Aaron

(My bad, those mentioned above are all 6.4 trucks)

My truck just rolled 190k. Buddy of mine same truck but a manual trans just rolled 215k. Maintenance makes these things live! Got one apart right now with 229k on it and the cam's dicked in it, and the oil looks like it's been changed...oh, twice, including last week I when I did it.

Jesus tap dancing Christ.

I had a couple set codes when I was at the dealer. P1335 if memory serves rightly.

Actually went down to the dragstrip today. Went to watch. Drove the hot rod, with the sticky tires in the backseat. Watched for about 80 seconds, then went back and bought a tech card and made a few passes. Went 11.55 @ 117mph. Drove car to track, drove home. Fun street car.

Well, it DOES say resident doctor. Hey doc, does this look infected?

Two. 1. Gas. 2. Sleepiness.

KOER in park, what does your EBP read if you smash the throttle wide open?

you mean the die grinder collet tool? That's the one. I was getting at I have seen more than one Indy shop take that fitting off the rail. Not a dig at all Indy shops but I have put together a couple trucks that came to me apart from other shops and one I know of for sure that fitting was taken off the rail, possibly another one but I can't remember.

Someone who doesn't have the proper disconnect tool?

I propose we start a funny/amusing picture thread. I'd like to keep them clean, within the site guidelines. Something to give us all a giggle after a long day of wrenching. I'll start. In high-def. I am the ship captain, I can't seem to locate the photo though. I have a similar facial expression to Kenny on the tricycle in the ship picture. This is actually my dog, I just captioned the picture because his facial expression was appropriate. My credentials: STOP. HAMMERTIME. I made this at the height of the toyota recall debacle in 09-10.

Ours is government funded. The students pay $400 and the government pays the remaining ~2500 per term.

Oh, he was flat rate at the dealer. He must have made about $8 a week. I think a lot of the trade school teachers just pass guys because they don't want to see them back again. "One of you guys is going to have to sign off on my book." Yeah.... Not in this lifetime.

4 foot piece, my mistake. Based on the rest of the stuff I saw, he wasn't messing with me.

What ain't no country I ever heard of, do they speak English in what?

I'm sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn't mean to do that. Please, continue, you were saying something about best intentions. What's the matter? Oh, you were finished! Well, allow me to retort. What does Marsellus Wallace look like?

I handed a "4th year apprentice" a tape measure and a 2 foot long piece of 2x4 and told him to mark it at 24 inches and we'd square it off and cut it. I walked back to the back shop to get a square and grab my coffee from my work bench. I come back and he's got it marked in a bunch of places. As politely as I can, I ask: "what the fuck are you doing?" He replies that he's marking it at 24 inches. "Dual graduation tape measure, broseph. Centimeters be the small ones. Large divisions on the tape are the inches." Not a good first impression.

But the important thing was, I had an onion on my belt. Which was the style at the time.They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER!

Yep. I would have sent his ass home.

Apparently you have to lock the doors twice, then hit the button twice. I seem to recall reading it on the internets.

Two thumbs up!!

That and based on the old geezer thing the car probably has 7/10 of a mile on it.

For those unaware, if you hit the remote start button when your truck is already running it stays running when you pull the key out. This is the old style command start system, not the integrated one on the new trucks. Apparently you can do it with the integrated system too, I'm just not sure how.

Good find on the pedal!

Ah, I didn't read the F650 part. Brain went "ooo! Big trucks! I like working on those!" Lol It's been a long week. New guy at the shop drains the smarts and energy right out of me having to babysit him alla time. It's facepalm like hand through your face facepalm. I am not against teaching, as we were all new at some point but this is just brutal. Ever see someone holding a tool and it looks very unnatural, like they have no idea what it is for? That's this guy. 4th year apprentice, apparently. Worked at a ford dealer in Toronto for like 2 years. Watched me put a clutch cable in a 03 cobra. I asked him to help me bleed it kind of as an offhanded joke. He told me no problem he had done that before.