Brad Clayton

Keep your head up my friend, it will all be but a bad dream in no time.

More of a bit of randomness than an observation.....I learned to count to ten in Japanese today.

I got no input on that, but I do want to say welcome aboard my friend!!!!

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No codes at all, and it is at it's latest level. All temp sensors are in check and I have actually monitored the raw voltages and not just the computed temps. This thing is on the back burner for the moment, but I will update when I get back to it.

So far it just looks like 1 upfitter switch is being used for strobe lights. My donor AP didn't make any difference. More testing with results to follow....

I came across a donor truck that I can swap the pedal out to see what happens.

I put an alternator on one a while back for a similar concern, she would just stop charging.

Take a look at these screen shots and see if you guys have seen anything like this before. Truck has no codes but after driving it pretty hard then it just won't go no matter how much throttle you give it. Is it a bad accel pedal? Bad PCM? Bad tech? I'm not sure at this point.

Keeping an eye on this over on the boards:

Karim Miller

Classic Ford Lincoln of Columb

Columbia, SC

(803) 779-5977 Theres a sign in front of the dodge dealership across the street from this ford dealer. It has been there for no less than six months. (It reads) Wanted Techs of all skill levels. I asked the service manager why the sign was there? (by the way the dealer is one of the longest standing dealers in my area) His responce was all his techs quit because they could not make a living on doing nothing but recalls. Now being sceptical I investigated deeper. talking with one of the former techs found it to be true.

 

A few yrs. ago ford posed the uestion? WHY CAN"T WE GET MORE TECHS IN THIS BUSSINESS. Well look around FORD!!! I spend more time than ever now working on recalls than on customer pay jobs.I have gone from making 6 figure income to making almost half what it was 5 yrs ago! wake up and smell what your shoveling. Just on the door latch recall alone. Cut over an hour off the time. now lets say there is 1 million techs in the united states. and each one just lost an hour off each recall. thats i million hrs. per day taht ford is saving. now all the techs are complaining. So You come up with a incentive program to give 100 techs a $150.00 gift card a week out of 1 million techs. Thats $10,000 a week you give to 100 techs, but millions a week you save on recalls that you sent out with the labor times you came up with in the first place. We as master techs have to find a way to beat the times you come up with to make a living in the first place. and when we do, you come along with a video to constitute cutting time. this is a reminder of the EDSR days. paying techs $50.00 for showing you a faster way so you can cut our own throtes. How about this for a thought. You give all the techs in all the dealerships ford benefits, family insurance, paid vacations, UWA pay scale, and no weekends worked. try that on for size and ill work on anything you want me to. because at the level the dealers are giving us we can no longer afford to fix cars and jump through your HOOPS to DO OUR JOBS.

There is a dark cloud forming.

It sure doesn't help that Ford has lost their everflippin' mind,,,,,,anybody seen the buzz on the message boards about all the new labor cuts and labor justification video?

Hang on.....  OK ready.

What the book wants and what the book gets don't always coincide.

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I like where this is going.....

"D"

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6.0L_Studded_Engine.pdf

I got the tri-fecta this week, 3.7L tore down to the bare block getting a short block ('16 Explorer), 6F35 tore down to the bare case getting an input shaft and torque converter ('14 Escape), and an 8.8 tore down to the bare housing getting a ring and pinion and all new bearings ('04 Mustang).

  time for a raise!!!!

Looks like the V-6's are taking a beating lately.....I gotta '16 Explorer 3.7L with a windowed block, more like a breeze way, the 4th rod got both sides.

This fellow was recommended to me from a shop I consult with on occasion. 2009 F-350 that a dealership tech replaced the HPFP on at his house on the side. The gentleman bought the pump at his dealership. The truck ran one time and has never run since........no fuel coming out of the pump. The owner spoke with the dealership and they said if he had the receipt then it would be under warranty to replace the pump again (the dealer diagnosed it as a failed new pump).

So now the owner wants to tow it to my dealer and have me do the pump. But here is the thing.......I am wondering if the pump gear was not tightened or has come loose (it could happen since you have to swap it over, right?). I really hate to get involved with something like that and then have to deal with Ford when they say the pump is ok.

I guess I could prep the owner that if I remove the cover and find the pump bolt loose then it's on him.

Working down here in the South affords a lot of luxury in the automotive repair end of things. Some jobs that I would have never tackled in Vermont are relatively easy down here. Case in point, turbo removal on a 6.4. Now I have done this in the past with the cab on and it was not a cake walk by any means. I had to remove these turbos again (a comeback) as the high pressure drain tube leaked after I originally replaced the turbos. I was looking for the quickest way to get this job done.
 
I did a partial cab lift that only requires the bare minimum to lift the front of the cab about 4 inches. I removed the complete air box and this allowed room to stuff the air inlet over out of the way without removing the ccv hose.
 



 
I removed the upper radiator hose from the radiator. I always orient the upper hose clip with the opening facing up so it can be removed without interfering with the upper shroud.
 

 
I then removed the degas bottle.
 


Next, is the turbo crossover tube.





Both upper charge air cooler hoses are disconnected and the transmission cooler line clip is disengaged from the frame.



The body is lifted in the front (only 4 bolts removed (6 if crew cab)) and the return power steering hose is monitored so it doesn't get stretched.





Some views.







The offending unit.



The only CAC hoses I torque are 6.4's.....mandatory in my opinion.



I always replace the radiator hose o-rings and degas bottle hose o-ring.



This allows this operation to work more effectively.



And that was it, I was able to repair the leak and shipped this puppy out before lunch.

Make sure the owner brings all the work history from the other shops.

Got an engine on the way for this jewel.