Posted by bc on June 07, 2009 at 22:06:33 from (71.158.210.217):
Hi guys. Just had a strange one happen late this afternoon. Had a sprayer loaded in the back of my 2000 ford f150 and have been spraying the pasture this weekend. Driving along in 4x4 low range to go slow and drove over a tree limb or something in the grass, heard a couple bumps, then it went a few for feet and died. Tried to start it and it acted like it wasn't getting any gas. Thought I damaged the fuel line but didn't smell any fuel. Grass was too high to look under. Got the tractor and pulled it up by the barn. Wife had it in neutral.
Looked underneath, cleared out the brush, and fuel line was ok. Looked further and outside the frame on the driver side there is an exposed wiring harness along the frame rail. Between the front wheel and the door the frame rail has a U channel frame mount. Well something drove that wiring harness into the U channel.
Pulled the cover off, and found 22 wires, 9 cut in two, 5 smashed, and 8 were bent but seemed ok. I bet 2 of them went to the fuel pump.
Luckily I had a box of butt connectors. Between rain storms and using a trouble light, I put in the 14 butt connectors.
Reconnected the battery and it started right up. However the overdrive off light on the shifter was flashing off and no matter how many times I tried the button, the off sign kept flashing off. Shifted into 2wd high. Put it into drive and it didn't really want to go and the engine was bogging down and didn't act like the torque converter was barely engaging. Same for reverse. Shifted into 4wd high and same thing for forward and reverse. Shift into 4wd low and it will drive around in forward and reverse with all the power and torque I want and I definitely feel the torque converter kick in when I shift gears.
Anybody got any ideas? I left it out at the farm and will go check it tomorrow night. Guess I'll check all my butt connections for continuity, double check that I got the color coded wires right but I'm sure I did that, and them maybe cut the other 8 wires where they were bent a little and install butt connectors there. Guess I'll look over the tranny for any other loose wires. I just left it an hour ago but it just occured to me that I probably should check all the breakers under the hood as well.
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