Brad Clayton

Serviced a 6.4 yesterday with an aftermarket fleet contract, they wouldn't authorize the claim until the hours were documented along side the mileage.

Oops, I just remembered you said T-S-B. But I don't remember seeing this in the fine print before: So I say go for it and flag it.

Indeed you can

Yeah ESP blows. So to answer your question, Aaron, yeah it still pays a whopping 18 minutes for the basic prior approval.

It pays just a touch more And there is

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Evidently it has been quite some time since I got prior approval for an engine assembly. I seriously don't remember jumping through so many hoops. Friday a '14 Mustang with 5000 miles came in with a crank no start and customer said engine was noisy when it was running. A quick run down and I found the left exhaust cam locked up (3.7L). I pulled the engine Saturday afternoon, and filled out a hotline report requesting an assembly line unit due to it being a current model year. I came in this morning and I was advised that I could long block it. I promptly removed the left head to ensure the piston to valve contact was as bad as I made out on the hotline report when viewed with our boroscope. Next its on to the cost cap, bam! no problem. Then its on to prior approval and the brakes on my paper train were applied with extreme pressure. The form wanted mandatory pictures. I had to go back to the engine and remove the pan and a main bearing cap. Then I had to cut the oil filter open and splay out the element for pics. This was all new for me and just loads of fun. They must have liked my photos cause I got my prior approval code within the hour and then it was off to my stellar parts department for more hoops to jump through (think of the whole thing as an episode of "American Ninja Warrior"). Ah such is the life of a dealer tech.

No problem, I was in the chat room but I got like 10 windows open at the moment and forgot all about it. When I came back to it you had stopped by and I got the boot for inactivity.

Here you go.tsb13-10-07.pdf

Sounds like you need to find another dealer. We would have fixed your truck with a harness and or solenoid as needed if it was under warranty.

http://www.torkteknology.com/

Replaced engine harness on Monday and so far so good 5 days later.

Tomorrow will be radiator day. A 64 and a 67. Then an engine harness in a 60. After work I have to get a junk yard 73 running. Seems I will have all the Powerstrokes covered.

This one came back today. Doing the same thing. I showed the driver how to get it running as he needed the truck and he is going to bring it back Monday. Hopefully I can get it to act up long enough to pin it down this time. Really not sure which way to go with this thing.

Cool, thanks a bunch Mike. The shop is trying to lure a customer away from a local Indy shop that kills us on diesel work. So we are trying to get our quote as low as possible and still keep the doors open.

Seems like it would be easier to just buy the correct fuel cap for them things.

Our parts shows a part number for 1 gasket, 10 bolts, 1 standpipe and 4 stepped dowels for 200 bucks. I don't need all that crap because the truck will be studded, I just need a head gasket.

Does anyone know of a part number for 20mm dowel head gasket only, no bolts or stuff?

It's funny you mention this, I was going to put something similar up. However the latest trend around here is to get caught up on all your texting whilst sitting at red lights. Greenville NC has more than its fair share of red lights and the turn arrows are the ones that you must almost hitch your bumper to the car's bumper in front of you in order to get a decent amount of cars through the intersection before the light turns red again and you miss a birthday while sitting at it. These are the ones that idiots are looking in there lap while the light turned green 4 seconds ago, which is at least 3 missed cars making the light. What happens if you lay on the horn? There is a good chance you may get shot. PEOPLE ARE AWESOME!!!!!

Oh I really put it to em when they gots Canadian plates!

I loc-tite em, safety wire em, put a little tack with the mig on em, and pray I never have to take it apart again.

Not sure if boost is in there but I think the map reading is and boost can be calculated by subtracting baro from map.

One thing I have realized through all of this is that I am now being forced to make changes...for the better. Before when things were comfortable and money was budgeted with little effort, we were just going through the motions. Now I am having to re-examine everything and considering some big changes in my career. It's all for the better in the long term, I feel. And I am grateful that I haven't had to watch my grandchild grow up on Facebook and Skype.

I do hate working out of someone else's toolbox.

I couldn't wait til 2010 when I heard that was the last of the 6.0 in the Ebox.