I want to publicly thank Ford, their reps Mr Nicholes, Ms Hayden and their bosses for helping me through what could have been a very sticky situation regarding my GT.
DBK and a few others know all the gory details which I won't go deep into (way to long and drawn out).
In short my car got the dreaded 50amp quick charge the day I picked it up new from the dealer. This wounded but didn't kill the battery which allowed the car to start but not enough volts for the fuel gauge to work. The dealer thought it was a bad sending unit in the fuel tank and when feeling around inside damaged one of the return fuel line check valves. This caused one of the cars two fuel pumps to cavitate BUT only at half full or less. When the computer would sense a drop in fuel pressure it would bleed off boost HOWEVER the cars boost gauge and external boost gauges read ok. I don't drive my car hard so only sometimes would the car feel down on power. It would take a combination of my "getting on it" and a low fuel tank and then it ran ok, it just seemed to be down on power by the seat of the pants test.:confused
Where this gets weird is right after this dealer worked on the tank and replaced the battery, I pulled my blower off and had it polished (bling bling):smash . Soooo I thought the loss of power could possibly have had something to do with the polish job. Ie. a bad gasket or God forbid a chunk of polishing compound going through the motor:eek . I spent a ton of money thinking the problem was mine when in fact it was the fuel tank all along. I'm just scratching the surface of the hoops I jumped through trying to find this intermittent problem.
Kudos also go out to Jack at MMP for his shop was the place the actually was able to isolated the problem and with Fords backing fixed the issue. This may not seem like a big deal but this problem went on for over 13 months at 4 different repair locations. In the end it was a broken 3 dollar plastic check valve inside a $2500.00 fuel tank.
Ford takes their beatings from time to time here on these forums (halfshafts) and I think they deserved to be publicly praised when they come through. Ford could have made it very hard on me due to my trying to chase this problem on my own. When it became clear it wasn't anything I did they stepped right up and took care of me.
I am again a proud owner. The car didn't need new heads, cams, blower, computer, a new motor or owner (all very real options). Just a mechanic to except a challenge, a fuel tank and a corporation wanting to make things right.:thumbsup
SteveA
DBK and a few others know all the gory details which I won't go deep into (way to long and drawn out).
In short my car got the dreaded 50amp quick charge the day I picked it up new from the dealer. This wounded but didn't kill the battery which allowed the car to start but not enough volts for the fuel gauge to work. The dealer thought it was a bad sending unit in the fuel tank and when feeling around inside damaged one of the return fuel line check valves. This caused one of the cars two fuel pumps to cavitate BUT only at half full or less. When the computer would sense a drop in fuel pressure it would bleed off boost HOWEVER the cars boost gauge and external boost gauges read ok. I don't drive my car hard so only sometimes would the car feel down on power. It would take a combination of my "getting on it" and a low fuel tank and then it ran ok, it just seemed to be down on power by the seat of the pants test.:confused
Where this gets weird is right after this dealer worked on the tank and replaced the battery, I pulled my blower off and had it polished (bling bling):smash . Soooo I thought the loss of power could possibly have had something to do with the polish job. Ie. a bad gasket or God forbid a chunk of polishing compound going through the motor:eek . I spent a ton of money thinking the problem was mine when in fact it was the fuel tank all along. I'm just scratching the surface of the hoops I jumped through trying to find this intermittent problem.
Kudos also go out to Jack at MMP for his shop was the place the actually was able to isolated the problem and with Fords backing fixed the issue. This may not seem like a big deal but this problem went on for over 13 months at 4 different repair locations. In the end it was a broken 3 dollar plastic check valve inside a $2500.00 fuel tank.
Ford takes their beatings from time to time here on these forums (halfshafts) and I think they deserved to be publicly praised when they come through. Ford could have made it very hard on me due to my trying to chase this problem on my own. When it became clear it wasn't anything I did they stepped right up and took care of me.
I am again a proud owner. The car didn't need new heads, cams, blower, computer, a new motor or owner (all very real options). Just a mechanic to except a challenge, a fuel tank and a corporation wanting to make things right.:thumbsup
SteveA
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