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.

Progressives only care about the contributors to the next reelection campaign. Conservatives only care about their contributors. We all follow our own self interests, politicians included.

Well boys a the end of a recession is defined by a quarter of growing GDP. We have had that, so the answer is yes. Employment is a lagging indicator. Should we fight the natural movement of work to places that have a strategic advantage in that area? No, we should continue the path of growing our workforce in the areas we have a strategic advantage. We should use the $ we squander on bailouts to retrain employees moved out of the workforce by these structural changes. We will NEVER be better off by walling off ourselves from people who can do something better or cheaper. If i can make 1 green widget or 17 red widgets a day, and someone else can make 1 red widget or 15 green widgets a day, would we not be better doing the things we are good at and trading. so we both have more of all kinds of things. Please study history before looking to protectionism to save jobs. I'm not saying that tariffs are not needed at times, but by and large they destroy more jobs in the aggregate. That being said we are not out of the woods yet. There are real dangers to this possible recovery. On a personal front I am noticing a real change in the outlook of my commercial customers, and the retail customers are not so scared to spend. This could all stop at any time, but for now there is a bit of a spark.

All of the Town car and G/M owners are in their 70's now so that market is about dead literally. The MK.... is our attempt to modernize. Most of the people now buying high end cars value handling a lot more than the owners of the t/c did.

Yes, it's a bean or a color of horse.

Why holy crap? we have not seen all that many head gasket failures here, more egr and oil cooler failures.

I got wheel and tires, brake rotors and an e-brake control for my 1986 ranger. Oh and a big jump in my future taxes for the deficit added by this great program

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I was just glad to see that our friends to the north have the same great split we do down here. Lol. Looks to me as an outsider that the western part of Canada like BC is close to our politics here is WA State. Kind of live and let live, with an eye to the environment...well sort of in BC. As you travel to the east it looks to get more conservative (looking to reach a pinnacle in a little place called Slave Lake). The Bloc seems outlandish from my point of view and from every other Canadian I have spoken with. I have yet to talk with anyone from NL, NB, of those areas so I have even less of an idea what they think out there. Thanks Jim you have expanded by world view of Canadians.

We are charging crankshaft rr time. That is a reseal minus head gaskets.

In the 11 years I have worked in the field I have never got a single paid sick day!

I have to agree with Jim on this one. I may not like some of the laws of the land, and I may not agree with them but we are a society built on following laws. We have collectively decided through our regulators that clean air trumps increase fuel economy and durability. The externalities of the use of fossil fuels must be minimized by the use of emissions devices. The use of EGR does not increase the formation of particulate emissions if it is operating properly. This is false. The release of CO2 is directly related to fuel consumption not EGR flow. The attitude of some people about this is why we should mandate annual inspection and emission test around both of our countries and any other that share a common goal of reducing the tragedy of the commons.