RyanG

I love dealing with ARI. Quick approvals, not much chewing down on labor, usually pain free to deal with.

Thanks Keith. I've been through all of it with parts. They started a PACO case immediately and will see if that goes to a backorder escalation. The last kit was on emergency and never came, ended up getting a dealer to sell one after practically begging. The customer was furious, truck was 32' F550 limousine and this all happened right before the holidays. Losing 1200 every weekend it was down. The pickup I have now has been here 10 days, customer still ok but as you know that can turn in an instant.

I hear ya Keith. I've gone that route too but there are a couple of items in the kit that I was told by parts manager that are not available at the moment, one being a fuel line. Not that parts would ever make a mistake or exhaust all options to obtain everything. Laziness has become a bigger issue in that department lately.

I don't know what is going on because we recently came across a similar issue. One of the other techs bought a 6.4 F550 flatbed for cheap due to low compression. We tear it apart to a bare block and found cylinder 2 piston melted. The plan was to rebuild so we sent the block out to our machine shop to see if its worth fixing. Next day guy tells us when the engine was reman( this is a Ford FQR that was put in by another local dealer) that half the cylinders were sleeved and one of the cylinders was not bored straight. All in all the block was fucked. So I'm confused as well because I was under the impression that all of the FQR's were spray welded and machined back to original bore spec. I really have no confidence in these remans. especially 6.4's. The last 3 or 4 I've done have all had major issues within 6 months. Only thing that's a bigger piece of shit than a 6.4 is a FQR 6.4.

The backordered parts is absolutely insane. You cannot get the 6.7 install kits anywhere. Any dealer that has them will not sell.

15 King Ranch 6.7 insurance job. Truck went off road and oil filter was ripped off. Insurance company got a complete from a rollover out of Washington state. Drop it in and go for a drive, goes into limp mode. Get it back, pull a P0087. Find rust and metal in the fuel rail. Price a fuel system... Nope, will send you another used engine so up with the cab again. Second engine shows up with no turbo and nothing covering the opening in the block, see a couple of bolts, dirt and water laying in the opening, lower pan is crushed and a giant hole punched through the upper oil pan. Now waiting on a third engine.

15 F350 with hole in the block and upper oil pan

14 F450 dump with v10, missing with a knock knock knock

17 F550 v10 - up fitter installed auxiliary alternator and ran the battery cable tight against brake lines by the HCU. Rubbed through, arced and burned through the brake line.

05 F350 6.0 with intermittent stall out after driving a while

Another 6.0 for a no start

That sucks Keith. I thought Cummins did not allow Ford dealers to perform this kind of work. During the very short time that we were a authorized Cummins dealer, we had an ecm issue on an ambulance and were told that only a Cummins dealer could do any kind of replacement or programming issues dealing with Cummins specific modules.

After what happened with VW you had to know this was coming. All manufacturers are going to be under the microscope and targeted by anyone looking to make a buck. Didn't Chrysler/Fiat get hit with a lawsuit not that long ago over diesel in the Grand Cherokee's?

At this point a timing belt is probably a lot more reliable considering all the chain issues Ford has right now. Other brands use them on diesels without issue. VW has had a lot of success with them, look at the 1.9. When I was at a dealer for a short time we saw a few of these with over 300k. Its much easier to replace a belt every 100k that deal with all the timing chain bullshit that we have now.

In the same position here. Been a one man show for over a year now. I'm always 2-3 weeks behind.

Thanks Joe

Regular customer of mine has a Ram with a nasty clunk in the transfer case in 4x4 when switching from reverse to forward. Fluid looks a little burnt and is full of metal. I have access to wsm through identifix but I don't know what kind of labor for tear down. Writer is pushing for just replacing but I would like to know exactly what happened and see if can be repaired. Priced a new unit from local dealer and thought price of 1240.00 was actually not terrible. If anybody could give me some information it would be appreciated.

They're going to pay us a whole .7. Thanks Ford

No worries,  right now I'm selling the remaining injectors due to hard cold start so will se if maybe another injector is causing the issue on that bank. Should of sold a set originally but at the time it was still staying in the 50's at night and I was unaware of the hard cold start.

Keith, I know this is an old post but I was curious what you ended up finding. I have one right now with same cylinder. Came in missing on 5 and 8. Checked everything as listed above, still showing perdel pid at 6.75, compression at 450 psi for both cylinders. Replaced both injectors and miss went away on 5 but still has little bit of a shake at idle. Off idle runs great.

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Warranty admin. got an e-mail back. Apparently the two reasons for the review was they needed proof of my certification and they had a problem with one of the parts kits that I used. Claim went through but it sounds to me like Ford is really reaching.

Running in to an issue with a claim. Had a 14 550 come in for major oil leak. Found coming from upper pan. Dropped lower pan and found large pieces of bearing material also took a sample of oil from filter and found fine metal particles. When ahead with removal and tear down, found number 3 main bearing coming apart and some very light scoring on the journal. Everything else looked ok, no damage to heads only thing I found was the turbo bearing sounded a little rough. Did a cost cap and found that apparently short blocks and long blocks don't require imaging or prior anymore? Checked with the warranty clerk and he found same thing. Ordered a short block plus a turbo. The only additional parts ordered were the valve train oil spray bars. I figured that some pieces of the bearings could make there way in and plug up one of the holes. The other issue I had was the engine installation kit was incomplete. I have run in to this before and had to order additional parts. The jobs done and gone but were having trouble with the claim going through. Its showing under manual review right now which is not usually a good thing.  Is it possible that I've should have done a crank and bearings? I've done a few 6.7 long blocks under warranty, this is the first short block but I've never had an issue before.

Truck I put a 6.4 drop in a year ago back in. Cooling system full of oil - blowing out of degas bottle. Made it a little over 20k miles. Love that quality.

The only way I could see would be to jack the engine up but with there only being an inch of clearance on top, you would have to take a lot of shit off to have enough room. Wouldn't be worth the effort.  Ive pulled these trannys before we got the plate. You just have to get a little creative with some blocks of wood to get it sitting correctly.

We have seen a few. Had one drop the valve.

I don't worry about the guy next to me. That's what going to separate the techs that are trying to be fair to the customer and the ones that are taking advantage of the customer.

35 hours? That's easily about 10 too much.

I had one a couple of years back for the same code. Hot line said the exact same thing with the fuel rail bullshit. I put a high pressure fuel system in and it took care of the problem. I posted it, It was titled longer than usual crank time.

I have had 5 or 6 customers do this and I have yet to replace anything other than filters. I've seen them run them until they quit. I pump the tank into a 55 gallon drum, fill a diesel can and flush out all the lines, replace filters and fill tank up with fresh fuel and booster. Prime them up and go for a drive, run high pressure fuel pump test and koer test to make sure no problems. I have yet to see a problem or have one come back. One particular truck, they did it twice within 50k miles and ran it until it quit. Truck has clocked over a 100k miles since they filled with gas the second time. With all that being said, I wouldn't tell the guy to worry.