7.3 excursion keeps dieing wife ready to divorce

[snowman]

Ok 03 7.3 excursion, dies at idle waiting for the green light or coasting down hill, no warning lights, or any indications from the motor, just dies, after sitting for a couple hours or after unloading from the tow truck it will start and act normal, replaced batteries, alt, and cps with in 1 month, does not happen all the time, no codes showing at all, I'm am lost and wife is NOT happy has happened to her once and me twice, any ideas?? please help thanks snowman

[Austinj427]

What color cps was it replaced with?

when it dies it wont start???

[terryknight]

it sounds like a cps to me. some are better than others. there a long discussion on here about them.

[snowman]

I had the dealer replace the cps under recall about 16 months ago, and then I replaced a grey one cps with a black one from auto zone 4 days ago, also when it dies it will not restart for while some where around 20 minutes or so.

i got a new CPS from autozone and it ended up being bad, got one from international and its all good.

also is there oil in the ICP connector, also could be a bad IPR...

[snowman]

The motor developed a small oil leak a while back from the hpop o rings just a couple drips when you stop. oil level is fine

[forddieseldoctor]

the "new" gray cps sensors do still fail. just not as high of a fail rate. the good thing is they are alot cheaper then they used to be. check codes, if it's the cps sensor then there should be a code stored in the pcm. what kind of code reader are you using?

[snowman]

No codes using a cheapy scanner, and had a friend use his really good scanner and still no codes