Ford Recalls Nearly 260,000 Trucks, SUVs, Vans

Ford Motor Co. is recalling nearly 260,000 vehicles, most of them large pickup trucks, to fix safety defects that include sudden stalling of diesel engines, U.S. federal safety regulators said on Monday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the stalling problem affected F-Series superduty pickups from the 2004-2005 model years as well as the 2004-2005 Ford Excursion full-size sport utility vehicle and E350 and E450 vans. All 180,104 of those vehicles are equipped with 6.0 liter diesel engines and the recall stems from a potentially faulty fuel injection control module, NHTSA said. 

Separately, it said Ford was recalling 78,675 superduty pickups and chassis cab vehicles from the 2005 model year because their fuel line may separate from the main fuel bundle. Fuel line separation can cause engine stalling or leakage, possibly resulting in a fire, NHTSA said. It identified the trucks affected by the recall as F-250, F-350, F-450 and F-550 superduty pickups and said they were equipped with 5.4 or 6.8 liter gasoline engines.
(Source: Reuters Newswire)

Mr.Truck, are you sure it just applies to gas engines? We have an 05 F-350 diesel and are having sluggish problems with it when we haul our 4horse. As much as it hurts me to say this(because I'm the Ford fan in the family) our 2500 Chevy pulls better.It doesn't seem to want to shift and heaven help if you have an incline it just loses momentum. We took it to the dealership and of course they put it on the computer, which said nothing was wrong. Imagine That!!! Have you heard of anything like this??????????? Any help appreciated. Thanks,bits

 I have a 04 350 crew cab dually with 17k miles. It blew

the turbo hose and left me stranded with horses last

week. It was towed to a dealer ( I was 4hrs from home)

I picked up the next day - hooked back up headed to

the show and 50 miles later it blew again. Again

it was towed- I picked it up 4 days later. I drove home

last night towing a trailer and two horses- had to

baby it the whole way. The rpms headed to the 4 range

when at 65-70 mph. I had to drive 45mph to keep it

at 2 + rmps. It was making a load rushing air sound

by the turbo hose area. Type in " ford turbo problems"

on google. You will be amazed it is a chronic problem.

I have spoken to numerous people, including service

techs and mgrs. I was told by my own Ford dealership

today to stay away from a the 6.0. I am getting rid

of mine. The mgr. told me difficult to solve the problem

They had one truck that blew the hose - no joke 50 times.  I loved my truck but now  F  - fix  O- or

R-repair  D- daily    is soooo.... true. I m heading

to Chevy or Dodge til Ford can figure it out.