forddieseldoctor

Welcome back. 

Have not had the misfortune of doing one of those yet. Is it on a superduty or escape?

I looked in our catalog. I would tend to agree with that. I noticed the price on it too. I can see why you are questioning it. 

We had one of those too back when the 7.3 first came out. Guy who owned it is an engineer for Ford and he was whining that he wanted lemon law on his too even though it was the only issue he ever had with it. 

Are you looking for the box that sits around the filter housing on the front of the tank?

My Snap on light came back to me today. It spent 21 days stuck to the bottom of a 2016 Superduty. Still had power in it somehow. 

I picked up a 2019 F350 with a 6.7. My question is does the engine hour meter keep running if the truck is sitting koeo or does it manage to know that the engine is not running? I know that the trip meter timers keep running and I noticed that when I had the key on for a half hour Friday night while I was tinkering with some accessories that I installed the fuel mileage history screen completely cleared out all the bars and made everything zero. 

3 hours ago, lmorris said:

Mustang owners are never happy with any service performed to their vehicle. Someone else installed a short throw shifter incorrectly. I had to remove the transmission to replace a loose shift damper and installed the shifter correctly....and I'm the asshole🤪.

That’s always how it goes. You are the asshole in the end. 

Yes they do. However it wants to push it back to windows 8 or windows 7. There is no option for windows 10 compatibility mode in windows 11. 

The only other thing that comes to mind is the cracked exhaust manifolds and the fact that you cannot replace the dipstick tube without pulling the rh motor mount and exhaust manifold.  And yes in the salt states we do replace dipstick tubes on them fairly often. 

Sorry Bruce but other than a broken valve spring early on in the 6.2 era and a bunch of corroded and shorted out coils they have been strong from what I have seen. 

Vcmm is what I use the few times a year that I get something that I actually need it for. I think there is still an old vmm here but it just collects dust. 

Curiosity what is an isolation meter? I am not familiar with that term. 

I got it setup early this morning before work. Had a little trouble getting the VCM3 to connect wirelessly. The only real problem I had was the icons were all messed up looking in IDS and it turns out that was being caused by the insane resolution that my new computer is equipped with.  (1920x1080 which is what my 32" monitor mounted on my tool box runs for resolution)

Just for giggles I decided to bug Hotline via a TIS request about when they are gonna make FDRS and IDS compatible with Windows 11 since most manufacturers are only selling Windows 11 now. I got this response back.

The good news is that they are willing to work with us if we buy a Windows 11 computer and have some issues instead of just saying it's not supported better luck next time. 

Message boards shows there are some guys running it. But when you get that large of a pool the answers you get are sometimes tainted. 
 

My new Lenovo is supposed to show up tomorrow. Probably gonna be a couple days before I get it setup. I will update once I know more. 

Just curious if anyone is using Windows 11 for the diagnostic software? I had to replace my Lenovo that I’ve had at work for 9 1/2 years now and I ended up getting Windows 11 on my new one. 

Pinion bearings that far gone?

Got a 22 F150 with a black radio screen after an ota update. Apim software didn’t load right. Hotline says to put an apim in it. 
 

Interesting side note. If you have to do a tcu module update via the vcm instead of the flash drive you get a message in fdrs that says “Do not attempt this update unless you have a minimum of 12gb of ram installed. If you do not and proceed the program will likely freeze and the update will fail.”

What year is dropping bearings?

Got the man lift floor just about ready to attach to the basket. 

Tomorrow’s project. Working on replacing the bottom of a basket on a high lift. 

Ah the joys of the Allison transmissions. JIC fittings for cooler lines. No stupid clips to rot in place on quick connects.

Gotcha. I also looked in the wsm for an 18 f150 too. It makes sense now. Someone put it in backwards for lack of better terms. 
 

Had a guy who was in my basic electrical class way back 18 years ago who told me about a limo they had that lost an axleshaft because someone ground the c-clip down to get it in. Probably because the wheel stud was against the e-brake shoes and wouldn’t push in far enough. 

Curiosity… what exactly are we looking at? I see it’s an e-locker but I have not had one open yet. 

7 hours ago, mchan68 said:

Exactly the point of my post.

I agree with that. But the amount of plastic in cars and trucks is just as bad as the aluminum body panels in my opinion.