Aaron

Would have to cause a safety concern like stalling to qualify for a recall, and like it was said in fight club: Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents? Narrator: You wouldn't believe. Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for? Narrator: A major one.

Actually to be honest, I don't think those look like ARP studs. The ARP studs we have installed at work have been black oxide studs, with black oxide nuts. That one almost looks like it's got a chrome coating on it...Hard to say though, and I can't hardly see shit on this monitor.

I am quite partial to Irontite. I used it in a 2.2 Litre Cavalier that had a cracked head. Once it got hot, it WOULD NOT KEEP COOLANT in the degas bottle. It was blowing it out all over the ground. Got some irontite in it, filled 'er up with water/antifreeze. Guy drove it for almost a year and a half, before he smashed up the car.

+1 on that, Keith! Two guys dropping cars off at the store I was at before, left two bags of trash and a piss bottle in front of the dealer last time they were there. And that was the LAST time they were there, because the DP caught them doing it, and he was not a man that you screwed with.

That is one of the worst songs, ever. Actually, pretty much the entire collective works of Corb Lund and his band are pretty rough on the ears. Apparently they're called Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corb_lund_band Neat video though /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

Coulda swore I changed that. We gotta get some beers next time I'm down Dee-troit way. Edit: Fixded.

Those the hats I heard come in the glove box of a 6.0 so you can keep your ears warm when you've gotta walk up here in the great white north?

No, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Firefox has a built in spell checker and it doesn't clutter up your browser with extra junk.

There's currently a truck at our shop that has gone through 2 egr coolers, a heater core, and 2 oil coolers. Tech down the hall from me at work looked at the warranty history, and came to his own conclusions (correct, mind you), brought it over to me and showed me, we both had a pretty good laugh. This truck has around 36k miles on it, and hauls 10,000lbs every day. Head gasket failure at this low mileage. Doh!

It doesn't specify what is/isnt covered, so I emailed them. I will post the reply here.

MSD Ignition makes a VERY nice weather-pak connector kit, comes with terminals, hardshells, pins, ALL sortsa cool shit. Worth lookin into.

Great big 5ft 1" diameter torsion bar thrown on the floor behind someone works mint, even better than the big prybar. There was a guy across the shop from me doing timing chains or a tensioner or something on a 5.4 3V, and got it all buttoned up almost ready to start, and went for lunch. I then took the liberty of taking my spare crank trigger wheel out of the bottom drawer, and going over and setting it in plain view on the other tech's cart. He gets back from lunch, and looks at his cart, looks in at the engine, looks back at his cart, and repeats this several times, before he hangs his head and goes up to the lunchroom. Went up to eat my lunch and buddy is up there lookin all pissed, so I ask him what's up. He tells me, and I go oh, that sucks. He comes back down and there's about 15 guys standing around laughing. He saw the humor in it after it was all over.

Somethin' like that you'd NEED those ARP Non-Rubber studs to hold the heads on.

Listen, pal, I won't have you talking about the most qualified guy in the shop like that anymore, GOT IT? LMFAO /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif

It's a Ford/ESP type warranty, it's not an aftermarket deal like some of the other crap out there.

/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/puke.gif Thats just not right....

The workshop manual instructs you to remove the 'cooling module'. The condenser is removed seperately? Edit: Dang, didn't go far enough down to see RAD - 6.4 Diesel. Flat rate reading. Dah well.

Had #7 injector that required replacement on an 04 F today. Found the nut missing off the injector. How likely is this little guy to get sucked up into the pump? The customer does not want to spend the extra coin to drop the pan and hunt around for it, and I can't really say as if I blame him. As per hotline, he tells me that it WILL go through the pump screen. I fished around in the pan with a bendy magnet while i was changing the oil, and strained the oil as it came out, but was unable to find the piece. Flushed a couple litres through the head to see if i could dislodge it, still nothing. The last 6.0 I had the pan off of was an 06, and the pickup screen was REAL small. REAL REAL small, not like the one you can fire small children through I have seen on other motors.

Don't forget claiming evac and recharge!

Had a focus hanging on my hoist this week. Lady ran something over, tore the bottom of the oil pan off, and drove the car until it stopped. Insurance adjuster shows up. Wants to know how I know the engine is seized. Pulled my 3 foot breaker bar out of my toolbox and handed it to the insurance adjuster. Told him I had it on the end of the crank, and was hanging on it. I weigh 275lbs. It would not move. He then told me we should pull the motor, and then pull the head off and inspect to see if they could get away with just slamming a shortblock in it. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/icon_crazy.gif It's sitting outside now.

Just do a few "non authorized repairs". If you're not a level 1 dealer, you'll know. I heard that bullshit announcement when I was on the warmline phone the other day.

Which way do you put 'em in the vise? With the flat side of the ring facing the floor, so it takes the ring out of shape and breaks it in the center? Put a rag around it to keep the jaw marks off the sides? My favorite thing is the tag that comes in the NEW turbo box. DO NOT DISASSEMBLE THE TURBOCHARGER ASSEMBLY. Ford knows better than Garret, i guess.

There's a post on Inford about Verify60 and it's usage. What's it all about? Dwayne Gorniak might be able to help me out here /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif Thanks!

It's even got backpack straps on the bottom, so you can carry it around with you when you aren't driving it. I did a safety check on one of those at the store I used to work at - they are a PAIN to get up on the hoist, and there's no oil pan drain plug. They suck the oil out the dipstick tube. And the shifter/ignition is kinda poorly placed - if you shift it into second gear in the same manner I did - you'll shut the ignition off cause your forearm hits the key. Apparently, they are not using the diesel in them anymore from what I heard it will not meet the emissions standards.

I have a great big orange dead blow hammer, 16lb, with a 3 foot handle I got from the Mac man. In other news, I had a busted balljoint press, that I cut the lug off the end with the threads (on the c-clamp bit) so it will go through the hole in the wheel. You then thread the balljoint press screw into the threaded hole in the piece of metal, and roll it down so it's pushing against the inside wheel (usually a steelie anyways) and climb on 'er with the impact. Pulls the wheels off every time. And once you get the outer wheel off, you could put the end of said press screw on the brake pad, or drum, dependant on year. I have found that this works QUITE well, until my tool went missing. The dealer I used to work at paid me .5 to get wheels off for guys. Need another warranty balljoint press.