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wow that sucks. what was the customers reaction? fire is a nasty thing and even it it isnt burned the water or smoke damage causes just as much damage. I havent seen too many shop fires expect for a guy that decide to do a wiring repair with a mini torch next to an open fuel tank. of course it ignited and burned the tank, lines, etc. he got it put out quick. I have seen several vehicles dropped from the hoists. that makes one hell of a noise when standing in the room next to where its dropped. glad to hear no one was hurt and you still have most of your shop there. how is business flowing?

I have problems with these trucks as well. we have a fleet of 350s from the air force base that are used as tugs. they are limited to 35mpg(found that out the hard way pulling into traffic!) they also use a grade of bio or whatever is on base so that doesnt help. they never get enough heat or boost to clean themselves out. We has one that was so extreme that it burned a whole in one of the pistons. I dont think these will ever be fixed with this type of use.

on the note of the 7.3 warrenty not paying its to be expected. Ford pretty much knows all the short cuts and has knocked down the time. it will happen to the 6.0 as time goes by as well. we can get over 6hours for an injector now but Im not sure for how much longer. its about like the 30+hr headgasket jobs too. Even being legit and all the times will fall sooner or later. On the flip side they are offset by the next generation of vehicles too. you just have to figure out how to make money on them.

So I knew these things where huge but damn you gotta have one out to really see how monsterous it is. Its almost a 2 man operation lifting it out. It took me a little over an hour to get it out for my first time. its kinda a pain but not all that bad. everything is bolted to that stupid thing it seems. you have to unbolt and flop all the coolers out of the way. anyway just thought I would share my impression of the thing. everyone that walks by is impressed with it and asks what its out of.

I havent heard that theroy but I do know thats about a normal mpg average for these from the customers I have talked too.

I have seen the flashing int he front cover cause problems as well. our car service department had one. I just got one in with the side take on the radiator leaking too.

That about discribes it. All those people are not moving to arizona and screwing up my wonderful state /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif

I have seen people jump ship due to the 6.4. They want nothing to do with it. I think jims theory is spot on, those old timers that know how to work on those horrible things called carberators have trouble keeping up with the latest and greatest technology on the road

also there is a TSB out there stating if the IPR screen is damaged to replace the pump. I beleive its on 05 model year and within a certian build date. just fyi the number excapes me at this time. Ill look for it

Move to california, I hear they have some nice benifits out there /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif

becare with those charts for the 6.0 they have been getting updated often and if you dont catch it you will be out of date. Your best bet is to go right into PTS and print them from there.

Nope I diaged it and got it the hell out. It would not start and had a CMP fault. ended up needing a pcm and the part has to come from the manufacture and Im sure its a few days out. I slapped in my test pcm and drove it outside! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbup.gif

wow larry Im suprised the dealer cleaned that. Most times they have a company capable of handling biohazzard clean that up. seems ironic since I posted this thread the first truck I get is a 550 with a sanitation rig on the back of it. It wont start and is about half full of poop. Its sticking up my bay and shop. glad we have the doors open today /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crybaby2.gif

When i worked in the car shop i came across stuff like that all the time. The best was a compliant of a weird noise from under the seat. turns out he dildo getting turned on and off under the seat when driving. I also had a t-bird that was piled up to the windows with trash and a bucket of half eaten chicken wings baking with the windows up in 115 degree Arizona summer.

I hate mine trucks. Sad thing is this thing only has like 10k miles on it and a 2006. The mud is like concrete!

yeah Jim I have worked at places like that. I feel lucky to be in a nice shop. We pull tons of mud and junk off our trucks too. We are always working contruction rigs. the shop rate is $95 an hour

Well I double checked everything again and made sure the network was ok. I got a good cluster in it and took care of some of the problem but not all. I ended up swaping another processor in it with the good cluster and it fixed it. seems the welding on the frame took out the scp newtwork within the pcm and cluster. now i just need to wait for god nows how long to get a pcm from the vender. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banghead.gif

It makes my IDS go dumb. I mean it messes it up to the point I have to reboot to even get it to work on another truck. It will not even get to the point of communicating with anything. yes Jim thats why I never sold anything yet. I have enough trucks tore apart I have parts laying around. I was able to swap everything over real quick one at a time. At least I know thats not a problem so it has to be wiring somewhere. It has an digital odo. It does display mileage however the tach is inop, both temp gauges trans and engine inop, check engine light is one, air bag light is on, and no something is beeping uncontrollably. I will try the selftest in the morning for the ICM then I guess its time to start tracing wires! and if that doesnt work then /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/flamethrower.gif it

swap a cluster from another truck and no luck. i got side tracked on a head gasket job the past couple days. So far I have swapped a pcm,ficm,and cluster from a like vehicle and no luck.

We have pretty much full reign on what we can do expect for the obvious smut sites. makes life and down time a little easier. We can access email tho which is irritating

I built one. Its very easy but does take some time to make it clean and user friendly. I always have people asking to borrow it which I dont mind unless it becomes excessive which it has /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banghead.gifanyway I can snap some pictures of it tomorrow for you if you like.

yeah I have never understood what the purpose of the screen was when almost everything can pass through it.

Oh the drama! I can say I will enjoy a break from working on vans but they do bring money through the door. seems like they bring lots of cash to ford too

an external leak? is it coming from a cracked weld like the 6.0 did?

I have had several do that to me. I have also have the top two bolts break completely off and the top of the injector came out with the oil rail. I have had to go fishing for the broke pieces of bolts too which is not fun. make sure you get it all since if not it will go straight through the gerotor pump and destroy it along with the front cover