Got up at 3 am this morning. Had about a 3 hr drive to get to a friends place to pick up some things needed for the house. Got about 15 miles from the house and the truck started shaking with the check engine light flashing. Had this happen once before and it was a coil/spark plug problem. Turned around and back home by 4 am. When the parts house opens, I'll head that way, let them put the meter on it and find out which cylinder isn't firing. Buy the parts and fix it.
Now it will be Sat. at the earliest before I can get over to his place. Might do a little deer hunting.
That is a bad way to start your morning!
Don't want to get going this morning here either. Too cold. Need to get going and head to deer stand, but even though it's heated, I'm in no hurry.
This is the type of morning I couldn't wait for. Temp in teens for deer. 73 now! I'll go for a nice 3 mile brisk walk, early lunch, nap, and hunt in the 30's this afternoon......
Now it will be Sat. at the earliest before I can get over to his place. Might do a little deer hunting.
See?
Silver Lining!
That sucks Randy, At least it's deer season!
Change of plans........getting ready to go start the truck and hunt out my portable deer stand. It's 10 degrees and too darn cold for me to ride half a mile in a UTV, then wait until Mr. Heater warms up the shooting house. Anyway, haven't seen anything worth shooting, and yesterday afternoon I had 20 does feeding in the cornfield, and one little dink. He was sniffing on every doe in the field.
Now it will be Sat. at the earliest before I can get over to his place. Might do a little deer hunting.
See?
Silver Lining!
This! turn that frown......upside down.
An OBD2 scanner will often tell you which cylinder isn't firing. It helped me out a time or two.
being someone that had to keep spare coils in the cab when I had one, I'm guessing Ford too
Will be an easy fix, but don't ya hate something like that, when you have plans or things to get done?
hope both the hunt and the repair has positive results Randy...
when ya get high miles on a vehicle, things like that start happening...
In know the feeling. The coils on my Corolla started failing at around 260,000 miles. Second one went out I replaced the other two too. Friggin POS 🙂
Now it will be Sat. at the earliest before I can get over to his place. Might do a little deer hunting.
See?
Silver Lining!
Lemonade
Good so far, got a couple of thing done here at work, got a couple more to do. Can’t go deer hunting until weekend after next. December is going to suck as far as hunting goes, family Christmas parties, graduation at Sooner University in Oklahoma. It’s gonna be tough not going.
Change of plans........getting ready to go start the truck and hunt out my portable deer stand. It's 10 degrees and too darn cold for me to ride half a mile in a UTV, then wait until Mr. Heater warms up the shooting house. Anyway, haven't seen anything worth shooting, and yesterday afternoon I had 20 does feeding in the cornfield, and one little dink. He was sniffing on every doe in the field.
Interesting, colder the better IME, at least where I hunt in ND, MN, MT, and WY. Cold forces the deer to feed longer and more often. Does on their feet and feeding means bucks on their feet and chasing.
I had 2 Fords w/5.4's and lost at least 2 coil packs on each. Didn't ever have my truck shake and shudder, just a bit of a rough idle and CEL.
Change of plans........getting ready to go start the truck and hunt out my portable deer stand. It's 10 degrees and too darn cold for me to ride half a mile in a UTV, then wait until Mr. Heater warms up the shooting house. Anyway, haven't seen anything worth shooting, and yesterday afternoon I had 20 does feeding in the cornfield, and one little dink. He was sniffing on every doe in the field.
Interesting, colder the better IME, at least where I hunt in ND, MN, MT, and WY. Cold forces the deer to feed longer and more often. Does on their feet and feeding means bucks on their feet and chasing.
They move good in cold weather here too, especially if you're near a good food source. Unfortunately, the local Mennonites shoot every buck they see, which means few reach maturity, resulting in very few trophy bucks. I'm not a meat hunter, if I was it would be great, as we're over run with does. The Mennonites are supposedly meat hunters, but they'll turn down a big fat doe for a scrawny little spike, just so they nail the antlers up on their barn for their friends to see.
I saw a bunch again this morning, but nothing worth looking at twice.
22F here at 0700 hrs! Beats the whey out of 100F!
Change of plans........getting ready to go start the truck and hunt out my portable deer stand. It's 10 degrees and too darn cold for me to ride half a mile in a UTV, then wait until Mr. Heater warms up the shooting house. Anyway, haven't seen anything worth shooting, and yesterday afternoon I had 20 does feeding in the cornfield, and one little dink. He was sniffing on every doe in the field.
Interesting, colder the better IME, at least where I hunt in ND, MN, MT, and WY. Cold forces the deer to feed longer and more often. Does on their feet and feeding means bucks on their feet and chasing.
I had 2 Fords w/5.4's and lost at least 2 coil packs on each. Didn't ever have my truck shake and shudder, just a bit of a rough idle and CEL.
6 cyl Nissan Frontier, when you lose one cylinder, it shakes the truck. When it first happened, I thought I was having a flat, got out and checked tires. When I started gaining speed, that's when the check engine light started flashing and you could really feel the shaking. Going uphill it's very noticeable, downhill not so much.
I have bad coil right now on my f250 v10. Maybe 2. FIIK
Drive it a heavy rain or go thru a creek crossing lose a goddamm coil.
Check engine light won't show everytime on my truck, annd the obd won't even show a pre-code.
Got a bud with some big hoop-a-joop Snap on computer thinger, it won't do it either. And that's even hooked up, driving around with live data.
Whenever I have a bad coil, I have to play Russian Coil Roulette with one new COPS and switch it out. PITA.
I can get a set of 10 new one (AC brand) for about $125 off if Amazon.
(blah blah blah, Bezos, Bloomberg, givin money to Bilderbergers and the Illuminati) some of conspiracy fuggers crack me up
Glass half empty today?
The other day my Toyota got warm on a quick run to the post office. Brought it home, called AAA to drag it to the shop, got another new radiator under warranty. Didn't get stuck 60 miles from home in the mountains bear hunting the day before. Didn't get stuck in a congested intersection in town or in some tweeker neighborhood with no cell phone reception. I drank a cocktail while my truck got repaired.
You drive it home, it was a good day.
Why not replace all your spark plugs and coils so your truck is dependable?
Hi Randy. I am not familiar with that engine, but the symptoms cause me to suspect something other than no fire in one can. Eager to learn what you find.
Check the Fuel Pump Driver Module. They can cause all kinds of strange issues:
https://www.f150forum.com/f4/fuel-pump-driver-module-check-yours-152908/
Oldman3 said it was a Nissan. Someone else speculated it was a Ford.
OK truck guru's - clue me in on this. My 03 Ram 3500 with Cummins got harder and harder to start, so I took it in while it still would. Leaking injectors.
$3500 foir a whole new set of injectors, etc- instlled....should be done today.. I hope. Wife took her car to Anchorage for a 5 day trip to MT., yesterday, so I'm Wheelles (and clueless) In Alaska today.
Is this leaking injector failure usual for 97K miles? Seems they should last longer to me.
My 90 Chev 3500 lost a couple (after an engine transpant- I think the guy damaged 'em on the change over), during it's 24K run before I got rid of it a few weeks ago.
Something sounds wonky to me, like Fraudulent Mechanic Syndrome. Your ram's a 6 right? That means your injectors are $600 each. I could see a couple hundred each maybe, but that's plumb ridiculous. I think you should have gone to an independent mechanic not the dealer. Either that or I should have stayed pulling wrenches. I was in the wrong business.
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Oldman3 said it was a Nissan. Someone else speculated it was a Ford.
Thanks, I missed that. I don't savvy Nissan so I'm out.
99 bucks or so for a bluetooth to phone code reader... coil on plugs are simple to change where ever you are and back on the road again. Maybe not the best for this morning but some days it sure comes in handy...
Went to the parts house and Jeff put the meter on it. #6 coil not firing. Back right cylinder and easy to get to. Bought a coil, plug and while there got me one of them meters that hooks into the plug under the steering wheel. Tried the meter out, before I changed the parts and sure enough, it showed the same coil was bad. Took 15 min to change the parts and that fixed it. Cleared the code with my new meter and all is fine.
Called my buddy and his plans have changed, so I'll get up at 3 am again and give it another try in the morning.
being someone that had to keep spare coils in the cab when I had one, I'm guessing Ford too
All 10 of my OE coils made it to 195,000 miles.