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Originally Posted by Blackout_CTD (Post 821958)

tested the ficm its fine. so i replaced the 3 injectors it started up and ran perfect yesterday and on the test drive. today went on another test drive and it died while driving. hooked up the scanner and it says injector curcuit low on all 8 injectors. the injector plug in on the ficm was zip-tied on when i took it apart. so re zip tied in and it was fine till the 2nd test drive.

also i was reading about which ficm the truck should have the truck is a 12/02 model year and it has a 4 screw ficm. shouldnt it have a 7 screw?

After I had an injector replaced that died in a glorious hail of smoke and sputters, I eventually got codes for all 8 injectors circuit low, including the new one. The root of all of this evil, a bad FICM. I ended up replacing it with aunit out of an 06. My research has revealed to me that all 6.0 FICMs are pretty much interchangable.
If you're referring to mounting screws, my March 03 6.0's FICM mounts with 4. I'm pretty sure that I am off base because my electronics knowledge is pretty low. Didn't think it would hurt to offer it up since you're reading this anyway.

Karl, when we say 7 screw or 4 screw, we're referring to the amount of screws or "pins" under the inspection cover on the FICM itself. The old models had 7, the newer one's had 4. All FICM's were mounted using 4 bolts/nuts though. Though the 03 models had a really nice aluminum bracket that bolted to the valve cover solid, and then the FICM was rubber mounted to that. Ford then changed the design (I assume due to costs) and used stamped steel mounting plates that were rubber mounted to the valve cover and then the FICM was solid mounted to that.