DwayneGorniak

I worked in a dealership in Regina that did that fucking Robbery! It does nothing but create back stabbing , jealousy and animosity throughout the whole shop! Everyone is your fucking enemy and you damned well better watch your back! If your team leader doesn't like you as mine didn't like me because I was divorcing his cousin, they will stick you with all the bullshit warranty that you can't make any hours with. Then they will review your productivity and tell you that you are dragging the rest of the team down and you are on your way out the fucking door! Thankfully I quit and got my ass out to Alberta and started working in the real world! Fuck! All my bad dreams and nightmares are coming back to me just reading this fucking thread! Can you tell what I think of these fucking little cults?

Check this one out! Pretty darned impressive! http://blog.powerblocktv.com/3-4-second-...ished-business/

Mrbudge, I think Matt has already touched base on some of the issues and explained it. The politics of warranty have become unbearable for most folks I know who have left the dealership scenes. And we all know that he higher trained you become the less hours you make. You become that "Go To Guy" that never gets any financial appreciation for it. You go to the top only to make less and that leaves a bad tast in most folks mouths. I've been there! Thankfully my last dealership of employment made me see there is a slight glimpse of decency out there.

And Al Gore is a lyin SOB! I'd like to slap that prick! Man I'm sick of this friggin snow! Month 7 of this shit!

Check out the Cumstang! Pretty damned quick. I would still love to see one done with a 7.3L! http://www.cumminsforum.com/forum/cummin...ns-3-turbo.html

I'm rootin for ya Jim. Don't know what else to say. Hope to see ya outa there soon! I have a few customers on my route that have gone through treatments and have all licked this and I'm confident in all the new technology. My mom made it through this crap about three years ago as well. I'll keep watchin for your progress. Take care Man!

Looks like most of the shops I walk into these days! Brings back memories of places I've worked at in the past.

Sooooooo, you have to pay your government to keep your Inter-provincial Red Seal certification?

Fuck your Government is a bunch of fucking gougers! How in the fuck do you suckers keep voting them steeling mother fuckers back in? Fuck your governemt corrution is all over the news across this country. I never stop hearing about it anymore! There's something new everyday! Our provincial government ain't much better lately, but the last election gave them a totally different opposition and a message that Albertan's aren't happy!

Jim, that is where you are wrong. When I was there, us flat rate techs were to always punch our time tickets for our hoist inspections and we got paid 1 hour for the inspection and service. You are partially right. If there was not a 1 hour punch time on my time ticket at the end of the month, I did not get my paycheck untill I did my hoist inspection and service. Kenny used to always make sure we had our inspections on our time tickets. It may have been different for you because you were the Foreman and you were straight time. But us flat rate guys didn't get our paychecks untill we had that 1 hour punch time on our tickets and we had to write it on the ticket as well as fill out the inspection and maintenance form for the hoist. And I did get paid for that one hour. So did, Kyle and so did Adam!

And don't get me wrong! I agree with the fact that we need to take the initiative to make things better! But not very many places out there take your initiatives as an inviting idea. And there is a fine line between taking that initiative and sacrificing your job. If you whine too much they will do to you what happened to me and thousands of others in the past and present. If you are known as a trouble maker or whiner, they will starve the ever living sit out of your flat rate ass! Like I said, S.L Ford spoils their techs in a great way. All shops should be like that. But the reality is that they just aren't. So how do you change the mentality of the greedy money hungry leadership or management out there? You can preach to the person who's paycheck this affects the most, but no there is no one out there to preach to the pricks that pay everyone to work with this unsafe shit! And that is their mentality..........You get paid to deal with this shit, now shut up, do your fucking job and deal with it! Who is willing to become the door to door preacher to start the safety trend and preach to the Managers and owners? Any takers?

I have been in both Gail's and Matt's shoes long before I ever went to work at S.L. Ford. I even went as far as phoning O.H.& S myself with safety issues I had in in a previous shop I worked at and found myslef looking for a new job shortly after. And while you cannot be fired for wanting safety issues to be looked at, Once management in a dealership has the impression that you are a trouble maker, "YOUR FUCKING DAYS ARE NUMBERED"! And they usually have a really good suspicion as to whom the trouble makers are! With the economy the way it is in the U.S. that is financial suicide! And with what I see going on around here in Alberta and all the shops I visit these days, trouble makers days are numbered! You can and will be replaced with a foreign cheap laborer. That is the Mentality in the area I serve on right now. I am walking into shops now that don't have a fucking certified North American Tech pulling wrenches, yet it seems that if a Service Manager or at least one other person in the building holds a Journeyman ticket, they can fudge the system into believing that there are certified people there pulling wrenches. The other side I see is the fact that the majority of these foreigners are all buying their own shop equipment for the side work they do at home in their back yards. It scares me knowing that these uncertified backyarders are repairing vehicles on a regular basis that is aimed at everyone else down the highway. Jim, you also need to think about the fact that you work in the only shop that I know of and have ever heard of that pays their techs to do hoist inspections and maintenance on a regular schedule during regular wroking hours as well. You work in a very rare shop with a very rare Dealer Principal! Doug is an amazing guy and I believe he is the last of his extinct bread. Therefore you are "FUCKING SPOILED"! That's just a joke. You are actually treated the way you should be. But you're stilled spoiled compared to everywhere else out there! Before I came to S.L Ford, I had worked at a dealership where I had dropped four trucks off my worn out old Hydra-lift hoist that had absolutely no locks on the "BENT" arms before they decided to replace the hoist. Then I dropped three trucks off that very same kind of Hydra-lift hoist at another dealership after that before they decided to replace that hoist for the very same reason. Yes, seven trucks I have dropped off of unsafe hoists before I ever came to work at S.L. Ford. I had a hard time getting used to the fact that we had so much maintenance and inspections in place at S.L. Ford. Because to this day it is the only dealership that I know of that has those measurements and guidelines in place. S.L. Ford and Doug Babiy should be used as role models in our industry, but to be honest with you, the rest of the industry doesn't give a rats ass about how safe you are at S.L. Ford. All they care about is Money and expenses. And your practices in that dealership are seen as nothing more than foolish expenses to all the other assholes in management out there. Hell, it was only about four weeks ago that I walked into the Chrysler dealership in Wainwright to see the Fucking Shop Foreman of all people removing a transaxle from a mini van with two pry bars criss crossed from the strut towers and the rad support and holding the engine up with mechanics wire wrapped around the throttle body! And after explaining to him that the proper engine cradle was only $160.00 which was about the same value as the two pry bars he was using, he basicly told me in a Liberal pollictaly correct manner to Fuck Off! You sir, are spoiled and have forgotten what it is like to work for fuckers like this out there! Take care! I know you are in a safe shop! O.K. Now I'm ready for a long winded reply form you. But keep in mind that it just doesn't matter to most managers and shops out there!

We (Mac Tools) sell them as well. "Currently" (I hope they get better in the future)They really shine for Japanese and European products but are something to be desired for North American products. I had a loaner that I was lending out to shops for a year and I couldn't sell even one X431 after letting folks see what they are like for themselves. I gave the loaner back to my District Manager. But it sure pumped my Mentor sales up.

Some air ratchets do take grease just like some impacts take grease. However, you want to make sure that you actually use "Air Tool Grease" and not just a Molly based grease. Molly based greases are too thick and eventually dry up and will slow your tool down. Your air ratchet most likely has a worn out thrust washer or even possibly a ratchet housing. Sometimes with this design the ratchet housing unit which is #2 in this schematic http://www.aircat.com/core/files/aircat/products/d35c992f2efd99d2260cbd20ee72a4ea.pdf will spread and will not have enough preload to allow the anvil gear to turn properly. #6 and 7B are the thrust washers and wave spring washers which I replace allot of. They are always the first items to wear and are most likely worn out on your ratchet. Just be sure to check the head (#2) for wear as well. This style of head only requires air tool oil for lubrication in the head once in a while. You can order these parts through your local Mac Tools Distributor. Our Part numbers are AR802-35 for the Ratchet Housing and then you have to buy an anvil repair kit to get the washers which is a part number of AR199Q-AK. The issue is that this repair kit is $62.99 and the housing is $53.99. Hopefully you only need a repair kit and not a housing because you could buy a comparable air ratchet from your Mac Guy for approx $150.00.

The Mac Tools product team actually looked into this unit and producing it. They didn't say what the cost was, but they did say that it was far too expensive to even consider. And if they say that, trust me it's worth a a pretty penny. Do you folks think the average tech would consider this product?

These places have done such a great job of smearing not only Ford's image in the mud but also every dealerships image through the mud. It would be nice to see the Big companies like Ford, Dodge (oh yeah.........I mean Fiatt), Chev, Toyota, Honda, etc start campaigns to get their professional images back. I mean just look at the filth and garbage that goes on on the internet with all the bashing of dealerships these days. I think it's time they let the little monkeys have a frickin beating!

Keith, I can concur, but I think it's simply the fact that this guy goes against everything we all stand for. I know I myself took great pride in my Ford career and still feel very proud about it even after I have left it. He is attacking every single Ford technicians pride out there and I think most folks are so darned sick of him, they just want to take him already. That's all I ever see in any of his rants and videos is how much better he is than any Ford Dealership tech out there and how piss poor all Ford techs are. He really is a piece of work! O.K. I'm gonna highjack this thread a little. I think actually met Bills brother at a Chrysler dealership I call on. He is the Shop Foreman and I found him removing a transaxle from a front wheel drive with two pry bars criss crossed (one run across the two strut towers and the other run acropry bart prybar to a pieceacross actross the the rad support and mechanics wire wrapped around the horn of the throttle body. I think I offended him when I laughed my ass off and told him that a proper 1000lb Transverse bar with rad support bar and chains and hooks is only $160.00 and considered safe. I really wanted to snap a photo, but I think I pissed him off enough as is!

Anyone seen the lastest?

If this was early in the beginning of his 6.0L expertise and professionalism as the world bestest online trainer for internet 6.0L army recruits, maybe he forgot to read that wee little piece of paper that has the torque procedure and specs for the studs and torqued them the factory way stretching them three times with a 3/4" impact. That may have been before he became a professional secret mustard smear sandwich applicator. Jus sayin! Have any of you thought of startin up a fan page for him on Facebook? I bet Alex would be all in for that.I think that could be allot of fun!

Seen on the side of a Tool box: Co-workers are like Christmas lights. They all hang together, half of the fuckers don't work, and the ones that do aren't all that bright!

Hopefully 2013 will bring us all as much entertainment as 2012 has! And with society getting stupider every year, I think we will see even better entertainment in 2013. Here is 2012's Ultimate Fails Compilation from Youtube:

I have run 15W40 during the summer months in my 7.3L and 0W40 in the winter months ever since I've owned it. Why? Because I tow! Every spring I find that when it is getting warm and I'm working the hell out of the engine it gets a choppy idle due to aeration with 0W40. I switch it to 15W40 for the summer and it idles perfectly smooth. I have always found that 7.3L engines were more affected by aeration than the 6.0L and 6.4L when the oil temp's get high. Call me crazy, but my engine don't like 0W40 in hot weather! Ford used to have a chart in one of the TSB's about the effectiveness of each multi viscosity oil weight and it's thermal breakdown protection based on the weights and the temperatures. referred refered to the 6.0L and "6.4L" engines when I was talking about oil aeration causing rough or choppy idle issues. I think I may have had waaaaay too much Christmas Cheer! There is no way in hell the 6.4L engine would be affected by that being that they are not a HEUI injection system. I'm feeling much better now though!

Merry Christmas to ya all!

Make sure that big connector at the driver side valve cover doesn't have a bent bracket causing the harness to lay on the valve cover and rub through. I have seen that happen many times were the wire rubbed trought to the copper in that harness and it will arc through to the valve cover giving you that code if the right circuit is rubbing on that cover. Happened on my own truck and every time I washed the engine it would miss because the water would conduct from the harness to the cover.