Might I add....
for insurance purpose, watch your words on a public forum. You're welcome @slimwhitman
for insurance purpose, watch your words on a public forum. You're welcome @slimwhitman
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Seized motors do happen . Crap just happens. Could of been an oil supply issue or a rod let go . Piston broke. Until they identify root cause. When this happened how long had engine been running? Was it fully warmed up? Were you just slowing driving in a blizzard? How was your oil level? Were you hearing any noises?
As far as tune don't ask don't tell. Was tune only mod on truck? Unless tune was causing detonation you could hammer out your bearings or break stuff.. Which I highly doubt cobb and goose tunes have all the safety stuff enabled . Tune did add probably 4 psi more boost than stock which is more load. I assume driving normally in a snowstorm I doubt you were in heavy boost.
I'm not a fan of variable pressure oil pump driving 80+ mph at 2000 rpm and 23 psi oil pressure. I don't know Seems low. Then when you come stop it goes to 30 psi idling in drive. Then under load its 70psi or more. Ford engineered that for themselves CAFE standards increase fuel mileage over the fleet. Guess I'm just old school like to see oil pressure being consistent. I have been running motorcraft 5w30 synthetic and filter . Dealer serviced every 2500miles . But I think after watching banks power videos on oil on youtube . I'm going to step up the quality of oil and go to one step higher 5w40 like I ran in my 14 ecoboost tremor.
Hoping it was better news like it was just a bad starter or bad ground cable .
Yea I’ll echo what GooseTuned said - this was just with a stage 1 Cobb tune after 1 week of running it.This is very true. Crap does just happen, sometimes. And it sucks.
I want to add a couple things though:
1. He wasn't running my tune, and..
2. This would've happened with a tune installed or not.
There was an underlying issue here in this case. I asked the OP to check his oil level. Waiting to hear back
Could also be numerous other issues that will just have to wait until the teardown happens. Bad fuel? (this is out of everyones control). Maybe he has a cracked/faulty oil pickup? Or maybe he actually has low oil? Could be a bad oil pump? We don't know at this point. What we do know is that a soft off the shelf tune won't break the truck, that this was going to happen without a tune. It does suck, for sure. It looks like Ford may help in this case.
No indication when it happened other than warnings going off on the dash. I had been driving for about 2 hours in crappy conditions and it had a bit to warm up in the morning. Didn’t notice any noises or anything dramatic. Looked at my gas mileage figuring I would notice something there if the truck had been running poorly. Avg 15.7mpg in 4A is about all I can ask for. Oil level was fine but it looked like I was ready for an oil change which I was about due for one.Seized motors do happen . Crap just happens. Could of been an oil supply issue or a rod let go . Piston broke. Until they identify root cause. When this happened how long had engine been running? Was it fully warmed up? Were you just slowing driving in a blizzard? How was your oil level? Were you hearing any noises?
As far as tune don't ask don't tell. Was tune only mod on truck? Unless tune was causing detonation you could hammer out your bearings or break stuff.. Which I highly doubt cobb and goose tunes have all the safety stuff enabled . Tune did add probably 4 psi more boost than stock which is more load. I assume driving normally in a snowstorm I doubt you were in heavy boost.
I'm not a fan of variable pressure oil pump driving 80+ mph at 2000 rpm and 23 psi oil pressure. I don't know Seems low. Then when you come stop it goes to 30 psi idling in drive. Then under load its 70psi or more. Ford engineered that for themselves CAFE standards increase fuel mileage over the fleet. Guess I'm just old school like to see oil pressure being consistent. I have been running motorcraft 5w30 synthetic and filter . Dealer serviced every 2500miles . But I think after watching banks power videos on oil on youtube . I'm going to step up the quality of oil and go to one step higher 5w40 like I ran in my 14 ecoboost tremor.
Hoping it was better news like it was just a bad starter or bad ground cable .
Koons would buy the salvage title, buff it up and sell for only a +$5k ADMAt this point op prolly set fire to it and claimed insurance.