Aaron

Did you see the date on that article?

It kinda smells like vomit though.

Originally Posted By: mrbudge

Is this thread officially hijacked yet?

Back on topic I just replaced a radiator on a 2008 E450 with a V-10 gasser. The part was $781. What the fuck! Am I the only one that finds that to be out of control?

This is going back awhile, but I put an engine in a Purolator van a number of years back, and they wanted the radiator replaced as kind of a preventative thing. If I recall rightly, the replacement radiator was around $140. This was a 5.4 gas E-strip chassis.

Sometimes you get really surprised. Wheel bearings for a Tornass was another one, the OEM ones were cheaper than the jobber ones!

Bedplate won't leak on that motor. It's gotta get past the paint first.

Check this baby out, outside in the sun. Was nice out so I rolled the chassis outside:

Man did that ever stink when I fired it. Come to think of it - you could still smell the wet paint when it was sitting there outside in the sun.

I had my first 6.7 with gas in it a couple days ago. The guy filled up his truck and went to Home Depot and went back to his shop and then he got to thinking he might of put gas in it and called us and he said it's still running outside. We told him to shut it off and tow it in.

When I get one with gas in the tank I use a diesel fuel hydrometer to see how much diesel is in the gas. Pure gas will not float the bulb and the more diesel that's in the gas the more it floats. If it doesn't float we will put the gas in employees cars. Well this didn't float so it was close to pure gas and it actually ran. I drained the tank, flushed the lines, and replaced the fuel filters. The thing actually started and runs fine.

Did you file a CUDL? Terminate fuel system warranty?

This is going to get jammed up someone else's ass at another dealer down the road, I'd bet. Truck starts losing injectors/a pump and nobody can determine the root cause...

The Clown Dink plant is about 30 minutes from my home, it's creepy to drive by and see the parking lot EMPTY.

Funny you mention that.

I'd have been reviewing US claims only.

A truck in Alberta with tampered emissions control equipment? Say it ain't so!

Did a set cab on with studs on my buddy's king ranch with the cab on and disc herniations at l2-l3, l3-l4, and l4-l5.

It sucked. Big time.

Also - look in the bore for the sensor, have seen rust up there too, near the o-ring land causing issues as well. If you have one that wont start, pull the o-rings off and install it as a fluke.

You're welcome.

Text from Aaron to Brad, 1036am:

11s25: hahahahahahahahah

I do the same. Typically don't tack the nut though. I pour the coal to 'er and let the heat do the work for me.

i4 with 4x4 gonna be an animal in the snow.

if the axle fell out/broke on a vehicle i was driving, the likelihood of me wheelin' it again is pretty fuckin slim

Climate control ticket...expired.

Wow, the stuff I don't miss.

They get bent if you mix antifreeze more than 50/50 - even if the climate dictates it.

I had a job as a diesel claims warranty auditor. Couldn't get a US work permit.

I coulda been that guy everyone hated (even more than most people do now

HAPPY TRUCKING ASSHOLE!

Dude, that was awesome.

Lift truck on hoist.

Blow all the bolt heads off the cab mounts with the gas axe.

Lift cab.

Heat bolt directly at cage nut/Loctite.

Wind out stud/remnants of mount bolt with pliers.

Beer.

Works every time.

There is a place in Windsor, Ontario that does it. DPF Cleaning Solutions is the name if I recall rightly.

We fixed his 08 450 a year and a half or so back in London here.

(Diesel particulate filter cleaning guy filled his truck with gasoline )

492,000MI on an 08.

OH! And FWIW: Wouldn't a stage one pneumatic cleaning be a supersized Mexican Manual Regen?

Locked out is you go to show up for work and there is a fence around your workplace.

This is not my current situation, it's the situation at the factory next to where I work.

Progress Rail (subsidiary company of Caterpillar) bought the plant about a year or so ago. Caterpillar has made itself somewhat of a reputation of being a union breaking company.

At this point, this situation has had little impact on my job. AT THIS POINT.

However - our shop uses their boiler for heat, and also there is a large demonstration planned for the 21st of January - likely going to plug the entire road up near both places, causing a disruption in overtime hours at our place.

What would you do:

You have very little employable skills. You've spent the last 10 years screwing in bolts, with little more than a high-school diploma. You've been making about 70 grand a year doing so. Straight 40 hours a week, no overtime. Two weeks of shutdown in the summer, week off at christmas, plus two weeks of vacation. All paid. Not included are the various 3 day weekends that your collective agreement has turned into four day weekends.

Now, after the expiration of your collective agreement, and the sale of your employer - the new owners want to cut your wages by about half, as well as your benefits.

The options: accept the lesser offer, continue working.

OR

Decline the offer, be locked out of work for an undetermined amount of time, and then have the factory moved out of country.

What would YOU do?

http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2012/01/09/19222376.html

In Ontario Mike? It don't matter. That'd be a light duty diesel, only requirement would be the visible idle smoke test. Easy breezy.

Tell 'em it's got a 6.0 in it still - it'll pass. Even if they question it - it's then classed as a hot rod, anyways.

I've found that staring at boobs for three or four hours seems to make me dumber than a box of shit!

I wouldn't let the clowns from Spartan do a tune on my lawnmower.

Their knowledge of making horsepower seemingly has become "FUEL AND AIR = POWER" after Mike left and started doing his own thing.

Put the finishing touches on one of these today. That's what was in my stall