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Brad Clayton

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  1. The air filtration on the 6.7 is the worst I have ever seen since I have been with Ford over the past 25 years. I like to think that these engines have 2 main air filters (the actual air filter and then the charge air cooler) and 2 secondary air filters (the black foam thing and the mass air flow sensor) :D
     
    Get the air filter a little wet and don't check if for a few miles.......

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    Drive in some dusty conditions and hopefully all you need is a turbo.....

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  2. My mom recently bought and moved into a house a couple of miles down the road from us. I have been over fixin this and that and she wanted some ceiling fans installed. I removed the light fixture from one of the bedrooms to put a fan up and check out the amount of wiring that was stuffed into the box.

     

     

     

    I relocated all that mess up into the attic in its own junction box.

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  3. Your MAP sensor is not reading any pressure in the intake manifold, you should be getting some sort of code out of the PCM to indicate this. I would try to tackle one issue at a time here and put a low pressure gage in-line with the MAP signal hose, command the RPM to 1200, close the EGR valve, and ramp the VGT to 100% or as high as it will go. Then compare the reading on the gage with the MGP pid and see if they match. If they both show a measureable amount of boost but the MAP sensor still reads atmospheric pressure then................

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  4. We are a small shop and don't do a whole lot of diesel work. The way I approached the powers that be went like this: When I get a diesel job (no start, runs rough, ect.) then I pull the line tech off whatever job he is doing, he clocks in on a "shop punch" to document his training time, we diag the truck together, he then clocks off the shop punch and goes back to his flat rate work. When the parts come in for the truck he clocks the shop punch again and installs the parts under my supervision. At the end of the week he gets paid for all the shop punches added up and at his normal flat rate wage.

     

    It's a win win for everybody involved in my eye. However the shop I work at has no long term vision and it is a must to be able to see 2 or 5 years down the road and not just 15 minutes ahead. They opted not to follow this and then the guy who wanted to learn diesel and take my place, quit and went to another dealer.

  5. I see a lot of those harnesses crapped out especially when an injector has been disconnected at one time or another. The tool is a life saver however it can break the lock mechanism on the connector......the best way to disconnect is to use the tool in conjunction with a pick to push down on the lock in the center of the connector.

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