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    Sad Day for me yesterday

    Well due to financial constraints:( and ever rising fuel costs:rant:rant:rant i had to trade the PSD :eek::eek:in and buy a small gas SUV but i did stick with ford and my wife loves to drive it. OOh it is an 08 escape 4x4 with the 2.3l I4. ya for milage and cheaper gas. i just wish it was...
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    Turbo Question

    You know whats funny is that is what was wrong. :doh::doh:i had gone a year+ since i owned the truck and never changed the filter :doh::doh::CRAZYso i changed it on sunday and low and behold things are whistleing good again and have the power back
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    Turbo Question

    How can you tell if the turbo is starting to go these last couple days it seems as if i have to put more pedal into itand it doesent sound like it wistles as much or it does it later in the rpm's instead of at like 1.8k. but it could be my imagination because i have been hearing noises that i...
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    Tranny Question

    that was my original thought too but they said if i change it it could cause the trans to fail from sediment getting stirred up and crap like that I done know what to do.
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    Tranny Question

    ok i bought my truck with 114k miles on it and was told as part of the check that fluids were changed if needed now i don't know what the requirements are for the tranny but when i gelled up the other day :rant(see other thread for that discussion) i was told that my x-fer cased needs fluid...
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    Oil eater?

    at 198K i would be leaning towards to injector o-rings but its cheaper to have the turbo checked first unless you can do the injectors yourself
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    gelled up yesterday

    had some as shown in quote but it was the smaller bottle and it didnt work enough but at least it alowed me to run and not freeze
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    gelled up yesterday

    it was at the TA off of interstate 80 and 29 in council bluffs ia. but i dont think that was the only place because its is blended at the distribution point and they service alot of stations
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    gelled up yesterday

    had the small bottle of that put it in filter bowl and poured the rest in the tank didnt really help it was still gelled by the time i got to the dealership 3.5 hours later. even put in a new fuel filter. but at least i was able to restart and keep it running at idle so i didnt freeze couldnt go...
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    gelled up yesterday

    Son of a :soap my truck gelled op on me yesterday morning when it was -9 with a -30wc and it did it in the worst way in the tank clogging the pickup. had to get a tow to the stealership to drain and clean out the tank. Stupid fuel companys switching to a lower blend too early in the season the...
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    Oil eater?

    the other possibility is injector orings (at least that is what was wrong with mine when it burned that much oil in a short time
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    REVERSE CAMERA TRIGGER WIRE

    you could tap directly into the wire that feeds the reverse lamp
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    Long crank time to start

    thats great but what was the problem
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    Stalls and stops running etc

    i posted in your other thread in the 911 forum and i had the same problem and it was the injector o-rings. changed them out and havent burned any oil since
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    Engine died on road: Sorry Long

    yea mine did the same thing and it was the injector orings i haad 4 injectors with bad rings and burned 8qts before i new about it cause it starved the hpop and would dry up and starv the injectors. I replaced mine about 5k ago and i havent burned any oil, before they went bad i would burn about...
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