tahiti16
Camarillo, CA
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Have you had any check engine lights come on recently? We had a 90 Ford with the 460 and it turned on the check engine light one day. I followed the book turned off the key turned it back on and the light was out. No light for a couple weeks. Then we were driving the coast here in CA and hit a few of the gentle hills and the engine just died as far as power. Pulled to the side and it sounded just like starving for fuel. Turn it off and it would start right back up, but being in the hills now as soon as we started up a grade it would do it again. Got it hauled into a dealer and the cat was blocked because a sensor had failed, the check engine light, and sent the computer into limp and ran the engine too rich.
Ray, Cheryl, Cory & of course Miss Molly the four-legged child
2006 Dolphin 36' F53 V10 5 speed auto 2 slides 7.5 KW genset
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dsbsi
Minnesota
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Rob
If your Ford F53 Chassis was built after 11/26/96 you should already have the new style 4 wire Turbine Pump in your gasoline tank. If built before that date, see Ford Motor Co. Article No. 97-23-9 if you need to replace the old 3 Wire Gerotor Pump.
2008 MotorHome magazine has a letter in the trouble shooting section that states the following.
"1995 Ford chassis with a 7.5-L (460) engine. Changed the tank mounted fuel pump but that did not cure the problem. What later did cure the problem was replacing the Ignition-Control-Module, which is a heat-sensitive finned device mounted on the firewall radiator support behind the radiator coolant recovery jug. The original Motorcraft F1SF12A297-c1A. I replaced it with a aftermarket Niehoff no. FF411 Unit."
Your Ford F53 460 Engine chassis may need the old (Ford OBD 1) code reader for a check-Engine-Light problem.
Good Luck and let us know what solved the problem.
Dwight
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Dutch_12078
Great Sacandaga Lake, NY
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F53's from 1994 to 1997 did not have catalytic converters. Looking underneath one, some people mistake the resonator for a cat. Also, the F53 didn't get OBDII diagnostics until the switch to the V-10 in 1999, so a Ford OBDI code reader would definitely be needed.
Dutch
1995 Coachmen Catalina 322QBXL
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cranerob
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I am really starting to think it is going into limp mode and the key is resetting it any ideas what the list of causes are for limp mode I am back in Ontario and RV is in Florida gonna bring it back in a few months so am trying to narrow it down before our next visit
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dsbsi
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I am not aware of a limp mode on the Ford F53 7.5L-460 with OBD I Electronics.
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missscarlet9
Saskatchewan
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ernestfortier wrote:The fuel pickup line should have a sock on the bottom of it. If there is some foreign debris in the fuel tank the sock will clog and stop the fuel supply. When the engine stops the fuel in the pickup line flushes the debris away from the sock allowing the vehicle to start again. The generator would not be affected because the sock for it is a lot higher than the bottom of the tank. I had this problem on one of my pickup trucks. X2
I had the same problem in a mid 80's Chevy van.
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