jaysonfordtech

Guys this thread is dead and gone, but I hope there are some of you who got to retire out of this.

Thanks Keith for allowing us former technicians to continue being part of the site. I still try to keep up with whats going on in the business.

I got the car bug at 15 and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do for a living. A trade was the only way out of the hood and the poverty I grew up in. I went to tech school. I spent 10 years bending wrenches at the dealers, who treated me as good as a guy could ask for. Ford was good to me and allowed me to get a lot of training and sent me on trips and sent countless atta-boys. I found that my body would not hold up for another 20 years and decided to go back to school. I got to be a service advisor for about 2 years and learned how the other side of the desk works. I am just about to finish up my bachelor’s degree in financial economics this December. I still keep up with the field as much as I can and enjoy reading broadcast messages a few times a week, check out automotive news every day, and drop by here regularly. I still have love for the industry, and miss it a bit. Take care of yourselves guys, you only get one body.

2000 focus dohc is my driver 2003 taurus 3.0 2 valve is my wifes driver 1986 ranger 2.9l manual 2wd is the utility rig brother drives 1991 escort gt sister in law drives 2002 focus wagon dohc bought the taurus new paid a combined $2200 for the other rigs

Had one in for its first lof. Wow that is one expensive lof. It also had an oil leak, tech could not trace without dye, customer on his way to AK. so we cleaned and added dye for him. We asked that he stop at a dealer north of us for inspection.

I know that customers are able to access fmc workshop and evtm's on motorcraft.com for a fee. My dealer now refers all customers who call or come in for info to that site. That site has an Espanol option at the bottom, from there I have no idea, its greek to me.

So why is it ok for us and our friends to pollute the environment in excess of legal standards, but not for the evil corporations? Is heart disease, cancer, and asthma different if it comes from my "buddy's" truck?

Wow.

Ya they sure were great lol. Ever work on, or drove a Think? The EV1 was not really any better. Ever wonder what all that nickel in the Toyota hybrids does to the environment. Do a little research, its nasty. There are externalities for everything. Right now there is a huge demand for energy dense small size electrical storage at just about any marketable cost and still we can’t yet get there from here. The death of the EV1 was just a small road bump on the path to the future. The internal combustion also killed the electric car back at the beginning of the 1900’s.

We do 5% of the labor upsold on a ticket customer pay for the tech who did the inspection. Works out ok for the guys doing diesel warranty work, as they are often over 36000 miles and can get some retail work sold on them. we do spiffs every 2 weeks. Some of the guys get a fair bit of $$.

I would be looking into fuel filters and flow. I have seen on lots of vehicles over the years filters that are restricted or pumps that fail causing similar concerns.

cracked pickup tube perhaps, also I would be looking to deadhead the pump and see max pressure.

Yes a 6.0 or 6.4 is what I would want to go into battle with. lol! On clearance???????

We have been looking into this to make a blanket decision. If one looks at motor alldata online and compares the warranty time and the retail time there is no matrix that they use. On some jobs they have double the warranty time, others its less than 10% up on warranty time. With the aftermarket warranty companies we work with we use motor alldata or SLTS x 1.4 the higher of the 2.

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