Fuel heater elimination...

[Scot]

Anyone heard anything about why Ford would be eliminatin the fuel heater? See post I found elsewhere:
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""Just went through this yesterday, stripped the 6mm plug. I went to get the repair kit as mentioned earlier in this thread, the one with the side plate.
When I asked for the part # that is listed earlier the guy tells me there's an updated number. I get the plate and take a look. It has the steel plug, WIF sensor and no heater. I asked him what was up. Apparently the new part has eliminated the heater because it was ‘causing a condition’. I know the guy and don’t think he would mislead me. Besides, it makes sense. My WIF light was only coming on after running a while. When I started it, no light. A bit later, a light, without moving the truck.

So here’s what I ended up with. A new side plate, sensor and plug (6C3Z-9B249-A), and a new wiring pig tail to get rid of the heater wire (6C3Z-9F759-A).

On another note, I not yet replaced the side plate. What I did to get the old plug out was to take a dermal with a 1” heavy duty cut off wheel and cut a slot if the plug. I then used a half inch screw driver and a small crescent wrench to remove the plug. That got my water drained, and I’ll change the plate at a more convenient time.""

 

[powerboatr]

i like the "causing a condition"
shoot i get a "condition" all the time
your going to force me to crawl under the truck this evening to check my fuel conditioner now

 

[Sader]

Hmmmmmm, interesting. Any elaboration on 'the condition' it was causing?

-popcorn

 

[Scot]

????

Well, so far 2 dealers have not heard of this. The first words out of their mouths were "What about Jelling" So I guess this could just be an option in warmer climates.

 

[architect-builder]

Saves Ford a $1.50. -popcorn

Barrett

 

[AK_6LPSD]

HFCM Heater delet

From what I have read, the heater was eliminated because the repeated heating and cooling of the element is/was causing the "WIF light staying lit after draining" condition and maybe/probably the cause of many HFCM drain plugs to be a little stubborn unscrewing.

Apparently if you have an older 6.0 and take off the HFCM manifold, there is a good chance you will find a lot of gunk and corrosion on the heater element.

 

[jvencius]

Given how "sensibly" the rest of the truck is engineered, I'm willing to bet that chitcanning the fuel heater saved Ford $0.03 per truck in build/warranty costs...-mad

 

[budtoh3zo]

There is a second way how they heat the fuel to they bring the fuel back from the return lines and put it in the HFCM till it hits a sertin temp i forget what it is, Its in the bible i will have another look.