Brad Clayton

Glad to hear it went smoothly. The wife went thru the same thing years ago. The doctors compared it to a bag of marbles that could not hold any more marbles. Seems to be more common after a hysterectomy. You didn't have uterus problems did you?

They should have pulled a motor off the assembly line and sent it no questions asked. All current model years got brand new motors in the past, this should be no exception. I would be ripshit if I got my $60k truck back with a dealer assembled engine with parts that were machined at a local shop. If it was 10 years later I wouldn't mind, but a brand new truck....I don't think so.

I had a hell of a time trying to download those photos, so I just put them in a post. Hope you don't mind.

Quote: tugging on harness still renders me with no results I would be wary of getting to physical with 6.0l engine harnesses. They are pretty fragile to begin with and you may end up creating more problems than it originally came in with. As these things get more complicated with more sensors and more wiring, the wiring harnesses get larger and heavier. So what do they do? They make the wire smaller. Instead of 16 and 18 gauge wires in the past now we have 20 and 22 gauge wires. Take this and put it into an extremely harsh and vibration induced enviroment and it's a disaster waiting to happen. I have lost count of all the little broken wires we have seen going here and there on these engines. We get lucky and find them and lots of times it just gets a harness. Sometimes it's cheaper on the labor, ya know? I cringe everytime I see someone with the intake off and the wiring harness pulled tight over the fan stator.

It's over there<<<<<<<< in the coffee table book section.

"Sir, I know your vehicle is broken, I know we have a shop full of capable techs, millions of dollars in tools, the most high tech diagnostic software available, but we can't fix your car today. Why? because................our internet is down." That's ususally what runs through my mind with all this high tech crap.

There is a very real danger of evap smoke testing machines becoming bombs. Recently, a tech hooked up the Rotunda smoke machine to a vehicles evap line and for whatever reason was called away. It was sometime before he returned to the vehicle and the whole time the tester line was hooked to the vehicles evap line. The tech continued the test and as soon as the button was pressed the machine blew up. The tech wasn't hurt but the rear of the machine and internals were damaged beyond repair. This is along the same lines as why lift motors are mounted chest high or on new Rotary lifts all the way at the top of the lift. Electric motors producing sparks and flamable vapors are a bad combination. I really can't remember what my policy was in the past, but now the tester hose is never conected to the vehicle other than if a test is actually being run.

You would have made the best english teacher in junior high, ever. I would never have fallen asleep in class!

Quote: Now Ford wants to know if the valve seats are cracked ..........uhhhhhh trouble is a brewin'

There is a video on FMC of a guy doing this.

I was refering to the fact that they got an F-150 pulling and hopefully stopping a tri-axle trailer with 2 cars on it. Not a Super-Duty with a V-8, an F-150 with a V-6. Yikes!

.......and you don't have to eat summer sausage.

All electricity has to get back to the source. In this case the battery is not the source, the ignition coil secondary windings are the source...so the elctrical flow has to make its way back the coil. Same as alternator rectification. If you look at the diode schematic of any alternator, it is very confusing to see how full voltage could be rectified. But you have to remember that the electrical source of an alternator is not the battery but the alternator itself thus looking at the diodes with this in mind clears all confusion. Either that or it makes it as clear as mud.

Just got off work from the ski resort, so Christmas is getting ready to swing into action.

I had to break out the ol Google Earth tab, 'cause I got no idea where you guys are at! Now I am a little more informed.

Quote: After our drivability tech tuned up this truck, he noticed a misfire on #6. I gotta ask how it ran before it was "tuned up" He had just installed plugs and coil boots and did a BG flush on the induction system. Truck has a 5.4L, and the mileage is about 130,000 miles. Misfire is constant on #6, dropping about 15RPM during a power balance test. Noid light tests on the coil and injector produce a nice flash. Plugs, injectors and coils were swapped one at a time between #5 and #6 with no change. Compression tests showed about 125-130 across the entire right bank. Usually, a healthy gasser will be above 150 psi and most of the time right at 180 psi. Running compression was about 110 on #6 and #5. Cylinder leakdown was just above 0. How much crud and dirt is on top of this motor? Hoping you meant left side on the compression testing. The running test seems high and the manual compression seems low. But that's neither here nor there. I would have to assume this engine ran fine before the service work. I had a very similar problem back in the summer and it turned out to have a bent exhaust valve. It was only a little bent. This was pinned down by applying shop air into the cylinder with the follower fingers removed.

Quote: Hope I'm on my ass is in high gear for the day Here is you and the devil on your shoulder. Only way to get it done.

Pretty neat series of videos that end with the one that Don (exmod) put over in the gas section. One Tough Little Engine

If I took 17 days off, they would have to retrain me when I got back to work.

Build a birdhouse.

Man, that first shop is awesome. Wish I worked in it. We're one step above a dirt floor.

Direct result of improper battery charging:

You gotta quit fooling around with those dead batteries. If they wont charge make the customer pony up for some new ones. If you charge the batteries and or jump them off and they wont even cycle the glow plugs, then everything else is gonna be a waste of time. Get some fresh batteries in this thing before going any further.

Dear Lord in Heaven.......

Quote: due to the cold weather here I was pulled off that truck and asigned other work Shoveling snow eh?