Here is my "new" '08 F250. It is getting a new engine in her. This happened the third day of owning her. Injector hung, hydrolocked it and the rest is in the pictures.

 

looks more like it dropped a valve, sorry for your loss

 

That totally sucks! Thank God for Warranties!...........

 

WoW!!!!!!!!!

 

Uh.......oh.....I think I'm gonna pass out!!

 

Where did you buy that truck and where are you having it serviced? The reason I ask is that I traded in a 2008 F250 with 12,000 miles on it at Two Rivers Ford at the beginning of February...and your truck looks just like the truck I traded in. I think that you may have bought my old truck. If so, I wonder what the dealer did to it between the time I traded it in and the time you bought it.

BTW - The truck in my signature is still my original truck. My new truck looks just like my old one, so there was no reason to change the picture.

 

Yeah, and thank God that the dealer where he took his truck either couldn't tell he had a Superchips tuner on it or didn't care.

 

It looks like you gave your dealer some work to do.

By the looks of that picture, it looks like a ton of work.

Do you got an estimate on when it's going to be back in your hands? I know when I had my Escape, and it had it's chronic transmission blowouts, they had a person direct from Ford to fly in to NY and to examine the old transmission on site, but that was the third time. I think they send the fourth one to them... but I wouldn't know because by the time they got the new transmission in, I was way into my F150. It took about a 21 days for each tranny swap, because they had to pull the engine and tranny out of a tiny, tight compartment (I hate FWD!)

Also, do you know if they are going to send the engine back to Ford for analysis?

 

The ****** at Ford gave them the run around on the issue. They wanted the dealer to send the valves/head to them to inspect. No one wanted to fly down. So the dealer sent about 20 pics to them. That apparently shut them up!
No one can pinpoint the "problem" only speculate. Apparently the injector either stayed open and hydro locked or it starved the cylinder.
Either way it is getting a new, off the assembly line, engine. There are no re-builds or remans for this. So at least I get lucky there.

On a side note, they estimated the repair work to end up at $16,000. to $20,000. clams.

 

It really hurts my feelings to see my old truck in pieces like that...

 

Hurts your feelings? Imagine mine with paying for it and three days later, this!

But imagine Fords feelings at a bill of 16-20 grand to fix a know issue with injectors.

 

It doesn't hurt near as much as you think. In all honesty having a handful or repairs even of this magnatude is much cheaper than a recall or a campaign. A campaign for the 6.4L injectors can easily run into the millions.


Now from a customer stand point this is a really crappy way of doing things, but businesswise its very good. We do the exact same thing with combines at times where we know that a relatively small number of machines will have a particular failure. Its a case of hope that they either don't fail or when they do just pony up for the fix. The flip side is that if we know the failure rate is going to be higher then it gets fixed via a campaign. I've seen warranty claims in the $50k range before, though that one was because of a customer screw up.

 

Is it seriously your old truck? That would be FREAKY! Have them throw a V10 gas in there since gas is a lot cheaper than diesel these days

 

FreekyFX4 - you shouldn't put grenades in the trucks your tradin' in. Other folks have to drive them after they buy 'em you know....shame on you!

 

Hell no. The 6.4 goes back in there. I can (but don't) want to afford the diesel. Also the V-10 is weak and slow.
Besides the V-10 has the same injector issue plaguing all of the trucks.
Funny thing is this has happened to me before. Last year they put a new 5.4 in my 05 truck. Injector #8 locked open and hydro locked the engine. Same mech working on this as did the other one.