Brad Clayton

That's a great sense of humor and you cant go wrong with that eh? The needles work great for the clot. My wife developed a blood clot in her leg after a rough knee surgery. I had to give her shots in her stomach for the duration and she was good to go. My day was great, thank you for asking. Our local hospital validates parking tickets. Seriously, we wish you well and yes, I give Yaweh all the credit!!!!!

Alrighty, gonna put this one in the fixed column. Revisited the truck today and it ran incredibly strong given it's age and miles. I reinstalled the tuner and got a moderate 28 pounds out of the hair dryer and just a wee bit of tire smoke whilst leaving the red lights. I figured out why it stalled on me also.....the truck realized I wasn't going to drive it and it shut itself down to conserve fuel. Just kiddin' I have no idea and chalkin' it up as a fluke at the moment.

Exactly!

So I have been dreading this job from the onset. I can only dedicate about an hour or two after work to this thing. That in itself makes things worse than they are just like being pulled off a big job to do an oil change. I started the tear down on Tuesday and the cold cac tube looks like something retrieved from the Titanic ship wreck. Tried to get all the fuel lines off the bowl and the drivers supply tube to the head was spinning the whole line with the nut, friggs sake. Had to remove the line at the head and snake it out with the housing. I got down to the pump cover and needed to remove the right uppipe for an EGR delete and called it a night. Wednesday night or was it Thursday? dunno it's all a blur now and its time to cut every exhaust bolt off *groans*. Pulled pump and cleaned everything and put new pump in and new pump cover and new right uppipe. Went home beat up. Saturday and I am at the shop at 8 in the am. Got the truck all back together and the boss (who is cleaning off the tailgate which was used as a makeshift bench) shows me a bag of orings and a plug. Those are just spare parts bud. The key is turned and she just spins. Uh, it should start since nothing needed priming. I grab the IDS and find the PCM is blanked out (I removed the SCT tune trying to eliminate it as a driveabilty concern). Whilst rebooting the modules, the clean up guy asks what the fluid on the floor underneath the truck is. I mention its probably antifreeze from some of the hoses I had off and he says it looks like oil. I look under and holy hell there is a quart of oil on the floor. I immediately flashback to the boss holding the baggy of "spare" parts. I forgot to install the plug in the back of the new cover. The only way to access that plug is from underneath. The truck is in a flat bay. We have to get his 4 wheeler and maneuver the truck outside and back into the next bay over which has a 12k lift. I get the truck in the air and it is raining down motor oil off of every part of the transmission. Keep in mind I am about to have to bear hug this thing to get the shield off of the rear of the pump cover. Oh fuck me! So I get the plug in and everything buttoned up and about 4 cans of brake clean sprayed on the underside and she starts right up. I maneuver the truck outside and let it run while I am on to my next project in the shop. About 40 minutes go by and the truck shuts off as if the key were removed. I go out and start it back up and it stalls. I leave it be and finish up the other truck I am working on. By now the engine has been off for an hour and I go out with the IDS to see what the hell is wrong now. I notice that the VGT never learned and decide to take care of that first. I warm the engine to 170 degrees and notice that the power is not consistent no matter how steady I hold the throttle. I was attempting to keep it at 2500 or so. I get it to temp and it still wont relearn, oh yeah the mil is on due to the lack of an EGR valve. I clear the codes and the friggin mil is back on within 5 seconds. I go looking for the valve I took out which required rummaging through about 5 trash cans. I get it plugged into the harness and clear the mil and finally get a learn conformation. I'm pooped and call it a day. Tomorrow, I will look at ICP/IPR and take it for a rip with cell phone in hand and see what happens.

You can just turn them bearings around the other way and get some more out of em!

*The fuel tank issue Ford definitely knows about. I don't think customers have complained to Ford about it enough so that a change will be made. The voice of the customer and their spending habits will indeed make them change. *That is a good one. We are all expected to know how these things operate and thus how to repair them in a proper and timely manner. How do you go about that? It doesn't come naturally at least not for me. So that requires homework, reading on my own time, tinkering with trucks that aren't broken to see how they respond to real world failures, ect. A lot of guys will let their ego get in the way of trying to repair trucks. There is so much info available to customers now compared to pre internet days that its not hard to find an educated customer that could be one step ahead of a lazy tech who thinks he knows it all but in fact is just muddling through it all with "wag and swag". These are the same guys that are going to work just to pull a paycheck and have no interest in it as a career. They sleep just fine at night and the comebacks are never their fault. There again I blame management for enabling these types of techs. Well we will split the fault 50/50 on that one. *Yes, definitely some blame to be put there. STEP AWAY FROM THE HOOD AND PUT THE WRENCH ON THE GROUND! I though things were ruff in Vermont, but I have never seen 6.0 liter engines in such disarray and a sad state of affair as here in NC. I regrettably have grown accustomed to it now and callosed over.

I cant see a V-10 option being a good thing in something like this.

I own that set, it works quite well. I have been meaning to do a tool review on it but we don't have any work to do let alone any odd ball electrical problems.

The 'ol burn your fingers and blind your eyes test....an oldie but a goldie for sure.

Very good point!

Yikes! Well you boys talked me up one. 06 F-250 6.0L making 22 psi in the cooling system at less than part throttle. Needs the trifecta, and it's dropping all 4 cylinders on the right bank. Starting with 7, then 1, then 3 and well.

Such as.........tangless bearings?

That is saweeeeet.

Meanwhile I'm standin' 'round with my thumb up my......with 5 empty bays. Oh the disparity.

Last diesel I had that wouldn't run off go-go juice only had 185PSI compression across all 8.

I always take a real close look at the injector area between the orings. It should be nice and shiny, if it's brown and discolored, then it's time to drop the fuel tank. If you ignore it, the vehicle will be back shot gun wedding style.

I would be curious to know what that EOT pid is reading. Does this thing have a block heater? Plug it in an let it warm to see if it starts any easier. I do believe that's the highest fuel pressure reading I've heard of yet. I'm usually lucky to get 45 PSI around here. I hate to be the negative grim reaper type but spinning fast/smoking/very hard to start cold, sounds like a dusted engine with equally low compression across all 8 cylinders. If you can finally get it to "bust off" then I would do a crank case pressure test before anything else. I had one acting similar and this reading was at idle. It would peg the gage at WOT. A short block was needed to fix this one.

I have seen pressures up to 15 psi on my gage and trucks would run fine. From my experiences, a truck that could be on the bubble, needs to be driven with a pretty good load. Usually driving them empty will yield no results. We had a car trailer at the shop and I would load the shop truck on that and then tow it up a pretty good hill with the truck in question. Most owners usually fail to mention they had issues with their truck while towing a horse trailer and six horses, or 20,000lbs of hay on their Big-Tex gooseneck going through the Catskills. Almost all the time the pressure will reach it's highest point while tipping out as if lifting the pedal a smidge to prevent over taking a slower moving car in front.

E-boxes are a little stranger when diagnosing compared to trucks. You probably are running out of fuel at the injectors. Will this idle in park ok? If it starts loping and running oddly (fuel knock) after idling for a bit, you could have combustion gasses displacing the fuel in the head. Does this thing have a steel fuel tank? If so it could be experiencing a delam issue and clogging up the fuel system. What's the miles and hours? If they are astronomical, then I would get a quick reading on crankcase pressure before heading any further. All the above items are easy to check and thus eliminate as possible causes.

I used both mounting bolts, in the 3rd picture on the 1st page there is a decent shot of the chain going over the turbo. One thing you will notice right off, the turbo bolts will not fit through those chain links. I used a couple of those largish screw together link thingys on the chain for the bolts to go through. It bends them making them a one time use so don't spend too much on them if you get some at a hardware store.

This guy said he aint getting paid to pull the cab.

Our diesel guy over at our Chevy store has a Duramax caboff for fuel system repairs. I'm gonna meander over tomorrow and snag some pics.

That thing just looks like it could wheel stand all the way down the street.