.
This truck has been my DD since my other pickup is broken down, I'd really like to get this thing running before Monday so I can make it to work. Any help is extremely appreciated.
The truck has 81,000 miles, I haven't noticed any major issues driving it aside from taking longer to warm up since it's been getting colder around here, I've been driving with a little over 1/4 tank of fuel for the past few days, and I changed the oil on it last weekend for the first time and I believe that I did everything correctly with the oil change. I can give any more information as needed but I'm fairly stumped as to what the problem might be aside from the fact that it seems to be fuel related.