DwayneGorniak

Baro, Map,,EGR duty cycle, EGR position, always ICP presure and voltage together, MGP, VGT duty cycle, and RPM's and sometimes FICM pids and others deponding on the way the truck is running. And I always watch the relations between MGP and VGT duty cycle on a road test. Another one I look at alot now is Drive cycles comleted because you can't view distance since last clear on the 03's. This helps when you think some jackass is running a programmer and clearing the memory before they come into the dealership. Oh, and don't forget to pull your crystal ball out of your ars and give it a rub for really wierd ones. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/icon_crazy.gif

/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hahaha.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/fouet3.gif This is my home network.

Hmmm, so it doesn't just apply to a bunch of rattling pistons getting ready to melt. Thanks for the good info Keith. Happy new year! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/drinkingdude.gif

Download rate of 2172KB/Sand upload rate of 659KB/S on our wireless network at work. Ping of 34 MB/S. I didn't know internet pinged. What the hell is ping on the internet?

A 10 at two or a two at ten. A fox by nite and a mangy coyote by morning. Coyote ugly....had to almost chew my arm off a few times in my lifetime. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cover.gif Damn Jim, do you ever think that maybe that American beer down south is tamed down for a reason? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/drinkingdude.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cover.gif

Doohhhh! You mentioned the U sware word. Maybe if Jim is going into an alcohol hypnotosis sleep, he will let it slide. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

Hmmmmm, we have alot of oil patch trucks up here that cary big Methane fuel tanks in the back. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/flamethrower.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cover.gif

Yupp! I didn't say they were crap, I just said they were ugly. But then again, beauty is within the eye of the beholder.

Sorry Anthony, we should get back on topic about hot beds. Let me tell you, do I have stories about hot beds. But we'll leave that alone.

What can I say? I am always trying in some way to make everyone laugh. I hope everyone laughs! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif I have had that Avatar kickin around for quite some time. I just wasn't sure if it would offend anyone or not. But I think most of everyone on this site knows what I'm like by now. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/icon_crazy.gif

And that Tundra is butt freakin ugly from the front fenders forward! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/puke.gif Have you ever noticed the dinky little tailpipe on them? Looks like a lawn mower exhaust.

But it's OK to touch the turbo's, pipes and exhaust manifolds? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/scratchhead.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif How about the heated seats? They could really burn someones ass when those elements give out. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/flamethrower.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smhair.gif I haven't actually checked it out but now you've got me curious. Hmmm a new form of radiant heat for the shop. What will they warn us about next? Sorry to highjack the thread buut......has anyone read the warnings they give us on the back of oil bottles. "Used oil can cause skin cancer on cantact". So that brings me to this question: do you wash your hands before or after you go to the washroom? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif I wash Mine before and after. Don't need any valuables to fall off. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

like I said earlier, It happened to me eight years ago. It was hell. Then the dealership I was at before here, but I was smarter by that time and did not agree to it right away. I had them pay my rent instead untill my probation was up and told them to hold off with the bonus untill my probation was up. I never even made it through the probation period and I bailed. Wound up here and am much happier. P.S just because these were my experiences doesn't meen every dealership is like this. All I am saying is just don't lock yourself into a contract immediatley without knowing the unknown. Get them to write the contract stating "after probationary period" and negotiate your moving expences. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/readthis.gif If you think about, this will protect both parties. Just be smart and cautious.

My wife's birthday is Dec.17th and my sons is Jan. 3rd. Man what an expensive stretch. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/2cents.gif

Well Jim, I can certainly agree with having a one year contract on 12g's. Holy crap /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/surprise.gif that's alot of dough. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/surprise.gif But I like your bosses ideas about giving bonus's to your already existing eployees. Those are attractive bonus's that will make tech's want to stay there. And if they are treated well (which I'm sure they are) techs become very loyal. I have found myself in the last few years interviewing employers for careers and looking into their backgrounds just as much as I had been interviewed by them. Some of the contract issues I was refering to were from some of my past experiences that I have either been in or seen at dealerships I have worked at: signing bonus's with a contract, contracts to remain employed for one year after being sent to school for training, contracts to remain employed for duration of internal car loans, and never any bonus's, etc. I've seen some not to pleasant situations which has always made me very cautious. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/readthis.gif And my point is just simple: I have found it more pleasant to work for employers who give bonus's for good work versus employers who try to hand out contracts for every little thing they help you out with and lock you into their dept for another year. Oh yeah, the shell is fine. A couple of nicks and scratches, but just fine.

I have had my own laptop/IDS that I keep in my locker cabinet for two and a half years now. And alot like Jay-D I don't have anyone in my shop to turn to but all the resources in front of my face when I am in front of my laptop. It truly is the most valuable tool I have. Between online service publications, OASIS, Tech Hotline, and common sense, I hold my own as well. Keep up the good work Jay-D. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbup.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/fouet3.gif

There are alot of dealerships up here offering $5000.00 signing bonuses up front, "BUT" you have to sign a contract stating that you will remain employed at that dealership for one year. I have been offered that same bonus a few times. The last time I was offered that bonus, I denied it and told the dealership to pay for all my moving expenses instead. I lasted one month then wound up here and had my moving expenses looked after with no contract. Been here three years now. I had been in a contract eight years ago and it was hell. It is usually dealerships that have high a turnaround that offer these contracts.I consider these contracts as entrapment. The way I see it: If the dealership knows they are any good to work for, they should feel comfortable in knowing that their new employees will stay. And they should stick their neck out a little to prove it!

Happy Ho Ho and merry holidays to everyone as well. I'm off till the 27th so I'll probably be checking back in then. Gonna do some drinking and quaddin and have a blast. Not all at the same time though. Don't drink and drive everyone. Keep safe and keep your sticks on the ice. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/drinkingdude.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbup.gif

Our dealership is in the same boat that Jim's is in. They put us smaller dealerships into the same group of dealerships that are in the city. Then they compare our numbers of sold units to the city dealerships which are obviously smaller and then compare our numbers of units repaired to the city dealerships. And being that we repair alot of trucks,our ratio of vehicles repaired to vehicles sold is through the freakin roof. Isn't that a biotch? If you have a good service department, you're being bad. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif

Same crap here. All I can say is cross your t's and dot your I's with damn good stories to back yourself up. Or is that cross your eyes and grind your teeth? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/scratchhead.gif

I preach it day in and day out to my young apprentices, always check OASIS. I also preach the number one rule I learnt in college as an apprentice by my ex military instructor: R.T.F.B (read the f@ckin book). I have slightly modified R.T.F.B to R.T.F.C. now (read the f@ckin computer). It always has the most up to date versions of specs and procedures. My young Diesel Gynaecologist in training is doing quite well with it.

My truck came back yesterday with the same code. When I did remove the thermostats, the top one was badly scored. Hotline had me reflash the PCM this time though. Will most likely come back again. As Mutter said, don't remove the shroud. I just removed the right hand battery and degas bottle assembly. Then remove the bottom verticle EGR cooler bracket. The hold down for the thermostat housing is a bit tricky. Once you figure it out though, it's not that bad. You have to flip the back of the hold down up toward the front of the engine and turn it slightly counter clockwise and it will pull right off of the housing. Then the housing slides right out. I made money on that job. Took about an hour and a half for my first time. The next one will be much faster. However, the whole design of this engine is still "RETARDED"! WTF were they thinking? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/scratchhead.gif Oh yeah, right, they don't think. Computer designing and engineering does it for them. Looks great on a screen, right? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/icon_crazy.gif

Anything i order through Rotunda, I just order through the dealership P&A code. Then they just bill it to my acount internally.

So true. That's why I jumped on it now before they are all sold out.

I phoned Rotunda right after my last post and I just ordered mine this morning for $370.00 Canadian, EH! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/poke.gif They figure they will be in stock around X-Mas.