Mike Jeanotte

Well there intelligence shows in blaming the glowplugs. I think if I posted something like that calling our product a piece of shit. I would be forced to look for a job.

Havent done one in a while but I think they pay the same or less that an F-series. I did several in a row and filled out DDRs and was always told it would be looked into if enough were filled out.

Why is that? Is there SOMETHING in the calibration of 2003 engines that are much less stressful on FICMs? I think this has to do with the fact that the 03 injectors all leak a little fuel into the crankcase. They seam to have less stiction causing less load on FICMs. I also think the emission levels were much more strict on 04 and later expecially in the egr flow requirments. Which causes lots of problems.

Last week had 2 of them hotline said Engineering is currently investagting please monitor Oasis for updates...Im guessing recal.

I just had one same code same concern went through the same diagnosis. This tank was almost full and fluid looked milky. Cust denied adding anything that would be incorrect....Only had 3500miles on truck. Talked to hotline about it they said they also have had customers adding DEF fluid to the fuel tank and taking out the entire high pressure fuel system.

You Win.

I had one with a surge and cam sensor codes with headgasekt failure and a chip. I suspected wire harness I removed chip from truck and it ran good I suspect the antifreeze got into the module causing problems.

Hey Robert I took the tanks off that radiator didnt see much a little casting sand probablly from when the truck was new. But it looked pretty good I know I cleaned the outside of the cooling stack and I think you guys did also. Dosent make a lot of sense but hopefully its taken care of. With this rain coming through Im pretty sure there will be at least a Grand Forks truck coming down with a lack of power. You know how this business goes we complain when were busy and complain when were slow.

Truck came in during colder temps around 30 deg with fan running often. Monitor ect and eot were around 205-210 replace t-stat cust needed truck asked to see if it made any differenct came back about 2 weeks later said fan still runs often. temp same I remove the tin grill inserts cust had road test temp around 200 deg and fan didnt run any more. cust took truck. About a month later cust stated it over heated. He was uanble to bring in right away but is was very random temp on gauge peged 3 time in 4 days. He stated temp on t-stat housing was 300-350 the various time he checked it. but was not pushing any coolant out and fan was running. I remove water pump didnt find any problems. Service manager and I decieded to replace water pump and replace t-stat again, Truck made it about 1 week and gauge peged again, this time cust said it did push out some coolant. I replace fan clutch we drove little over 100 miles with no problems. Cust is not convinced we fixed it. and we may not have. Any Ideas Hotline said if coolant temp was 350 deg stand pipe should be melted and engine should be damaged. Coolant and oil do not smell burnt. No damage to stand pipe Tried wiggle wiring to sending unit no problems found. Cust needs truck due to their busy season. and is unable to leave with us for very long. Have prefomred flow tests that I know of and everything seems ok. I would think if it was low or excessive flow It would act up more often than every 400 miles. This engine is a reman that was installed about 70,000 miles ago. Any Ideas.

Well I do not know who the dieseldoc is I was just waiting for my prior approval on some injectors thought Id check out whats going on over here and stumbled on this topic. I was shocked and Im not sure if that is the attitude of the company he represents or his personal opinion either way it should be addressed. Me and my advisor put forth extra effort for his company as a customer and I believe our whole store does. NO fights were intended to be started.

My though to the round vs oval parts of the bridges is to make up for any possable wear in the valve guides of the 2 valves that the bridges are on???

dieseldoc Im sorry your unhappy but I can tell you that when a Butler truck get dropped off it is still top priorty many other trucks get pushed aside to help you guys out. When we get busy like we have been for the last couple of months it does get harder fit everyone in cause everyone needs there truck ASAP. If it continues to be a problem come and talk to Brad and it will be taken care of in the best way possable Im sure.

I had one just last week. It was an 07 with about 35,000 miles. I remove the filter housing removed the fitting in the filter housing that the fuel line attaches to Used a female air hose addapter the ones that are on the ends of you air tools. It threaded on pretty good to the fitting attached it to the fuel line with warm engine and block heater plugged in I removed the t-stat without draining coolant first to keep coolant level near top of port. Hook up shop air to fitting after about 20minutes I had bubbles out coolant from left head. I only replaced 1 head witch was ok due to being unable to remove cab. And oddly enough I have a 7.3L in my stall right now with same probelm. But years ago I built a Bridge of sorts to remove cups with out pulling heads.

We had one here with the porcelain broken off and stuck in the sleeve we took a long metal rod sharped it to a point and tapped the procelain with the engine running trying to break it into small pieces after a while the whole thing shot out of the spark plug hole. Just make sure you dont have you head over the hole when your doing it.

Those guys came through my dealer one Saturday I was here. All 3 wanted fuel filter replaced the lube guys did it and one of them would not start I looked at it ended up being air in the system that we all have since learned can be a problem. Talked to one of the drivers quite a bit he was pretty cool. He gave me a bunch of t-shirts. He said they were from advertising not engineering. And all 3 trucks they were driving were preproduciton. He let me know some of the problems they were having. He said for a while there was a reprogram every week for the trucks. Along with some cracked exhaust pipes just like what happened to the 6.0l but he said there were changes made to the pipes. If you go to insidesuperduty.com there is some movies to watch during the road test. All the trucks had cameras mounted to the dash and when they were running around the dealer here someone always had a camera rolling. Til the one truck would not start.

Have a 2006 F-250 18,000miles has almost no heat at idle about 85-100deg outlet at the vent. Rev engine up and get good heat almost imediatly It has been below 0deg for a while around here. This is when the problems showed up. Had low flow through heater core tried new t-stat heater core and a water pump talked to hotline about 5 times. Talked to our FSE and our area 6.0l guy. They both called everyone they knew unable to get any help. Anyways with heater hoses unhooked we were checking flow with a known good one. had no flow through heater hoses at idle. Removed front cover found the upper holes in block that is the return out of the block were plugged shut with casting flashing. Was able to break casting loose with hammer and punch. The part that really amazed me is that this cant be the only one out there. Everyone out there I talked to didnt have any good diagnosis leading to problem. So if anyone has one.......

Someone must have stolen all of your nuts and washers. The only relay we sell has all the nuts washers and wire connector. Cause like you said some the relays come in burnt.

My thoughts exactly on the top side creaper. Looks like fun

Low ICP% is usually a stuck ipr as most everyone knows but I like to change oil first. Thick slugged up oil will do the same.

I heard the delay is due to the new diesel fuel not being available. And even with a January launch Ford will probably be giving out fuel treatment with the sale of the truck.

I had a replacment turbo do the same thing but came out of it without the help of any fine adjustment tool. I heard that the early ones were sticking cause they were coated with a rust protectant (you know that sticky stuff)and the exhaust was sticking to it causing problems.

Me and my service manager went to a 6.0l 5 hour refresher class. The instructor had the power point presentation that showed up on the web. He also has some extra info as he had just come back from Detroit. He talked about the DPF?? particulate filter in the exhaust he said the eng will go into an over fuel stragity to super heat the filter and clean itself out and later models may have an actual injecor in the exhaust to super heat and clean filter. The power point says that the 6.4l with be 90% cleaner that the 6.0l and in 2010 or 2012 the eng will have to be 90% cleaner again. There was a time study to remove the 6.4l with cab off it took 23 hours with cab on it took 40 hours. Sounds fun huh. He also said that several but not all dealers will be forced to buy an oven to clean the exhasut filter at a cost of around $16,000.

I have also worked on a 2006 F-350 that has been on the road about 5 months first repair put the conneciton on the high pressure pump that blows out second repair about 3 weeks later put 4 or 5 injectors due to plugged fuel filters the first repair the truck had 72,000 the second had 96,000. He wasent from my area but I hope he comes back I would like to see how long it lasts and what repairs he has to make.

I worked on a cube van that the last i saw it had over 700,000 miles I think I did brakes on it a couple of times a year. I also worked on another E350 that had over 450,000. The owner also said he has 2 others with 650,000 and 1,200,000 All of these were delivery vans that didnt pull a lot and recieved regular maintence.