Aaron

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Hey Mike, try signing up for Partsvoice.com -- nationwide US search for free. I find it quite useful because our parts guys can't seem to locate stuff sometimes, and I'll go "Well, Atchison Ford shows one" or whatever they are called, just across the border. If you can get it to larry, I can pick it up, and we can do the DTS underground railroad thing to get it to you.

I dunno, the 2011 ones look like POOP though, I will chime in here.

^^ Agreed. I had a hotline guy tell me the other day that he had never seen that before. So I asked him, so does that mean it can't happen? The phone got real, real quiet.

Some Irontite. But seriously, if it's been overheated...aluminum heads....ehhhh....I dunno about this one, but I am thinking that you may be getting some water into that #1 hole, if it's eating spark plugs and misfiring. Just my opinion.

I'll ask first.... What's owner advantage? Is this a USA thing or does Canada have it too?

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http://www.customautosbytim.com/2011FordExcursion.html Found this on the net in my travels, thought it was kinda neat. Pricey... But neat. Can you imagine rolling up to a dealer with a 2011 truck and having it be an Excursion or the look on the advisor's face when they go out to do a walk around? LOL!

Yah. She's getting an E-mail, for fuckin' sure.

I am also quite partial to the "RE USE THE GASKET" part of the TSB... That'll keep the coolant out when the degas bottle goes for a shit, or the heater hose rubs through on the FICM case...

Get the little butane torch out... PERFORMED HARD START NO START DIAGNOSIS FOUND P0611 AND ALL 8 INJECTOR CIRCUIT CODES CHECKED OASIS FOUND TSB BLAHBLAH (number will have likely changed 14 times between now and the actual claim) AS PER TSB, CIRCUIT BOARD APPEARED BURNT REPLACED FICM ASSEMBLY PERFORMED PMI AND TESTED OPERATION OK AT THIS TIME. NO FURTHER CORRECTIVE ACTION REQUIRED AT THIS TIME. CLEARED CODES RECHECKED FOR CODES NONE FOUND. JOB COMPLETE. RELEASE VEHICLE.

Isn't that fraud, on a much larger level, since the identification used in these cases is your Social Security Number?

In a way, yes...but in another way... I'm also saying...the weenies on the internet are just soldering shit up, not replacing any parts, and apparently getting good FICMs out of the deal. So how are we replacing parts, soldering/repairing nothing, yet arriving at the same result? One of these repairs (the weenie repair vs the Ford repair) is going to have issues in the longevity department...I'm just anxious to find out which one.

I seriously thought that smoke screen thing was a joke... Someone please tell me that it is...

Oh, you mean the stuff that if you actually tried in a Toyota pickup (should you be able to keep it from driving around full throttle) you'd die doing it, since that truck is a huge pile of shit? I saw an ad today for Toyota...said "Why is summer best to buy a Toyota?" my immediate answer was: because the lake/river you end up in after the uncontrollable acceleration event won't be near as cold as it would be in the winter?

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I told him to leave an email address so I could forward the website contact info -- I didn't wanna have the spies from FoMoCo canada trying to sign up and learn all our secretive warranty tricks!

Oh, and I bet like on the export 6.4 trucks, that extra muffler is about $1300. Thanks for posting the VIN, too

Hot off the Inford presses: Quote: MITCHELL PARKER B6224 MONAHAN FORD HIGH PRAIRIE , AB posted Jul 22, 2010 4:55PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- have a 6.7 no start in the shop, no comunication with the pcm. wsm has no information yet on how to daig. cluster wont show the milage and it shows tpms fault starter faul, engine over heat( engine is cold) advance track fault. has anyone else seen this yet? Thanks, im in the process of contacting hotline.

Bitchin! Thanks brotha!

Export stuff sure is neat... It's a de-rated calibration though, I bet.

That should be "TSB" not THREAD...but you guys get the idear.

This is gonna get ugly, real fast, I'm thinking. I'm no electrical engineer, I can see when shit's burned up on a circuit board, but what next? Check all the logic gates, resistors and capacitors on the fucking control board in the FICM? There is gonna be so many of these fucked up, it's not even funny. And I'm not cutting down the tech you are talking about, I am merely commenting that electrical failures especially on a programmable control unit such as a FICM are sometimes very difficult to see with the naked eye. And, seeing this repair in the TSB... How does one explain the guys on the powerstroke monkeyhouse soldering a few resistors back to the main control board and having 48.5V MPWR? WITHOUT changing the step-up transformer? The ONE FICM I took apart merely out of curiosity before this TSB came out smelled like a fuckin TV/home stereo store after a power surge. All burnt electronics. Or failing that, a burned up field coil on an AC compressor. I don't think that there was enough real-world research done on this to make it an affective repair. Yes, I realize that likely this was being tested on FICMs that had been warranty returns as failures, but at the same time -- how many of these had a WEAK step-up transformer, and the resistor issues on the main control board? (As an aside, I do not know how much merit there is to soldering the resistors, but there was a member on here that tried it and said it worked) Maybe there was enough contact on those suspect resistors for the NEW step up transformer to work at 48v, but for how long? I dunno...I don't like where this is going...

Gotcha beat here buddy! I need two fingers to count the "good used" screens

^^^ I was gonna post that last night but through my alcohol induced haze i was having trouble getting it pieced together in the posting window.