03' Ford 6.0l

Wamphyri · Dec 21, 2015

Well my ol beast Matilda just about left my wife at the side of the road last night, but she struggled knocked bagged and managed to get her home before dieing in the driveway. Now today she starts fine, takes one or two extra turns to get her going but the black smoke bellowing out of the exhaust, created a WWIII smoke cloud to hide the neighbors house down the road. Pretty sure NASA just reported a SOS cloud coming from my house. Anyways my FICM is a bit over a year old, but the last few months I was having major battery issues. Originally I thought I had a short some place and it was draining my batteries. Turned out that both my batteries gave up the go. So they where replaced and all was well till yesterday. I have read over time that dead batteries hurt ficm's, if thats true then I'll go waste my time and trouble shoot that. If not what else would cause a massive fuel dump to create the black smoke. (I let it run for about 5 minutes and it was still smoking black)

Wamphyri · Dec 21, 2015

Oh I should add oil is good, nice and black not milky and the anti freeze in the degrees bottle is still anti freeze and not milky sludge

6.0 Tech · Dec 21, 2015

Black and not running sounds egr related. Try pulling it out and take a look see.

Wamphyri · Dec 21, 2015

It runs, idles itself up and everything (cold outside) not want to drive down the road with it tho since i live at the top of the hill, i'll never get back up lol

6.0 Tech · Dec 21, 2015

Does it rev in neutral or park?

Wamphyri · Dec 21, 2015

In park, what i ment by rev up is the warm up cycle diesels do. never tried neutral

6.0 Tech · Dec 21, 2015

If you put your foot to the floor in park or neutral will it rev up and sit on the limiter or will it try to die or just not rev?

Wamphyri · Dec 21, 2015

i'll run out and try that, gimmi a moment

Ackerdiesel · Dec 21, 2015

Can't see your sig, what mods

Ryan

Wamphyri · Dec 21, 2015

yeah she screamed right up without any problems, come back down fine to a idle

Wamphyri · Dec 21, 2015

no exhaust after cat, uhmm bully dog tune for tow, blue spring upgrade thats it

Ackerdiesel · Dec 21, 2015

Unplug the egr valve and see what happens

Ryan

Wamphyri · Dec 21, 2015

ok, that will be in the daylight, i can smell raw fuel as well, not just a little but ALOT. if the egr is fine, how do you test injectors to find out if theres issues with them?

Ackerdiesel · Dec 21, 2015

With a scanner

Ryan

Wamphyri · Dec 21, 2015

alright, which one would you suggest for a poor sap on a budget

Ackerdiesel · Dec 21, 2015

Auto Enguinity if you have a laptop

Ryan

Wamphyri · Dec 21, 2015

i got a laptop

http://www.riffraffdiesel.com/autoenginuity-total-ford-enhanced-bundle/
will that work?

Wamphyri · Dec 21, 2015

something i should of asked, when i unplug the egr, what results should i be expecting?

6.0 Tech · Dec 22, 2015

Check ficm voltage running, icp voltage key on engine off, egr valve position voltage key on engine off,

Unplugging yhe egr should make it run better in theory. But if it revs good, i would go drive it and see if its better. Could have been a piece of carbon stuck in the valve and hanging it open and it cleared out possibly.

Wamphyri · Dec 22, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10U21rTUIdY

still smoking really bad, i let it run for a while since its cold here today and she was still smoking after warming up a bit