The 200k mile difference on my buddy's 7.3 Powerstroke was unreal

My friend Jared bought a beat up 2002 F-350 with 280k miles on it for $3500 last fall. The thing smoked like crazy and had a dead miss at idle. We pulled the injectors and found 3 of them were totally clogged up with crap from sitting. After we replaced those and threw in a $40 fuel filter kit, it ran smoother than my work truck with half the miles. Has anyone else seen a truck completely transform just from fresh fuel delivery parts?

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grant5696d ago

That thing about the injectors being clogged with crap from sitting really hits home. It's wild how something as simple as old fuel can just wreck everything, but once you clean out the path, the whole system breathes again. I've noticed this same pattern in so many things, not just trucks. Like old lawnmowers that sit all winter, or even people's routines. You get a blockage, a clog, a bad connection somewhere, and the whole system acts like it's broken. Then you clear that one little thing and it's like a new machine.

thompson.xena6d ago

Have you ever had a car that just came back to life like that? It's amazing what a good cleaning and some fresh parts can do. My neighbor's old Duramax sat for two years in his yard, and we swapped out the fuel filter and ran some injector cleaner through it, and it went from barely idling to purring like a kitten in about 20 minutes. Makes you wonder how many trucks get sent to the junkyard just from bad fuel (seriously, it's probably a lot).