MIDNIGHT RIDER
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A friend of mine has a 1997 4x4 5-speed (or is it a 6-speed ??) with an un-adulterated PowerStroke engine.
For the last couple years, the engine has had a habit of shutting off while going down the road, just like the key had been switched OFF.
Being a manual, the wheels turning the engine usually has it re-started within a few hundred feet; unless it is moving slow or sitting still, in which case it must be re-started with the key.
So far, it has never failed to restart --- but time will tell.
There have been no less than three new crank-position sensors and a couple ?cam-position? sensors tried, all to no avail.
This dying may happen ten times in a day, or once every three months.
It may die twice today and not at all for a month.
The engine runs like a Singer sewing machine right up to the second it dies and immediately thereafter, giving no warning whatsoever.
It has been to three different Ford garages, two of them twice, and all they can say is that it will have to quit for good and be towed in to find the problem.
That is what we would like to avoid.
Does this situation seem familiar to anyone ??
What is the cure ??
Thanks.
For the last couple years, the engine has had a habit of shutting off while going down the road, just like the key had been switched OFF.
Being a manual, the wheels turning the engine usually has it re-started within a few hundred feet; unless it is moving slow or sitting still, in which case it must be re-started with the key.
So far, it has never failed to restart --- but time will tell.
There have been no less than three new crank-position sensors and a couple ?cam-position? sensors tried, all to no avail.
This dying may happen ten times in a day, or once every three months.
It may die twice today and not at all for a month.
The engine runs like a Singer sewing machine right up to the second it dies and immediately thereafter, giving no warning whatsoever.
It has been to three different Ford garages, two of them twice, and all they can say is that it will have to quit for good and be towed in to find the problem.
That is what we would like to avoid.
Does this situation seem familiar to anyone ??
What is the cure ??
Thanks.