2003 Ford F250

[70jimmy]

Figure I would start a thread on this. Purchased July 2025 from original owner, always been in Colorado used to tow a construction trailer for his business until he retired. 123,000 miles, V10. I sold the ladder rack and 2 of the tool boxes it came with.

 

[70jimmy]

This is the main reason we bought it. After owning it for a couple weeks I turned on the AC, which I had used before, just warm air this time, tried recharging but it never cycled on. We had gone 13 miles down a major washboard road the day before. After checking fuses and relays, I realized the clutch was missing off the front of the compressor.

I saw the serpentine belt had alot of cracks so I replaced it, the tensioner and the clutch. Fun, good thing too. Cracks in the tensioner, pulley falling apart. Works again!

Also found a bad vacuum line going to the right front hub.

 

[Fastereddie]

Those seats look amazing for 123kmi.

 

[imiceman44]

This is the main reason we bought it. After owning it for a couple weeks I turned on the AC, which I had used before, just warm air this time, tried recharging but it never cycled on. We had gone 13 miles down a major washboard road the day before. After checking fuses and relays, I realized the clutch was missing off the front of the compressor.

I saw the serpentine belt had alot of cracks so I replaced it, the tensioner and the clutch. Fun, good thing too. Cracks in the tensioner, pulley falling apart. Works again!

Also found a bad vacuum line going to the right front hub.

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My 98 suburban did that, luckily it was just the clutch, the bearing was still holding on though wobbly, so was 3 miles from home thankfully.
I changed the compressor, idlers, tensioner and the belt.

 

[70jimmy]

Seats and dash had covers since new, I took them off after I bought it.

 

[Fastereddie]

Seats and dash had covers since new, I took them off after I bought it.

They definitly did their job!

 

[imiceman44]

Seats and dash had covers since new, I took them off after I bought it.

It's funny, in my experience seat covers means seats are shot.
I forgot some people put covers to protect the seats

 

[70jimmy]

Headlights and auxiliary driving/fog lights were pretty clouded.

 

[70jimmy]

After a little work.

 

[Truckman4life]

Change your plugs out before you blow one out and have to do the thread repair thing. I usually just cap the vacuum lines at the frame connection and run them like normal locking hubs only. The automatic function never works right. Usually the seals in the hubs are shot. You can put a vacuum pump on them to check if you want to.

 

[70jimmy]

Put a new brake controller, wiring harness, and battery in it before Blazer Bash. New wiper blades also.

 

[eclipse85k10]

Clean superduty!
My dad has almost 300k on his v10 in his 2000 excursion, 123k is good!