RyanG

Its been a couple of years but if I remember was in the 8 to 10 hour range. Worst part is snaking the cam and crank connectors down the both sides of the engine especially since its an ambulance which I'm sure has dual alternators.

Have not posted in awhile but thought everyone would get a laugh. Came across my youtube recommended. Bill put out over 10 minute rant about how he is fed up and not working on 6.4s anymore. Took him long enough.

Had the same thing a month ago on an ambulance. Ford reman bad out of the box failed position test.

Last one they did a year ago was 1200.00.

Have not tried this method. We have a local service called axle surgeons come out and replace the spindle. Only thing we have to do is strip the hub and parking brake assembly off. The spindle is cut off and they attach a jig and bore out the tube slightly. The replacement spindle is a slip in fit and weld it up. They can match what spindle is required off of the bearing numbers. Next time I get one I'll get some pics.

I have replaced a ton of the older all plastic tubes as well as DPF's when they keep on driving. Piss poor design.

Been using Merc V on the old mans 03 E350 with 4R100 since new flushing every 30k. Has 390K miles and I have never even had the pan off.

My favorite so far is the variable wheel base car using a boat trailer. "And remember... they may not always find ya handsome but they should at least find ya handy".

Someone on the pts boards said something about Ford having Red Green working for them coming up with the fixes. Naturally I was curious to who Red Green is and got on youtube. That shit is hilarious.

In the middle of short blocking and 18 F250 6.7 - Broken piston cooling jet on cyl. 4 10 F550 ambulance 6.4 high pressure turbo seized and plugged DPF 14 F550 ambulance 6.7 with intermittent network concerns 08 E450 ambulance 6.0 with low power complaint a couple of 17 F550's for check engine lights 11 F250 6.7 injectors 17 F750 6.8 cylinder head recall 14 F350 6.7 bitching about mpg 05 F450 6.0 dump truck for coolant leak and low power 00 F550 7.3 ball joints 14 F550 6.7 for SCR codes Same deal here, only guy that works on diesels. Have stuff sitting here for close to a month. Had 3 towed out last week, could not get to them fast enough. Its been like this for awhile now, starting to get burnt out.

I was told that Ford no longer owns it by our warranty admin. but we don't know who has taken over. He has gone rounds with them many times as well. They seem to be experts at wasting peoples time.

Yes. I unbolt everything so its ready to be removed. Loosen the CAC boots and take the 4 engine cross member bolts out, lower it a few inches and it will slide out the driver side. Be careful when lowering the engine, the crank pulley will touch the cooling fans so not to much or you might damage them. Good luck.

I would say minimum 12-15 and do it with the cab off. Being up north its safe to say there is a good amount of rust plus it gives you room to slide the turbo inlet pipe back off of the manifold flange. When it comes to getting the broken fastener out it doesn't make a difference in how big of a pain in the ass its going to be cab on or off. If its not broken off too deep in the head you might want to try tack welding the end of the bolt to build up enough metal to grab it with a turbo extractor socket instead of drilling. Good Luck.

Don't forget the sub frame bolts that are always fucking seized in the control arms. I have done 2 EGR coolers, DEF heater and finished up a rear main seal on a 3.7 gasser last week. Our gas heavy repair guy and myself are always buried but I offered to help him out anyway. This fuckin place is really starting to get under my skin. Nobody in this place wants to work or help out unless its easy money so everything that is deemed too hard or time consuming by the gravy queens gets dumped off on a few select individuals no matter how busy we are. Sorry, just venting a little.

I thought the Ethos does not have functional tests or bidirectional control capability.