Hello all
First time poster, but this forum and ones like it have helped me diagnose and solve many issues in the past and I am so thankful for it/them/you.
I've owned the truck for a couple of years now, bought it with 126,000km, for the most part it has been a great truck. On its first trip, it went through a blizzard and was saying "CLEAN EXHAUST FILTER" and go into limp mode. I believe it may have been a thread on this forum that helped me figure out it was snow getting into the filter box. My brother was delivering it to me a province away on a Sunday and in the dark, but he was able to buy a replacement filter and kept one under the floor heater to thaw and then replaced it when it happened again. I know there is a TSB on this. Since I bought the truck used I don't think I can get the winter box and or front cover for free. Haven't had that issue since.
I changed the filter to a K&N, which ended up being a mistake when I had MAF codes and limp mode. I guess those K&N oiled filters are notorious for covering the sensor in oil, so back to paper filter and the problem has been gone. I did this a year ago.
Heated seats stopped working within months of buying it, but I figure thats par for the course. You can turn them on and the light comes on and stays for a minute or two and then turns off. I can repeat this forever and they never get warm. Checked fuses. Not a big deal.
Bigger issues have happened since Nov 25:
B1S1 sensor error. Changed upstream from DPF EGT sensor. Before I got to it, I also got some codes for the DPF, including the soot accumulation code and the DPF differential sensor. After I replaced the sensor I cleared the codes, put truck in manual mode and drove on the highway in 5th gear for 30 minutes and everything cleared up. Worked well for a day, used remote start... truck shut off. I knew CEL was on, checked it, Glow plug #2 failed. Ordered glo plug, cleared code. Came back on next start, this time saying Glow plug #4. Then idling while I was relearning the TPMS it came back with the MAF code and limp mode. I pulled out the sensor and cleaned it with sensor cleaner and cleared code. Has gone away for a few days. Anyone in the Alberta area knows that this past week has been cold. Colder than usual for here. It is currently -27 celcius/ about -17 F. Since its been cold, it has been smoking some grey stinky smoke. I guess that might be unburnt fuel? It does it basically any time I get into the throttle, no matter if Im on the highway for 2 hours and then try to pass someone, I still notice it. Then this m morning, at the end of a 1 hour commute it lurches to a stop. RPMs jumping jumping jumping until I stop it completely or get back into the throttle.
I find it strange I am having all sorts of issues all of a sudden. I think the batteries are probably getting a little long in the tooth, and I am making sure to plug it in. It starts well when plugged in. I am wondering if the batteries need replacement, if they are causing other issues or at least false readings in things like the glow plugs? Do you think its causing the fuel pressure regulator valve to malfunction? Maybe thats what is causing the smoke and lurching this morning? (some might say that is fuel gelling, but I get my fuel from reputable places with winter blends and never had this problem in other weather) I feel like things are going wrong with the truck literally faster than I can fix them.
Anyways, lots of info there, sorry for the long first post! And I am certainly no mechanical expert. I am a carpenter by trade and most of the things I have fixed or learned, I have learned from forums like this or youtube videos. I have a family to feed and am usually fixing on my own because I can't pay someone else to! Feel free to educate me.
First time poster, but this forum and ones like it have helped me diagnose and solve many issues in the past and I am so thankful for it/them/you.
I've owned the truck for a couple of years now, bought it with 126,000km, for the most part it has been a great truck. On its first trip, it went through a blizzard and was saying "CLEAN EXHAUST FILTER" and go into limp mode. I believe it may have been a thread on this forum that helped me figure out it was snow getting into the filter box. My brother was delivering it to me a province away on a Sunday and in the dark, but he was able to buy a replacement filter and kept one under the floor heater to thaw and then replaced it when it happened again. I know there is a TSB on this. Since I bought the truck used I don't think I can get the winter box and or front cover for free. Haven't had that issue since.
I changed the filter to a K&N, which ended up being a mistake when I had MAF codes and limp mode. I guess those K&N oiled filters are notorious for covering the sensor in oil, so back to paper filter and the problem has been gone. I did this a year ago.
Heated seats stopped working within months of buying it, but I figure thats par for the course. You can turn them on and the light comes on and stays for a minute or two and then turns off. I can repeat this forever and they never get warm. Checked fuses. Not a big deal.
Bigger issues have happened since Nov 25:
B1S1 sensor error. Changed upstream from DPF EGT sensor. Before I got to it, I also got some codes for the DPF, including the soot accumulation code and the DPF differential sensor. After I replaced the sensor I cleared the codes, put truck in manual mode and drove on the highway in 5th gear for 30 minutes and everything cleared up. Worked well for a day, used remote start... truck shut off. I knew CEL was on, checked it, Glow plug #2 failed. Ordered glo plug, cleared code. Came back on next start, this time saying Glow plug #4. Then idling while I was relearning the TPMS it came back with the MAF code and limp mode. I pulled out the sensor and cleaned it with sensor cleaner and cleared code. Has gone away for a few days. Anyone in the Alberta area knows that this past week has been cold. Colder than usual for here. It is currently -27 celcius/ about -17 F. Since its been cold, it has been smoking some grey stinky smoke. I guess that might be unburnt fuel? It does it basically any time I get into the throttle, no matter if Im on the highway for 2 hours and then try to pass someone, I still notice it. Then this m morning, at the end of a 1 hour commute it lurches to a stop. RPMs jumping jumping jumping until I stop it completely or get back into the throttle.
I find it strange I am having all sorts of issues all of a sudden. I think the batteries are probably getting a little long in the tooth, and I am making sure to plug it in. It starts well when plugged in. I am wondering if the batteries need replacement, if they are causing other issues or at least false readings in things like the glow plugs? Do you think its causing the fuel pressure regulator valve to malfunction? Maybe thats what is causing the smoke and lurching this morning? (some might say that is fuel gelling, but I get my fuel from reputable places with winter blends and never had this problem in other weather) I feel like things are going wrong with the truck literally faster than I can fix them.
Anyways, lots of info there, sorry for the long first post! And I am certainly no mechanical expert. I am a carpenter by trade and most of the things I have fixed or learned, I have learned from forums like this or youtube videos. I have a family to feed and am usually fixing on my own because I can't pay someone else to! Feel free to educate me.