DwayneGorniak

I take the money and run on that TSB. But I work for it. I actually interview and reeducate my customers on how to properly operate and maintain their trucks. That's when I clock on to MT time, I pull out my coffee table book and open it up a couple of pages in to the torque and horsepower chart. Then I give them the schpeal. Getting a visual picture in their mind is they key. I explain to them that if they are running under 2000 rpm's, they are simply lugging the engine and carboning the hell out of it. I show them in that chart that from 2000 rpm's to wide open throttle is how you keep that engine running clean. I tell all my customers to run their trucks in tow/haul mode at all time. Just get in the habbit of turning it on as soon as you get in the truck. I explain to them that it does not kill overdrive and that it is a different shift strategy in the computer that treats the transmission like a manual. We have alot of oil patch operators, oil field consultants and farmers up here that drive lease roads at about 60 t0 80 km/hr. I tell them that when they are in tow/haul mode the tranny will automaticly downshift into second gear at those speeds and keap their rpm's around or above 2000 rpm's. It also works great for lane changing in the cities. The rpm's are up, the power is up and when you stomp on that pedal they get up and go. I also tell them not to idle for more than five minutes and for gods sake don't baby it. Don't bag the ever living sh!t out of it either though. Drive it like you stole it. I also give them the lowdown on proper maintenace and good clean fuel. I also explain the differences of ultra low sulfur fuel versus low sulfur fuel and I use that as the primary excuse to brainwash them into using the additives. It works. I have happy regular customers (as happy as a sick litre customer can be) and I see them in for more maintenace than repairs. And thanks to the TSB, I get paid for it. Because I believe I am diagnosing the coking issue by getting to the route cause: Driver education about poor engineering.

You say it was waxy. It wouldn't be a residue byproduct of Biodiesel would it? I don't see any bio diesel up here, but I hear it's being run more commonly down your way.

Kenneth I diagnose very similar to you. I think it is important to look at all the steps in the TSB and understand them thoroughly. Cooling fan speed versus commanded duty cycle is overlooked all too often and I see alot of repeat repairs from other dealerships in our area as a result. I do agree with Tony on the fifteen degrees. I have heard the same thing from Hotline. Heres my theory: After the truck is successfully repaired and running within specs, double check your work and monitor PID's on a road test. Get to know what is good and what is bad. Even take brand new trucks and monitor PIDS to know what is good. Example: I find new engine oil coolers or fairly new engines run at about 8 to 10 degrees hotter on EOT than the ECT when I am working the ever living crap out of the engine. Knowing what is good, I pick on what I see as bad. Know your goods and bads folks. It works for me.

Has anyone seen the new Dodge 4500 and 5500 series yet. I think they will be putting some fear int FOMOCO. http://www.dodge.com/dodge_life/news/tru...x&type=textLink

I'm totlally behind you on that one Keith. And you are so right about doing the right thing. Integrity.

#8 Long Lead injectors are designed to run on less fuel Because that cylinder allways runs lean. I can't remember all too well, But I think they will run lean because they are designed to run on less fuel. That could posibly melt pistons. I think I also remember a another post or reply by Jim Warman on this.

Or as you pull the paddy wagon into the shop and another tech is walking by you lay on the siron. Bubble wrap under the wheels before they pull out of their bay is another good one. A seat belt pretensionser in their vise with alot of wire and a nine volt battery works well too just as they walk back into their bay. Oh yeah, you gotta keap an air horn in your tool box for those special occasions as well. These are the little things that make the day worthwile and non forgetable. Helps relieve tension after the shorts get scraped out.

The OTC will most likely due the trick for you on 7.3L's, but it's the future of the CAN systems that I would be concerned about. If you are working on that wide of a variety of systems, I think I would still be interested in the Autoenginuity system. From what I have read about it on the internet, you can get CAN adoptors for it as well. And the initial cost is cheap. $249.95 with CAN. It by far looks like the best and most economical scan tool system I have seen yet. I don't know anyone that can give me any feedback on it though. Try this Link: http://www.autoenginuity.com/order.html

That puts us in the same erra Alex. I was born in June of 1973. Year of the Ox. I've been told being a Gemini Ox is really unpredictable. Gemini's supposedly have really bad tempers and Ox's have alot of patience and understanding. That's kinda how I am. Lots of patience, but I loose it man I a looose it! So I try to keep my inner demon hidden untill the time is right. Just like on the Protech website, Hugh?

Steve I'd have to agree ith Bruce. We have a Mac Mentor wich is an Otc unit. And it is limited. I stongly suggest buying a laptop with XP Pro and trying to talk your boss into buying a VCM. If you convince your boss that you are eating some of the cost, he just may se it being economical for him to purchase the VCM or software for it if you already have one. That's exactly what I did. Bought my own laptop two years ago and my dealer principal bought an extra VCM for me to use. If you have your own laptop, you can do with it what you want. You can even buy the Autoenginuity scan tool software and install it on your laptop and you will then have a dual purpose scan tool. The capabilities are endless. And let me tell you, it is so nice having my own scan tool and never having to wait for one. I also don't have to worry about all the other techs running the darn thing dead and forgetting to plug it in. I also have a 175 watt power inverter that I cary in my laptop case and use for those extended diags. My battery is never dead. Just my two cents again.

Good thing you didn't have it on with a full bladder hugh? lol.

Well Jim, I can't stand country music but I love Johny Cash. The world truly lost a good soul when he passed away. The same goes for his wife June. My whole damn familly listened to nothe but old crap like Mearl Haggard and Kenny Rogers and whole lotta freakin Polka. Any who, born in Montmartre Saskatchewan Where dad a mom farmed in Glenavon on my Grandpa's homestead and for most of my young life. Lived in Saskatchewan all my life till I moved out to Alberta just over seven years ago in Dec of 2000. I know just about every darn goat path in Saskatchewan. If I remember correctly, I was concieved in the back seat of my dad 60's Plymouth that had the push button gears on the dash. I just can't remember what line of Plymouth that was. I remember it was purple with wite leather look a like vynil interior and there were bullet holes in the driver side. My Grandpa came accross from Ukraine and was in the canadian army. He took all the money he made in the military and bought a farm and his first team of horses and a plow to break the land. He then made money not only farming but also training teams of horses and breaking them in for other farmers in the area. oh yeah and his other side profit was moonshine. The Royal Canadian Mounted police were allways after him trying to find out where he stashed his supply. My dad's job when he was young was to stash the supply for grandpa and make sure the cops didn't find it. When the cops asked my dad and grandpa where the stash was, they allways told them that the dogs had it. Only my dad could near the dogs, not even his four brothers or sister could go near the dogs without the dogs tearing them apart. Grandpa had a dirt cellar in the ground where dogs slept underneath the porch. The cops never did catch on. But he never did lie, which was something enstilled in our morals. Ony who again, I started racing dirt bikes cross country when I was 11 years old and that wasw where I started to get interested mechanical things. Dad allways told that I could buy what ever I wanted with my own money that I earned but I had to learn how to look after those things and fix them myself. So here I am today. Back to the Plymouth, I remember Dad allways taking us on weekend drives down to the USA and laying on that huge back dash with my brother counting the stars on the way to the U.S. We took other trips with that car to Alberta and B.C to see the Rockies. Never ever went east of Winnipeg though. Dad said there was nothing any good out that way. Just a bunch of damn Liberals. So I,ve found my self travelling Western Canada and U.S as much as I can whenever I ccan afford it. I took a holliday in Skagway Alaska quite a few years ago and it was one the most beautifull places I have ever seen. but then again I,ve never been out east. I would love to see Newfoundland and drink some skreech out there with those crazy buggers some day. So as I started my career in this trade out Saskatchewan I was nick named the High tech redneck by the Journeymen that brought me up. They were all city boys by the way. I won't even get into my teenage years because let me tell you there are whole lot of stories there that could just take forever.

Tony, if you can get your hands a movie called "Escanaba in da Moonlight" which stars Jeff Daniels, I promise you that you will get a better understanding of the way of life up here. It is a low budget movie that is a few years old so you will have to look around for it. Up here in Canada we can rent it at Movie Gallery. It resembles alot of similarities between us up here and you guys down der eh. But let me tell you, you will laugh yer ars off at uncle Albert shootin his first buck while takin his early morning ritual crap on the ol' two holer eh. I recomend it to anyone. And Alex, I'm darn sure you will like it too eh. All though you will all tink I'm just a little screwed up eh. Just go rent it and watch it. The ending is a little too screwed up for even me to understand though.

Ah, how right you are Jim. But don't forget that I originally come from Saskatchewan where running boards, bug deflectors and mudfalps are permanent fixtures on Focuses and Tauruses and most cars. Where there are hardly any paved roads at all. And where the pot holes are actually bigger than cars on the handfull of paved highways that run through the whole province. Where wide open throttle is the the only way you can fly over the potholes without sinking into a black hole that will take you into another galaxy. Where you have to watch out for the intoxicated sleeping on the middle of the roads after a long hard party on the reserve because the mosquitos in the grass are the size of small sparows. Anyway, my real point is simply that nothing is serviced for life. Jim if you ever want to exchange stories about where we are from we can start a new post. It's all true you know.

Hmmm let me think about that Alex and then I'll post a nice reply. Just kiddin man it would be too long.

We can't read it in Canada yet. It has to go through all that figgin french and metric conversion crap. Damn seperatist nazi's.

I use vaseline and yes they go together tight. I put them in the press to press them together.

Damn straight open connectors cause Idm's to fail. See it quite often. I too have test IDM's. One for the older 97' and down's and one for the 99's and up.

I know this is about diesels, but how about those focus filtered for life air breathers with filter minders hugh? What a freakin joke that is!

Neither am I Alex, because it happens out here all the time and know damn well I will see one eventually.

You know, I have to say that I am very happy with my decision to stay in the trade. I did get a descent raise when I scared my D.P. and I can't complain. However, the pay for me isn't so much of an issue. It's the expense. I am not one of those cheap bastard techs like I work with that will file down a screw driver and use it for a punch before they actually buy a punch and chisel set. I run my bay as my business. Because that is exactly what it is. I buy flat rate tools to do flat rate work. Or you could say that I buy efficient tools to do efficient work. I invest into my business and I try to make my business as efficient as possible. I also invest my heart and soul into it. I even buy tools that I shouldn't have to because my Service Manager is a cheap bastard. But like most shops I have worked in, he won't spend a dime because it eats away at his bonus based on gross profit. And I find myself buying tools that the shop should own. This was all part of my frustration with the place. But I was able to vent and dump all my frustrations on my D.P. He actually listened and we had a great outcome. Communication and understanding. my biggest beef is that we spend so damn much and most managers and Dealer Principals don't have a clue. My D.P. Didn't anyway. He figured I had about 20,000 dollars worth of tools. He almost choked when I told him I had 80,000 dollars worth. He only had us covered for 100,000 dollars in total for the whole shop (insurance). That was one of the changes he made after our talk. I never did bring up the topic of tool allowance. But I have seen some shops starting to pay tool allowances, which I think is at the very least some acknowledgement. And that is what I think is the biggest obstacle: Sales oriented Dealer Principals and managers that have no feakin idea what goes on in the backbone (service departments) of the dealerships. They only Know minimal investments with maximum profits. And you can't be that way anymore. It may have worked in the sixties but not anymore. Just my beef. But I feel much better know.

i pipe in Sirius satellite through my laptop all the time. I have an Fm transmitter that plugs into my usb port and all three radios in the shop pick it up. three techs on hollidays for the next two weeks so we're gonna listen to Hair nation for two weaks straight. Yeah Twisted sister Baby!

Tony I'm glad you like my sarcasm. Some people up here with Ford don't quit like it though. But hey, I figure if you can't have fun and joke around even sarcasticly a man will go insane in this trade. You should see the amount of fun we have at our shop. Our shop forman looks just like Borat. We also call the place the Dukes of Hazard. Our dealer principal's initials ar J.D. so we obviosly call him J.D.(Boss)Hog. Our service manager looks like and is called Rosco. Our parts manager is his pet Flash. And one of our old cougar service advisors is Daisy. Some of the guy's figure I'm Cooter. Might have something to do with the colour of my neck. Anyway, I know that's a little off subject so back to reality now.

I've never even heard of this contract. Our salesman wake up in the morning and put on their alternate identity masks before they come to work. then they lie their asses off and tell the customers they should get over 20 miles per gallon and there's nothing to worry about. When they go home at nite, they take their masks off and you swear they pulled their pants down and you were looking at a hairy asshole.

they say you can't machine the heads because there is only .006" to play with and you may touch the valves if the heads are machined to much. But a buddy of mine that owns a machine shop says he can machine the heads. He just has to recess the valves deaper into the heads. Just what I've been told.