Aaron

I always got along pretty well with him also.

So...people say that when a bird shits on you, it's good luck. I beg to differ. I am standing outside my stall, drinking my coffee. Bird shits down my left arm, and right into my fresh hot coffee, with about 2 sips out of it. So I shit-can the coffee. Not long after that, my merciless air ratchet grabs a seized fastener and bashes up my knuckles. Not long after that, that same air ratchet has apparently developed some sort of burr on it's end, which then proceeds to slice the end of my right middle finger open. While all of this is going on (I'm doing coolers on a 6.0 on this job) the couple of trips down to the floor, to loosen the petcock for the rad, ditch the drain plug, etc. I have noticed a small sharp pain coming from what I thought was a zit on my lower back. I continued to ignore this. So I get the coolers all done. I get to the point of putting the turbocharger back on, and the pipe won't line up to the inlet side of the exhaust side of the turbo. So I fuck about with it for about 15 minutes, and then after getting frustrated, say fuck it, I'll just drop down underneath and loosen 'er off at the manifold and the EGR cooler, and get everything aligned properly and she's all gravy! Not so much. I get underneath, (pain in the lower back from the apparent zit, ignore it again) and immediately proceed to round off the lower of the two bolts in the LH exhaust manifold to up-pipe. After fixing that up, I get on the top one, with my 3/8 gun between the frame and body (F-550). I got 'er wedged up in there pretty good. I sneeze, whack my head on the front crossmember of the frame, and after wiping my nose with my hand real quick, look up just in time to see my 3/8 mac impact gun headed directly towards my nose. So now I've got a nosebleed, and I can't fuckin see what I'm doing. I climb out from under the truck, grab a rag, stop my nose, then wipe my forehead. There's a chunk of tool steel in the rag. So, it's getting late in the day, I do a couple other fairly problem free jobs, go home. I get home, sit on the couch, an my apparent zit is now about 3" in diameter, and throbbing. Go to walk in clinic. Sit there for three hours. Told to go to ER, immediately, before that bursts. It's a CYST. The problem herein lies -- I have fairly intrusive SPINE surgery scheduled for WEDNESDAY....which ain't gonna happen now since about 3mm from the surgery site there's a large open cyst with a staph bacterial infection. Go to ER, get there about 10pm. Got home at 6am Saturday. It's been a shitty week. Sunday started off with a tree laying on my house and punching several holes through the roof. I better go check my lottery ticket....

Holy shit, I haven't heard the name Duckman in FOREVER... I used to watch that show, ages and ages ago. Is it still on anywhere?

I like checking for fuel at the valve on the fuel cooler, as well. Being as how this is on the RETURN side of the fuel system, it paints a picture for the technician that the fuel is making it through the whole fuel system.

Does it have the PTO bundle near the parkng brake?

From what I heard he isn't teaching for Ford anymore, at all.

Was a call to our dealership today to move the foreman's training for lack of instructor. Seems to me he was expecting it, from what he told us in March.

Had one with 42 degrees spread on ECT/EOT this week -- no gauge concerns. Wrench lamp on.

I'm thinkin R&R 7000 assembly is gonna be required...

Will have pics up tonight

Haven't yet, think ours just sold, so the likelihood of me driving one is slim to fuck all. They are way too quiet, i can tell you that.

Thanks Gym! I couldn't find the damn thing.

Pretengineer?

Nope, different than that.

Service Bulletin, kinda like a Warranty bulletin? Maybe you guys number/call them differently on FMCdealer.

Ontario guys should maybe note that a little birdie told me that Dave Young won't be teaching the diesel class here.

DRAG RACING And as of late, fixing the tornado damage to my house.

More close up photos of drag car please

Hey Keith -- your signature is 384 characters, including spaces. I'm jealous.

Hey my VM's messed up Larry, was it you that called me from the 313 number on thursday? I think my parts manager found what we were looking for, and I think he's got it ordered up for me.

How much for a case, and is it DPF safe?

Is there a specific teacher for the French class in Canada, or is there a bi-lingual teacher up here?

I have done quite a few mass air flow sensors on 08's for excessive regeneration, usually the KOEO MAF pid is all over the place, way way high, or way way low, when compared to a known good unit.

One I just did, the MGP and the PVT (tied into the degas hose) fuckin' near went up TOGETHER.... I had to PRY the heads off the block once I had all the bolts out, and the gaskets were burned to the head and block.

Last time I got 8 recordings of the vehicle in question at a stop light, or likely in the parking lot before it even left our shop. LOL.