Major Ecoboost repair, long delays
My daughter parked her 2013 F150 Ecoboost with about 140,000 miles on it back in mid-May. When she started it back up it would barely run and was very rough. To make a long story short it was parked...
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Groover wrote:
She took it to a local mechanic that seemed to have a good reputation but also he was the only one that would take the truck in quickly. The mechanic diagnosed the problem as a failed electric vacuum pump that had self destructed and some of the debris got sucked into the engine. The debris made a mess of the passenger side head. After working on it for about 2 weeks he told her that it was fixed and to take it away. It was far from fixed but did make to my house in Tennessee where I borrowed a truck with a gooseneck hitch to get her horses the rest of the way to Dayton.
So many questions:
#1. Did you physically see the damage to the head or even a picture?
#2. So what did the mechanic do? Recon the head? Get a junk yard one? Buy a new one from Ford?
#3. What does far from fixed mean? Is is low on power. Runs rough? Smokes? Knocks?
#4. Did you take it back to the first guy and tell him it runs bad?
#5. Was the turbo replaced? If not why not?
#6. Was any pistons replaced? If not why not?
A lot of this doesn't make much sense to me. I haven't heard of one instance that the vacuum pump blows up and kills the engine. Not saying it can't happen but it just seem sus to me.
Maybe after seeing the answers to the above questions I can give more help.
