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Originally Posted by FrankChastain
Rob, this is along time ago, but here goes. I bought a brand new F350 crew cab PowerStroke back in 95. A great vehicle and pulled a full 35’ RV camper with it. Pull like a dream with diesel mileage at 14 mpg running @ 65 mph and 18 mpg empty. The only problem I had was in 95 Ford decided to use oil to drive the diesel pump witch created heat and when you drove for a while and stop, with it idling it would skip. Ran like a John Deer three cylinder. The folks at Long Lewis in BHM work their butt’s off trying to fix it and finally got an engineer from Ford to come down and take a look. He sent me a letter stating about the oil pump that created bubbles in the diesel fuel that caused the skip and recommended a oil supplement from Ford. It worked... They furnished me with the supplement until I sold the truck in 97. A great truck with ride, towing, looks and mileage, too. Just thought I would pass this along to ya....Frank
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Bruno Masell (not real sure on spelling) he is a comp eliminator guy. Has a tv show where they show you how to fix modify trucks. One whole episode was about the ford diesels and the pump/injector problems that they can have. EGR delete and all that stuff too I believe. They sell some kind of stuff to put in higher mileage trucks to help with problems that they are having. One product goes in the diesel and the other in the engine oil. Been so long since I have seen it I cant even remember the details of what all they did, the products that they used on the truck they fixed or even the name of the show LOL. But they fixed one up on there and from what they said it turned out good. The two biggest things you can do to make them live a long and happy life in my opinion are. 1. Keep the oil changed and do the regular maintenance. 2. Leave them alone and be nice to them. Cant tell you how many Farm kids around here get their dads truck when he gets a new one. And the first thing they do is buy a tuner and put the program in that gives it the max output it will give and smoke like a freight train, and then run the piss out of them. The next thing you know they are having problems of one sort or another or they hurt them real bad. I am in a bad spot with one right now that needs a engine due to big time damage. I was watching a friend pull his farm stock pulling tractor. They had some truck classes there too. Next thing I know one of my customers kids was out there. It was impressive what it was doing. Right up till it came apart in dramatic fashion LOL. Boy told dad it just happened going down the road. Boom she blew up dad. LOL