Bearsixty7
Veteran Member
Started up my '97 F250 7.3L once and it shook and sounded terrible! I shut it off, checked all the gauges looked under the hood and couldn't figure out what happened. Started it again and it ran fine. This happened a second times weeks later and I repeated the whole process and when discussing with some fellow Powerstroke owners they said it was running backwards and it was because I wasn't holding the key on long enough to make sure the starter rotated the engine the correct way long enough to fully fire. I never put it in gear to confirm. From then on I always just held the key on a second longer and it never did it again.