forddieseldoctor

Yes. That does suck when you are trying to work under a dash and everything is plastic. Along with aluminum body panels.

There is a tsb on some of them for cracked oil pump drive gear. That usually makes a knock or tick noise though.

Sad to say… I’m already there. And I’m only 37. Doesn’t bother me too much as I’m usually fairly anti-social. But it pisses my wife off to no end.

Kind of curious as to what is happening across the industry for hearing protection. I personally wear ear plugs just about all day every day. I have noticed that most of my co-workers don't seem to care about the importance of hearing protection.

My thoughts are if there is not a code for that sensor. Don’t worry too hard about it. I’m pretty sure that hotline will tell you that it is a glitch in either the pcm programming or the ids. I scanned through ppt RD for this code. It tells you to check the other egr temp sensor for bias along with a bunch of other temp sensors. My suggestion is to ignore it and go through the ppt for the code that is present.

Curiosity…. How did it pass ppt ka with a broken turbo shaft?

In my mind a first accel in the morning issue like this could very easily be caused by a dirty or flat out messed up maf sensor. I usually try to find another truck to swap a known good one in.

15,700 miles on my 17 fusion cost me $1900. 5700 miles on my 00 7.3 cost me $1850. But the 7.3 was mostly towing or hauling.

We got the 26th and the 2nd off.

Interesting. Never saw the point of spending the money on a Fluke. I got a Matco one that is almost 20 years old. Does everything I need and more. Interesting thing is the amp meter on it is rated for 20 amps. And the couple times I have popped the fuses in itI didn’t have to go buy expensive fuses to fix it. But in all fairness for most of what I get to diag for electrical I grab my power probe instead of the meter. Networks and seat heater pads still do get the meter though.

That is one hell of a lift. Has your dealership thought about getting a set of portables?

Wow. That is special.

I’ve done a few dozen of them, had 3 come back leaking a second time and one of them leaking a 3rd time. The one that leaked 3 times is a fleet truck for a local concrete company the last time it had 150k on it and 8000 hours. We replaced the ccv breather box every time and looked at the amount of blow-by. One of the ones that came back a second time had a plugged up ccv breather. When you removed the oil cap with it running there was an audible pop.

I know Uncle Henry won’t like it…. But I could see throwing a gasket pan on in place of a glue pan that keeps leaking. It seems that either they never leak or they keep leaking no matter what you do to reseal them. Or at least that’s my observation.

Sounds like it to me.

What year is your truck?

Yikes

Hmm… interesting. Dunno how I feel about that. Dunno if it would fix the issues with it or make them worse.

10 gallons worth. At least what we could get out of it. Welcome to the land of everlasting rattles.

Nuts nuts and more nuts.

Another bus got disassembled this weekend.

I can only imagine. I just think about what I’ve seen in the 18 years I’ve been doing this stuff.

Got a transit bus with a twisted off axle shaft, 3 focuses and 1 fiesta waiting on tcm’s, a 15 superduty 6.2 with a backordered pcm, a 12 mustang that we finally got a pcm for today, a 2020 f450 sitting with the trans on the floor waiting for a cdf hub. And 3 more vehicles out there waiting for trans to get torn apart for suspected cdf bushing failures. Plus a steady stream of other stuff that no one else in my shop is qualified to do.

Nice job

That’s exactly how I feel about it. Hotline has become a last resort.