95_stroker
Jefe
Im not sure if this is 6.0 specific or if it applies to all Super Duty's so I'll stick it in the general discussion forum.
My truck has been sitting in the driveway taking an extended vacation for a couple of reasons, weather has been nice enough that my wife has been driving the Mustang as her DD, I've got a Jeep for my 4x4 needs on my work commute and I havent had the need to haul much of anything for a while now so anyway make a long story short here the SD has been just relaxing that is until today. I've had some shrubs here at the new house that were begging to be gotten rid of and it seemed a great job for the pickup. I wrapped a chain around the closest one, dropped the transfer case in 4low and eased the shrub right on out
. I think it was a Greasewood but Im not certain, I am certain it is gone. Then I had two Junipers that were just over grown and in the way so I wrapped the chain around one of them and my chain wasnt long enough to get to the pickup hitch.
The shrubs and Junipers were in a raised bed over a 16" curb so I couldnt just "drive" the pickup up there. So that left me the Polaris ATV and lemme tell you what, pulling 8' tall Junipers out with an ATV is a teeth rattling experience. While I was working with the ATV I had just left the pickup idling as I thought I would be right back in it. The last time the pickup got parked it was low on fuel...... really low....
and I never really noticed it when I pulled the first shrub nor when I decided to leave it idle.
Finally got done screwing around with the landscape removal project and jumped in the pickup to make a dump run and noticed the fuel gauge at a lower position that I have EVER seen it, punched the INFO button and it told me I had 4 miles to empty.
Well, I had a 5 gallon jug of diesel in the garage that I use to run my fired space heater with so I decided to dump it in the pickup so I could at least make it to the gas station. I never did shut the engine off so the fuel gauge didnt reset itself to the newly found 5 gallons in her tummy and I pulled out on the street and the truck started to surge. Plenty of power, idled fine but about every 15 seconds or so the RPMs would drop about 200-300 revs while I was driving. I knew I wasnt out of fuel since I just dumped 5 gallons in so I pulled over and shut her down to see if it would reset the gauge. Nope, no such luck
. So off we went down the street doing 30 mph then 25, then 30 then 25 the 30 then 25.....
. Got to a fuel station and put an additional 10 gallons in it and when I restarted the engine the gauge came up off of "youre on borrowed time" and the truck was not surging any more.
Any of you ever run across something like that before? Fords infinitely wisdomical way of making the operator look at the gauges one last time before he sucks a bunch of tank bottoms into his $60.00 filters?-popcorn
My truck has been sitting in the driveway taking an extended vacation for a couple of reasons, weather has been nice enough that my wife has been driving the Mustang as her DD, I've got a Jeep for my 4x4 needs on my work commute and I havent had the need to haul much of anything for a while now so anyway make a long story short here the SD has been just relaxing that is until today. I've had some shrubs here at the new house that were begging to be gotten rid of and it seemed a great job for the pickup. I wrapped a chain around the closest one, dropped the transfer case in 4low and eased the shrub right on out
. I think it was a Greasewood but Im not certain, I am certain it is gone. Then I had two Junipers that were just over grown and in the way so I wrapped the chain around one of them and my chain wasnt long enough to get to the pickup hitch. The shrubs and Junipers were in a raised bed over a 16" curb so I couldnt just "drive" the pickup up there. So that left me the Polaris ATV and lemme tell you what, pulling 8' tall Junipers out with an ATV is a teeth rattling experience. While I was working with the ATV I had just left the pickup idling as I thought I would be right back in it. The last time the pickup got parked it was low on fuel...... really low.... and I never really noticed it when I pulled the first shrub nor when I decided to leave it idle. Finally got done screwing around with the landscape removal project and jumped in the pickup to make a dump run and noticed the fuel gauge at a lower position that I have EVER seen it, punched the INFO button and it told me I had 4 miles to empty.
Well, I had a 5 gallon jug of diesel in the garage that I use to run my fired space heater with so I decided to dump it in the pickup so I could at least make it to the gas station. I never did shut the engine off so the fuel gauge didnt reset itself to the newly found 5 gallons in her tummy and I pulled out on the street and the truck started to surge. Plenty of power, idled fine but about every 15 seconds or so the RPMs would drop about 200-300 revs while I was driving. I knew I wasnt out of fuel since I just dumped 5 gallons in so I pulled over and shut her down to see if it would reset the gauge. Nope, no such luck. So off we went down the street doing 30 mph then 25, then 30 then 25 the 30 then 25...... Got to a fuel station and put an additional 10 gallons in it and when I restarted the engine the gauge came up off of "youre on borrowed time" and the truck was not surging any more.Any of you ever run across something like that before? Fords infinitely wisdomical way of making the operator look at the gauges one last time before he sucks a bunch of tank bottoms into his $60.00 filters?-popcorn
