My dad's 2013 3.5 ecoboost is doing this on his 2nd engine since the first blew head gaskets or something at about 95k. Turbos started chirping and wastegates flopping. It died on the road and barely ran. I went to check it out, and pulling the pcv tubes off the intake looked like a constant nitrous purge out of the crankcase, lol. It ran smoother, but two freight train style oil geysers blowing everywhere is bad! I'm not sure if it's the same thing as you had, but it sounds similar. Thought a turbo was bad, but the crankcase is extremely pressurized.... leading me to believe metal somewhere broke, lol.
Initial thoughts, PCV check valve, if these have one, may have gotten stuck open under boost forcing a bunch of crank case pressure into the turbo… ???
I'm having the same issue on my truck, same engine, same year. I got it inspected by the dealership and multiples shops, no one found any issue in my truck. No lights, no codes, a lot of black smoke, miss firing, lack of power. Everything that you had on your truck I'm facing it on mine now.
I had this issue. Same year model and engine as yours, it was the driver side turbo. Had a coolant leak internally and would smoke out the whole neighborhood in the mornings, I would get power train malfunction lights on the dash and the code would read P-0299 for turbocharger underboost. I changed both of them and the problem went with them. Hope this helps
Same symptoms on my 2015 f150! Now I have a slow coolant leak that's non visible and 50% turbo power. So I checked the intercooler like you did, same same with the oil in it. Only difference in the whole scenario is I did have oil loss. Only during that ONE event😅. Now it's fine and steady.
Don't know if you fixed your issue. I have same truck and exact same thing happened to me. I found Ford TSB 20-2207 that provides that issue was the Left Turbo Oil Supply Tube. I replaced that part and so far seems to have fixed problem. We shall see
I have had a catch can on mine fir years mine has around 50,000 miles and just started smoking the can catches about a inch of oil about every month my engine doesnt show any signs of leaking oil or antifreeze i don't know why thus usnt a recall ni we that i have been looking this is really a common problem.
I have a 2016 F-150 same issue but I don’t lose power. But the smoke (blue/black) is so bad I have to get it fixed because people literally would not be able to see behind me and the plume is long behind me. It stops and I’m able to continue driving but lord. A shop looked at my turbos and said the shaft and fins were ok and not a lot of oil. It happens infrequently I have no loss of oil or pressure no check engine lights. I have replaced my PCV but I’m not expecting a fix by a $12 part. The shop replaced my drivers side oil supply line but again that is supposed to be a fix for a cold start blue smoke issue and the big issue happened since that supply line was installed, so that had no effect either. Ford…a little help here!
im sure you fixed the issue by now, you seem way smarter than me over this subject. but if i put my thinking cap on, i'd be looking at doing that 1/8 drill hole in the intercooler mod... the engine sucked up oil that was collecting in the intercooler i assume. so i'd imagine providing a weep hole would bandaid the problem. still gonna leak but the oil is cheap, tow trucks are not... just my theory.. lol I had a problem on my old 03 f150 where if you were to "lug" the truck on the highway the AC would switch from the vents to the defrost. back off the throttle or down shift and it would come back out the vents. blew my mind as a 17yld but it turned out to be some vacuum hose.
mine has ran great for 360k miles.. never had an issue.
oil catch can a must
My dad's 2013 3.5 ecoboost is doing this on his 2nd engine since the first blew head gaskets or something at about 95k. Turbos started chirping and wastegates flopping. It died on the road and barely ran. I went to check it out, and pulling the pcv tubes off the intake looked like a constant nitrous purge out of the crankcase, lol. It ran smoother, but two freight train style oil geysers blowing everywhere is bad! I'm not sure if it's the same thing as you had, but it sounds similar. Thought a turbo was bad, but the crankcase is extremely pressurized.... leading me to believe metal somewhere broke, lol.
Initial thoughts, PCV check valve, if these have one, may have gotten stuck open under boost forcing a bunch of crank case pressure into the turbo… ???
I put the 2.0 catch Can on mind works great it keeps it from doing that
I'm having the same issue on my truck, same engine, same year. I got it inspected by the dealership and multiples shops, no one found any issue in my truck. No lights, no codes, a lot of black smoke, miss firing, lack of power. Everything that you had on your truck I'm facing it on mine now.
I had this issue. Same year model and engine as yours, it was the driver side turbo. Had a coolant leak internally and would smoke out the whole neighborhood in the mornings, I would get power train malfunction lights on the dash and the code would read P-0299 for turbocharger underboost. I changed both of them and the problem went with them. Hope this helps
Same problem same truck but I don’t loose power only oil burn I still trying to fix the problem so if anyone knows a solution thanks!
Same symptoms on my 2015 f150! Now I have a slow coolant leak that's non visible and 50% turbo power. So I checked the intercooler like you did, same same with the oil in it. Only difference in the whole scenario is I did have oil loss. Only during that ONE event😅. Now it's fine and steady.
im having the same issue thick white smoke so was it the turbo?
weep hole? catch can?
Don't know if you fixed your issue. I have same truck and exact same thing happened to me. I found Ford TSB 20-2207 that provides that issue was the Left Turbo Oil Supply Tube. I replaced that part and so far seems to have fixed problem. We shall see
Get yourself a catch can , you’re intercooler probably had so much oil in it it got sucked into the turbo
I have had a catch can on mine fir years mine has around 50,000 miles and just started smoking the can catches about a inch of oil about every month my engine doesnt show any signs of leaking oil or antifreeze i don't know why thus usnt a recall ni we that i have been looking this is really a common problem.
I have a 2016 F-150 same issue but I don’t lose power. But the smoke (blue/black) is so bad I have to get it fixed because people literally would not be able to see behind me and the plume is long behind me. It stops and I’m able to continue driving but lord. A shop looked at my turbos and said the shaft and fins were ok and not a lot of oil. It happens infrequently I have no loss of oil or pressure no check engine lights. I have replaced my PCV but I’m not expecting a fix by a $12 part. The shop replaced my drivers side oil supply line but again that is supposed to be a fix for a cold start blue smoke issue and the big issue happened since that supply line was installed, so that had no effect either. Ford…a little help here!
Mine did the same thing, both turbos were shot and burned 2 quarts of oil in a matter of minutes.
mine has white smoke for quite awhile then clears up is this another problem i just subscibed to your channel great video thanks JEEP guy TC
I have the exact same issue … I think the turbo is bad !!
Had the same yesterday . Towing . And most of oil came out of the exhaust
im sure you fixed the issue by now, you seem way smarter than me over this subject. but if i put my thinking cap on, i'd be looking at doing that 1/8 drill hole in the intercooler mod... the engine sucked up oil that was collecting in the intercooler i assume. so i'd imagine providing a weep hole would bandaid the problem. still gonna leak but the oil is cheap, tow trucks are not... just my theory.. lol I had a problem on my old 03 f150 where if you were to "lug" the truck on the highway the AC would switch from the vents to the defrost. back off the throttle or down shift and it would come back out the vents. blew my mind as a 17yld but it turned out to be some vacuum hose.