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I've seen it. But the root cause was low oil pressure. The oil pressure dropped while the pin was unlocked and it was unable to lock the pin. Truck ran horrible and when I went to restart it you could hear that the compression wasn't right.

I got a 6.0 in a f-series that we suspect has a loose crank trigger wheel. It starts bucking if and when it wants to. Ficm sync starts switching back and forth between yes and no. Let off the throttle and it clears up. I missed it on the timing tool, but the pattern shows it's a half tooth off on the crank. Guy don't wanna spend the money to fix it right now.

Never say never. There has been a few that I haven't been able to get with a welder.

Ouch. There was a string of cat thefts in the area last summer. They got 5 vehicles in one night.

Try welding a 3/8 nut to it. By the time you get the nut filled you get tons of heat into the stud.

Thats cool. Sucks to have to deal with the mess.

I had an e-series shuttle bus that had a broken park switch. Had 4 amps of draw after the key was off and out of the ignition. But if you hooked the battery up and didn't turn the key on you had normal leves of draw. IC was using the can network to keep the pcm relay powered up.

The only one I couldn't get out of a head was on a 6.4. But I've taken busted studs and even a thread chaser out of many other things with the welder.

That sucks. I've had a couple of bad ones recently too. But I managed to get them out.

We don't get many 6.4's by us. I don't know if it's good or not.

Om '08 and older models, yes. On '09 and up E-Series with the newer style cluster no.What he said. ^^^Plus if the park light doesn't light up when it's in park the insturment cluster will keep the pcm on and kill the battery really fast.

It's supposed to be in the 40's and 50's for the next 10 days. We have very little snow. I collected for plowing for the winter yesterday and I barely made enough to cover the maintence on the plow and the truck.

I can see that. It makes you feel real good about yourself when he starts talking to you like that in front of everyone else in class. Don't worry Keith we ain't getting out of hand. Yet... It's supposed to get below zero again tonight. The sun was bright enough that it melted the top 1/2 inch of frost out and left ruts where my wife decided to drive across the grass.

Yeah but how many tech's are gonna read the book or even follow a pinpoint test for hubs on a superduty. If you don't know that it's switched from pulse vacuum to constant vacuum and don't bother cracking the book. One might be inclined to replace a module or solenoid thinking that it's getting hung on constantly instead of dumping vacuum after the allotted time is up.

And look up the pto circuit in the body builder book. If you put power to it in park with the parking brake pedal pushed down just enough to turn the light on it will run the engine at about 1250 rpm's. But it's only on 05 and up.

I have a thermostat housing that's already gutted that I keep. And when you're into it anyway the flush procedure really don't take that long to complete. Plus once you do a couple you get the hang of it. I don't remember if it says in the directions or not, but I fill it with half capacity undiluted coolant and then top it off with water. And make damn sure it gets run enough to mix the coolant if it's anywhere near freezing.

Not trying to be an ass, but they have this nifty little thing called a workshop manual.

As Peter at the Chicago training center would say. "It's called product knowledge for a reason. Now that you just fucked away a bunch of time figuring out that it's working normal. How does that make you feel?"

I thought that was only for 11 and newer.

I got an 02 sport trac with a clutch that's kicking my ass trying to bleed. Also got an 06 f150 with no reverse and no manual 1 engine braking and an 11 f550 with a 6.7 dump truck with what I believe to be a broken exhaust valve.

Look in the workshop manual under cooling system general procedures for the flush procedure. I use the pto wire to hold the rpm up instead of tying up an ids for an hour. I also have an extra apcm for the 03's and 04's that don't have a pto circuit. And yes the labor time was way light to have performed the flush on top of the repair. I would highly recommend running oasis on everything. You never know what you're gonna find. It wouldn't hurt to bring up all tsb's for each year of the 6.0's and scan through them as you get time.

I take it you didn't flush the cooling system when you were done? I do every one that gets either head gaskets, oil cooler or egr cooler.

Pulled a cab on an 05 F-150 today to pick the busted spark plug chunk out the #8 cylinder. Found out it's a limited edition Jetson's truck.

That's awesome. Gas or diesel?

I put a greasable rear u-joint in a shuttle bus. I took a big black marker and wrote it on the underside of the hood.