jimmy57

What's up with broken cranks? I haven't seen that in years. Chevy MD trucks with 366 and 427 engines in the 70's and early eighties had a bit of a pattenr failure of breaking cranks and nothing since that I have been aware of?

No good deed goes unpunished.

according to jasper their remans are the best and have all the best updates! I just had a rep tell me the other day they are doing 6.7 remans now and they have figured out all the issues and problems with the valves etc He had fancy videos on his ipad that proved it I bet PowerstrokeHelp.com is consulting with Jasper. You know he has 6.7 videos out now.......................

A few of the cities around me use F650/750 gassers because they can do the gaseous fuel kits and burn the methane off the landfills. Ford jumped on that since they were in a place to do it. These are their roadside limb and loose trash trucks with a flatbed and a hydraulic boom and claw. The trucks they used before were IH 4200 low spec VT365. I bet the V10 is a power house compared to the IH with low suds 6.0's.

If they think that a 440HP/860tq 6.7 in a 450 towing 31,200 is OK then I suppose a 260HP/750 Tq (just making up MD truck like figures here) in a 26K GVW truck is within reason.

Is the trans going to be a 6R1720 now? Those are serious numbers. Curious to see what else is chnaged besides turbo. I see the 450 tow number betters the Ram by over 1000 pounds.

If the bearing gets inadequate oil supply tangs on bearings might a few revolution difference. The cursh of the shells by the cap is what holds bearings. The tangs were done so people assembling engines had built-in location gauge. WIth machine assembly or hand assembly with newer tools they leave the tang out and gain a bit of strength for the powdered metal fractured cap rods, Fractured cap does not lend itself to tang grooves. I didn't make this crap up. This was the background info 20+ years ago I got when working as trainer and tech support for a car manufacturer. The tangs went away before fractured cap rods were introduced on their engines. It was odd as they had tangs on mains but not on rods. The mains were selective sized based on crank finish and block finish and as a result the mains were laid in by humans. Rods were robotic assembly. I also hate engine start up with immediate high idle. I wonder if it is as bad as we think it is. The load on rods and mains may not be much different at all between 700 and 1200 RPM. The oil pump time to pressure may be related to rotations and not to time so the engine may be turning the same turns before bearings get oil regardless of the higher idle start. It still bugs me. 7.3 and 6.0 certainly had time to for oil pump to get head start.

FOMOCO at this point knows that biodiesel is unaviodable. If they still use tanks that delam then they now "Own fuel tank delamination" to borrow from their ad playbook. How hard or expensive is it to do what the others do and use plastic tank with a metal skid plate to keep the large capacity tank from sagging?

Is it SP ATF or did a skunk piss in their barrel of lift oil? I don't know how you'd tell which it is.

I had a 2004 F150 2WD with this really odd noise on slow turns at times and an ocasional screech when going 40-50 MPH. Got the noise to occur and determined RH side. I found this faint free travel on RH front hub and disassembled. Decided worn but not rumbling wheel bearing and upon pressing it out realized it has been spinning inside hub. New one on me. Has anyone else seen this before?

I got a really nice palm-sized video camera 4 years ago. I got a cell phone with an equivalent vid cam but a bigger viewfinder (phone screen) 3 years ago. Vid cam has bad batteries since it hasn't been used in 3 years........

I have seen several of that series re-powered with the 4BT cummins 4 cylinder. Those engines were used by loads of bread and potato chip fleets to repower their Ford and Chevy framed aluminum parcel vans (those companies are notorious skinflints that run those units till the metal crumbles). Someoen was producing bell housing adapters and such. The winner I worked on was a 34 foot holiday rambler with a Chevy chassis (worked at Chevy dealer 77-79, 81-83) repowered from big block to an Isuzu non -turbo 6 cylinder. It was backed by the original TH400. Stepping on the go pedal was more akin to throwing kibble to squirrels running on a treadmill. Due to the TH400 steep reverse ratio the thing wouldn't back up a slight grade. Never built enough power to reach stall speed.

I had a new 86 Bronco II XLT and left it at my local dealer (I worked at an BMW-Volvo dealer) for the 4th time to get trim issue around sunroof and a repeateable misfire at moderate load checked out. I passed by the dealer Saturday afternoon and saw it parked in body shop lot with damage to front end. I turned in and drove around to the open parking area and then saw it was crunched in the back also. On Monday an insurance adjuster called me to talk about the accident and to get my story. I told him I was not in vehicle and was not in possession. He got really quiet but did answer my questions as to where and when accident occurred. 60 miles from dealer at 2:20 AM on Sat morning, 4 occupants. I didn't get a call from the dealer until Wednesday. They took responsibility and did fire the service advisor that had taken it.He was warned when he was caught doing this before. The dealer took responsibility for repairs but their work was awful! The overspray and obvious body filler grind marks and the Ranger fender badge with overspray showed it was not a good job. I did get satisfaction. I walked in and spoke with the truck sales mgr I bought it from (his wife had a Datsun Z I had worked on for years). He looked at it, said nothing, and then asked me to wait in his office. 15 minutes later the dealer owner walked in and was apologetic and said they would replace my Bronco and suggested the 87 model Eddie Bauer units they had would make a nice replacement. I got an EB model and there was no charge for me and they substituted the 87 on the loan for my 86 and paid three payments to make up for the 45 days I was without. That dealer needs to look up what "making the plaintiff whole" means. The cost of doing that is increasing every day in this indefensible situation.

Those 250's REALLY want HydroBoost don't they?

I know I don't want to be around when somebody reaches bare-handed into their cleaning vat!

I like the Plasma spray cylinder refacing. Also known as, "Oh shit! These SOB's are dying left and right and screwing up cylinder walls. We'll run out of buildable cores if we don't find a away to save some of those in the scrap pile"

For the REAL serious question here: How many Tim Horton's are still closed?

"Gonna be 80 F Sunday here in NC :cool:" In the Carolinas a winter front is the string thong version.

The Ram's radiator won't leak when it gets 50K miles on it either.

Towing with higher tuner setting will fail a studded OE head gasket.

GO to a corporate store, not an authorized dealer, and tell them you want to check the discount the Ford FAN gives you. For AT&T it is 73669 or 73637. Take a business card in case they want some indication that you have Ford affiliation.

Check base engine oil pressure cold. I have not seen 6.0 repeat oil coolers for this but I have repaired some plate n fin oil cooler fails for super high oil pressure on other makes.

The tappets in the 6.4, 6.0. 7.3, and 6.9 are the same as Olds diesel 5.7 and GM 6.2 and 6.5 diesel. Component sourcing and bidding makes for some damned strange bedfellows. This is according to part catalog from Sealed Power/Federal Mogul. They could be the OEM supplier of the tappets for all we know. Those kind of things in an engine are like roller bearings, you come up with an engineering spec and find an exisiting component that meets or exceeds it and then spec the place it fits. Damn! they could have grabbed some from a big block Chevy or a VW and I'd feel better.

I think the person that sent the shadow student to you was far more wise than we give credit. If some young person expresses interest in medical field profession and the hospital slots are taken then where is the next best place to see blood? If he hangs out in an automotive shop somebody's going to bleed.

What sleeping meds? I use 2/3rds of a 10 mg generic Ambien (zolpidem) when I have one of those brain won't quit spells and it knocks me out and I sleep GREAT. Usually 2 nights and my sleep rhythm returns. I have not had any side effects from using it. 5 mg wouldn't do it some nights. Cutting a 1/3rd off means the price is reasonable since it stretches them out.