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The next time I have to remove a 6.4L I think I'm doing it this way. I liked Benny Hill as a kid but my mom sai it gave her nightmares and she really didn't want me watching it.

I used to install a clear hose at the injector pump spliced into the return line. If the fuel system is sucking in air, you'll see it there.

I'm kidding! I've too have little money to spend (2 daughters, one with braces, one doing gymnastics and a wife with a degree and no job). The broken impact I bought online eight years ago, and I was willing to spend a little bit more to buy it from my tool guy but my cost on the gun was cheaper than his.

Well said. A little off subject but, I've always wondered about the 'oil leaks' on the 6.0L's. It seems like all the bed plate gaskets I was resealing was for some engine that has like ONE drip of oil on the bell housing. I've always thought that if this same engine was in a tow truck or a delivery truck it wouldn't be worth the customer's time to have me fix a teeny leak like that.

I wanted to wait until I was done with the truck to update this. It looks like a lifter came apart in this engine and some hack tried to replace lifters without removing the cylinder heads. The headgaskets were all mangled, but the real problem was the retainers that hold the lifters in place (into the lifter bore in the block) and keep them from turning. One of them was broken in two pieces and both of those lifters were out of their bores, bent push rods, valve hitting piston, etc. I found extra lifter pieces in the oil pan and pick up, and also another half of a lifter retainer. That’s what damaged the oil pump and front cover. What a freaking mess!

I meant getting the part to you lol.After reading what I wrote it comes across differently. Thanks Aaron.

I've got a cheap knock-off made in China called Ingerson Rand. It works just the same though. It seems like they just sell parts fr electrical tools there. Maybe I'll just but a new impact.

Thanks man. I might see if they'll sell me the part but I can't justify sending my impact out to them for a simple repair. My issue is more just getting the part. Thanks though, I appriceate it.

Hey guys, I've for a broken IR2131 impact wrench and I'm having a hard time finding the part online. The hammer case is broken-P/N2131A-A727. I was just getting done with a side job and my impact fell from the alignment wrack and shattered the end piece. Right away I realized all my hard work that night was for nothing! If anyone can help direct me to a web page where I could buy the part I'd appriceate it.

DAMN!!!

That's a great qoute. Totally true though.

That's interesting. So the injectors are the same, but they couldn't handle the Ford programming. Up Time- is that kind of like if you've got one apart and you know there's an updated STC fitting and an EGR baffle so you go ahead and make the reapir even though it's not in for that problem?

Well we all know that the 6.0L has been a thorn in the side for Ford and us as technicians. I’m curious though; this engine was used in more heavy duty applications before it was in an F-series or Econoline, right? Did it have so many problems in an International chassis? I was told by a Ford instructor a long time ago that the 6.0L is an International engine with Ford software that has caused it to be used beyond its limit, but is that really the case? Are the fuel injectors different for Ford or International applications? What about the EGR system, does International use the same EGR system? What about headgaskets? I know F650, F750’s don’t have that problem.

I had an IDI ambulance 9 years ago that I was pulling my hair out over. Apparently I had a rash of bad injector pumps because they were sitting on the shelf for so long. I ended up putting three injector pumps on it until I got a good one. Even back then it was impossible to find anyone on hotline that knew anything about the IDI system. Also, the fuel pickups rust out and suck air into the system.

I'm glad you're making a good recovery!

I was able to look in the cylinder with the boroscope with a limited view because the plug hole is so narrow. I blew it out really good, both from the spark plug hole and through the exhaust pipe. With air blowing into the cylinder through the exhaust valve If it was in there I should have seen it blowing around. I ended up satisfied that the teeny piece of metal was no longer in the cylinder, put a new plug in it and it was fine. Yeah, I use the Lisle tool too. I like it but I think the tool that presses the porcelain down has a tendency to break the electrode and porcelain.

I had a few of these with a lot of miles that would overheat intermitently and I was never able to verify them. It turned out that they had plugged radiators.

Has anyone ever extracted a 3 valve spark plug on a 5.4L and find thet the tip of the electrode has broken on both sides and is missing? I've had plenty break where the electrode is broken on one side, but it doesn't break off. I blew air in the cylinder several times, blew shop air throught the exhaust pipe and out of the spark plug hole. I can't see it in the cylinder I'm hoping that it came out with the compressed air.

The vehicle is a 2012 and it does fall into the job aid model year.

Be careful guys because I just got burned. Not because I didn't see the job aid, but because I did. It's wrong; it incorrectly shows on a chassis cab how the EGT13 is after EGT14, so if you're looking at the diagram on a chassis cab it will be EGT11, EGT12, EGT14, and EGT13. But on a puck up it's how you would expect in order from 11 to 14. On the chassis cab I’m working on EGT13 is before EGT14.

I've seen some weird problems with the CMP sensors that we installed in 2007 for the FSA. Obviously check your CMP circuits. Maybe that's your problem but like Jim said, it might be better to tell them not to use the radio in the truck.

I've never seen that before, doe it just go over the original pan?

There is a little damage to the pump, and a decent amount of damage to the front cover. This thing needs to come apart, inspect main bearings, maybe even find out what went through the oil pump.

Yeah, It's regular black diesel oil. I just got authorization to remove the oil pump, so I'll do that tomorrow. The truck only has 160,000 miles but it is a little modified.

That's right, with this engine idleing I have ZERO oil pressure, 12psi @3300RPM. This thing shouldn't be running without oil pressure so I'm a little confused. Aside from the pump or main bearings that are worn out is there anything else that could cause this?