Brad Clayton

Quote: Brad... once you experience ANY truck with a V-Mac, you will begin to wish you could have held on to that fire truck a wee bit better... Been patiently waiting on a good one about the old avitar.

DO make sure to add the block off tools for the high pressure oil system for Gen I trucks. Those usually got lost about 10 years ago in most dealers, but are a must if an oldy comes in with a high pressure leak.

I'm really having a hard time seeing why the webmaster would delete that post. Was there any responses to it? I checked it last night and there weren't any yet. I have seen threads that were completely out of control that stay on there forever (Chuck Norris comes to mind). But this is a serious question that was thoughtfuly composed and posted in the efforts that maybe we could get a coffee table book, at least that's the way I read it. Fuck me, maybe you have to dumb it waaaayyyyyy down to be on the boards over there.

Whats a VMAC? Any pics of the unit your talking about?

My initial thoughts on the new 6.7L Powerstroke engine: -Lots of plastic on this motor, kind of like a modular motor. -Y-block design, like the old “FE” engines and the modular motors. -Is the oil filter a FL-1995? Looks like it may be a little smaller. -Belt tensioner appears to be carry over from the 6.4L. -Looks like dual belt driven water pumps. -Does not appear to be any room for a dual alternator package. -Likewise the aftermarket belt driven PTO’s may not work in this package. -Will “quick” connect coolant hoses make it on to this motor? It looks like maybe so. I am not a fan of them. -Oil fill on left side of motor, I like that personally. -The oil dipstick goes over the entire motor and enters into the bell housing. Appears like it may be a tad longer than any other dipstick we have seen, as far as checking oil goes. -The main water pump appears to be under the power steering pump. Thus the old location appears to be a dummy pulley for belt routing only. -12 bolt bell housing, more and more as time goes on. -From the pictures I can see, the airflow into the combustion chambers looks “labored”. Lots of tight bends and obstacles to get to it’s intended destination. -I’m praying nothing goes wrong under the valve covers. Each side as it’s own set of components that are in “the way” as far as R&R goes. -Trans cooler lines still have that ridiculous stud off the right side of the block that they are pinned to. -Cylinders are numbered like a Ford, modular motor that is. -Lots of fuel plumbing. I can’t make heads or tails out of how it works. But I do see each injector has it’s own return line. -18 head bolts per side. 8 more than what we’ve been dealing with. I just hope the extra clamping force will offset the use of aluminum heads. -Engine oil cooler appears to be similar to what the 6.4L/6.0L used and is mounted on the driver’s side like 7.3L. -Looking at the dyno pictures, I think I’m looking at a ridiculous sized intercooler on the driver’s side of the motor. I hope I’m wrong on that, doesn’t look like much room for a steering shaft and other needed stuff to make a truck a truck. -Didn’t get a good look at any water take off points for DEF tank heating provisions.

I would be careful about commiting to any quote without a tear down to see what it's actually going to need. With that many miles and the hood still shut all you can do is ballpark any kinda figures. I would give him 3 options: tear down and ispection, then whatever it needs, drop in motor, or head to the sales department out front. You could open this thing up and then find a cylinder wall gouged right deep, a rod shortened up, cracked heads, a cylinder head so warped you could put a lunch box between the straight edge and the deck surface , a lifter worn into the cam, missing piston cooling jet, and on and on.

Just buy the truck then you won't have to fix it.

Worth giving a look. If you click on the jug of fluid you can access a 30 min. webinar. This gives a pretty good indication of what to expect in the very near future. Biggest thing that got my attention is diesel exhaust fluid is over half water. It's temp window is somewhat not extreme eviroment friendly. Basically it freezes at 12 degrees F. That means it will have to be heated by engine coolant, meaning more friggin' lines off the engine and everything that goes with that (computer controls, nox sensors for derate, ect.) Cummins Filtration

I went to Dunkin Donuts yesterday, because America runs on DD, and ordered three donuts. Conversation goes like this: "Good morning" "Morning, I would like three donuts, please" "Three dozen donuts"? I chuckle lightly and reply,"no, three donuts please" again he says "three dozen donuts"? Now I'm getting a little put off, "no, THREE donuts, please" "Ok sir, which ones would you like"? I know I am dealing with a complete fucking idiot now, so I carefully and in plain English, call out each donut. This guy reaches for the wrong one everytime and I gotta correct him all 3 friggin' times! So last but not least, I ask for an orange juice. I can't see the labels behind the counter. I ask what my options are <oh, boy>. He says "no pulp, calcium, low pulp". "I'll have a NO pulp please" What's he bring over? The one with friggin' pulp in it!!!! Anybody ever been in a DD, in a long line, and listened to the crazy assed custom order of coffees being called out? I feel for them as they deal with this fellow. I mean all I wanted was three simple donuts. I put the blame on the manager, truly, if the manager had a clue, then this fellow behind the counter would be out back picking up ciggarette butts in the parking lot.

Is that the elusive Nessy in the water there?

On the bright side, at least he's not complaining about fuel mileage.

Wow, I didn't even realize I used the word "pure" instead of "peer". Funny how the mind of a simpleton works.

What is this topic you ask? It's kinda like teen pure pressure in high school situations. You wouldn't think it could happen with grown men in a work enviroment where people are trying to turn out a service and provide for there familys. But it does and it can be an ackward situation for young techs. They can fall victims to older techs who tend to intimidate and or bully. This might sound crazy but I have been thru it myself and saw it firsthand again just the other day. Can't remember the exact situation. An older "tech" we'll call him tech A, comes over to nose around in tech B's business. Keep in mind he wasn't over to chit chat about sports or things such as that, he came over purely to see if tech B was making more money than him or doing something that might go against the grain. Side note: I am the one that bucks all the trends in the shop. You want to see some strange stuff going on, come over to my bay. Now tech B is distracted and completely stops working and doesn't want to continue until tech A leaves. He listenes to what tech A has to say which is completely wrong. His unwarranted advise goes against the shop manual and is about as backyard fuckin' shortcut shit as I have ever heard. The problem here is alot of young people grew up learning to respect their elders. Unfortunately this situation requires the tech to tell the old fart to take a fuckin' hike. And not wanting to do this he is now left with this horrible advise in front on him. For a young impressionable mind this can be very bad for this and future situations. It can lead to a negative trend toward future repairs and a whole different atitude when around tech A. Luckily I am not one of the tech A's. I saw what was going on and put my presence in the situation and tech A wandered off. I then instructed tech B to disregard his advise. So advise given, "Thank you for your input tech A, but this is my first time doing this job and I am going to go by the book on this one". Believe it or not I still get badgered by these types. "what are you doing and why are you doing it that way". Of course I am older and don't care about most poeples delicate feelings. So I say "because I want the job done right, now get the fuck outa my face, BIOTCH".

Well this one is fixed, sorry for the late reply. Quote: Don't you have something going on with cyls 4 and 7, though? Quite right on that one Bruce, it turned out to be a tank delamination! I was having a difficult time with this one, seeing how another dealer had just put 4 injectors in for the same problem. Unfortunately they didn't get to the root cause. SYMPTOM SYSTEM COMPONENT CAUSE This idea may not have made to their dealer yet. I did some lookin' around on here and luckily the truck had a dump body on it. So after removing the right side injectors and replacing a bad cup in the number 1 hole, I removed the left side injectors. They were rusted wicked bad between the o'rings for the fuel inlet. After removing the fuel sender it was quite obvious what the prob was. I replaced the tank and sender and HCFM, finished up with the injectors and a number 4 cup and all is well. Truck was an '07 with less that 35k on it.

Quote: Then I gotta take a whiz in the fuel tank, and she'll be good to roll again. Sounds like a scene right out that movie "Red Dawn", I guess that wasn't too far fetched now.

Well here's a twist. It just ask me to register before I could vote. Complete with e-mail and password and the whole nine.

6.4 with slight coolant consumption. This: Turned out to be this:

Quote: Rislone Head Gasket Fix Compatible with green Anti-Freeze only There, that's better!

Quote: Rislone Head Gasket Fix Compatible with Anti-Freeze Pretty good slogan they have there, seeings how you have to pour in the radiator.

I have no Idea how that applies here, just saw the commercial on TV.

"That's thinkin with your dipstick Jimmy!"

101 and counting

That piece I spoke of earlier is actually steel, for some reason I had aluminum on the brain this a.m.

I have. You see that beefy piece of aluminum (al-oo-min-y-um) for any Brits out there, that holds the water transfer tube to the intake? Yea well it don't hold so good. I did head studs on an Excursion with one of these on it and I had to redesign that portion so the tube would stay in, the thing flopped around all over the place before.

Here ya go buddy, straight from the horse's mouth: Quote: Brad, SSM 20652 is no longer an active message. The SSM content will be added to the Workshop Manual soon. Power derate can occur if the ECT exceeds 238F, EOT exceeds 258F, FRT exceeds 194F, or if EGRTa exceeds 1310F. I was talkin' to the hotline just a minute ago, and ran it buy them.