Which CPS

[cleatus12r]

The pink ones are the best.

If anyone really thinks that there is much of a difference, I'll be the first to disagree.
I've had them all for varying lengths of time (never had a failure though) and NEVER had anything change from one to the next.

[rammertide07]

I wish I was as fortunate as you. But like I've said, I went through 2 grey cps's in 1 year. I did not have any problems with my truck until Ford swapped the cps on me when i took it in for a leaky fuel bowl valve. If there is not that much of a difference in the cps's then what was the point in the recall? Only thing I can think of is that perhaps the 02-03 trucks might have had a problem and they did the recall for 99-03. I know the magnet in the black cps is a lot stronger than the magnet in the grey cps.

[cleatus12r]

Originally Posted by rammertide07

If there is not that much of a difference in the cps's then what was the point in the recall?

The trucks would die while driving. As we've found, this happens with ANY of the camshaft position sensors in use today regardless of color. However, since so many people were having trouble with the 7.3L stalling while driving, Ford made an effort to quell the anger of the customer by replacing the sensors free of charge. The color is simply there to give an at-a-glance identifier of the most recent iteration.

[rammertide07]

Well I wish they still offered the black cps. I don't care if it was pink, just as long as the insides were the same. While I know it will give out one day, it has a better track record with me (and what seems many other SD owners) of not causing the truck to cut out going down the road and completely giving out.

[907DAVE]

I had bought into the "blue" CPS hype a few years back. After learning they might have an effect on timing I threw it into the glove box as a spare. When the original CPS started going out on the dually I replaced it with the blue sensor. 3 months later the new blue sensor went out, now I am rockin the recall grey sensor, and have not noticed anything different.

[rammertide07]

Yea, I dont like the idea of running the blue cps (I think its for the DT466). I saw a video of a guy on youtube that posted a video of his truck ideling with that cps and it sounded sick, like the timing was off. I think bad timing mixed with tuning would be a bad thing. I've been looking for the International version for the DT444, but there seems to be 2 different part #'s. I was doing most of the research on my phone which can be a headache at times. Now I'm back on the PC so gonna do some more digging. If all else fells, I have a lightly used grey CPS in the glove box.

[rammertide07]

Ok, I found a source of the original black one. If it truely is the right one, I'm going to buy more. It's the same part # of the one I got from RiffRaff. Thanks for ya'lls input.