F350 repaired!!! Maybe LOL

JD Seller

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I read some Ford diesel forums. One fellow had a lot of direct knowledge. He went through the circuit for the voltage regulator. Ford had an engineer that must have flunked out of common sense class. You put a 10 amp fuse in the supply to voltage regulator. That is fine and dandy. Then you power the battery warning light off the SAME FUSE!!!! So when this fuse blows your truck quits charging and also does not show it in the dash cluster because the warning light also has no power. GREAT design people!!! LOL

So I only wasted a few hours on a simple blown fuse.

This Ford F350 is the third Ford product I have ever owned. IF it keeps giving me trouble it very well could be the last one too!!!
 
Well you are supposed to fix or repair it daily :) That feeling of being glad it is something so simple and so angry it was something so simple.
 
Traditional Farmer: This truck pulls and handles a load well. I hope that the troubles are just the bugs needing worked out since it set for over two years. The prior owner ran the crap out of it but did routine maintanance well. His help beat the crap out of the bed but the cab and frame are rust free. If The bugs work out before winter I am going to remove the factory bed and build a flat bed for it. Then have the cab/frame painted. I will have less than a fourth of what a new truck like it would cost so I can put up with a few bugs for now.
 
My dads last Ford pickup was a 75 F250. He had a lot of problems with it, especially the front axle. If you remember Ford had the light bulb in there commercials years ago. My dad says there light bulb burnt out! LOL
 
(quoted from post at 22:42:45 07/24/16) Quote from Big Bang Theory, " you need a check the check engine light".

My Saturn actually has this feature. If the check engine fails the self test there is another service light that comes on to indicate a problem. Now, what should you do if the service light fails?
 
That must have been an older truck, since the mid/late 80's they had a resister inline too, so if the bulb burned out it would still charge, I forgot the actual year they did that. That design was not just a blunder from ford.
 
Ford engineering has been that way since the dawn of the computer age in the eighty's or so. If a function takes two wires on a GM product, the same function on a Ford will take five to ten wires. My dad always had mercury sables and it was always never ending problems. Get one fixed and the next two or three would pop up and on and on.
 
I had an 86 F250 and never could get it to where it was drivable, 2 wheel drive, was in the alignment shop, different shops several times, had different steering gear put on as well as front wheel stabilizer. Never could get it where you could keep it on the road with a trailer, load levelers and stabilizer bar or not, without trailer was OK. Any ideas here? Also when bought it advertised as low millage 69,000, turned out it must have been 269,000 mile.
 
I bought my first new Ford in 1971 and have been driving Fords almost exclusively ever since. Bought the latest one last Thursday. I've had a few Chrysler's and GM's in the mix. I can say with experience the Fords have been the most trouble free and dependable of all of them with Chrysler being the worst.
 
Must have been the same engineer that powered the ECM on the same fuse that powers the fuel filter heater (not needed)
and powered the TCM THRU the 3rd brake light!
 
(quoted from post at 10:57:23 07/25/16) ..................... I've had a few Chrysler's and GM's in the mix. I can say with experience the Fords have been the most trouble free and dependable of all of them with Chrysler being the worst.

I drove Fords until I got hold of a '65 that had lived in the Midwest, the body had no rust to speak of but the frame, shock towers, etc. were totally rusted out AND the v/8 engine would not hold oil pressure (I was told that that was a 'problem' with those engines). This truck was supposed to replace a '56 F100 but ended up being 'wholesaled' and the '56 was put back in harness. I bought Chevy after that and then Mopar and I can say the that I agree with your experience except that Dodge and GM have been my most reliable and FORDs have been less so, BUT I do have a soft spot for the Ford 300 cu. in. I6 engine. Probably the best TRUCK engine ever built by any of the big 3. BUT, that's just my experience, yours has obviously been different. :)
 
So you need another alternator or you need to check the wiring. Because the fuse didn't blow on its own.
 
I think I blew the fuse when I was changing the bad alternator. Since the battery light went out I assumed the "new" alternator was charging. The batteries where just a little bit low on voltage when I changed the alternator. I only drove the truck about ten miles to fuel it up after I changed the alternator. So I just thought the lower voltage was just due to me not running the truck very long.
 
(quoted from post at 06:22:01 07/25/16) Ford engineering has been that way since the dawn of the computer age in the eighty's or so. If a function takes two wires on a GM product, the same function on a Ford will take five to ten wires. My dad always had mercury sables and it was always never ending problems. Get one fixed and the next two or three would pop up and on and on.

Maybe GOV"T MOTORS should use more wires.It might fix their front light problems.
 

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