forddieseldoctor

Then they'd have a field day with my stash at work.

Yes it does. I even lifted the left side on the one truck that I did both sides on.

And then just draw the needle where I want it to be?

I don't know if I should say this, but I've never used one. The one at the shop I'm at now musta been washed off with brake clean once cause it's so foggy you can't read it. I've been buying all of my own manual gauges as I need them.

Welcome to my world. I love to throw a set of ear plugs in and ignore everyone else. Annoys the crap out of my co-workers. But I don't notice as much of their stupidity that way.

Seat ain't marred up, it's all black from the valve not sitting tight against it. Their "mechanic" called and had a talk with the service manager today. He's trying to pass the blame. But there's no way that you can throw a bolt down the front of the intake and have it skip over 7 intake holes and drop in the last one. I found the bolt in the next valve pocket forward. I'll try to get it back from the service manager and get a picture of it.

The one I did was an aftermarket hitch and I didn't have to cut the bumper cover and the aftermarket harness that the customer got was just plug and play into the connector on the right rear.

I found the bolt that the last guy to have the intake off dropped and couldn't find. Too bad it got wedged in a valve first. Luckily there's just a very light imprint of the valve on the piston.

I got an 05 with 0 psi on #8. Leaking through the intake valves. Didn't get the head off to look yet.

No. Windows 8 is the DEVIL!

Say woops.

I know the bottle neck feeling. Too much crap that gets to sit and wait for someone to get back to it. I just finished both side exhaust manifolds on a 2000 F-350 yesterday. 7 broken studs on each side. Friday they had me do a "quick" check engine light on a 2012 Escape with 16,000 miles. #6 misfire. 15% low on relative compression. 113 PSI of manual compression without taking the other plugs out. 75 % leakage with air leaking out from exhaust valves. Can push down on one of the exhaust valves with a prybar off of the cam lobe and wiggle the valve side to side about 1/4 inch. I could even see the wiggle with my bore scope in the cylinder. The head will be off of that one tomorrow.

What he said.

Hmm I learned something new today.

You can see the nastyness on the bottom of the oil rail in the video. I've never seen one that looked that bad.

Thats really gonna put a hurt on the drivethroughs if you can't get a hands free burger.

Yeah and just wait till the parts start showing up for the escape subframes.

I love the siliconed on cast deflector shield.

Oh and that tsb never showed up on oasis for the trucks that I've run for the noise just the ssm stating that it's normal after oil changes and will go away in a few hundered miles.

Actually the ones I've had didn't show up until the trucks were 3 or 4 oil changes into their lives. And they don't do it every time. I was just curious if someone managed to get any info out of Ford as to what was actually making the noise.

I know it's an old thread, But did anyone ever figure out exactly what causes the noise? I had a customer grill me about it the other day and I felt stupid cause all I could do was hand him the ssm.

The escape recall tape looks interesting. Have not had a chance to play with it yet.

I've never once considered using my torque wrench to yield bolts. I'll torque them to spec, then use a breaker bar to complete the process...You're not familiar with the snap on wrenches are you? You can set them to measure angle after you initially torque the fastener.

We got helicoils at work. Thats what the shop provides and they ain't gonna change and I'm not gonna make the investment cause I'm not gonna get reimbursed.

Really? Thats shocking. Although most techs today can't weld to save their ass. The other 2 techs in my shop won't even try. And one day the parts guy tried, now that was hillarious.