jimmy57

The last I did anything to had a scribe line from manufacture to mark pump flange to cover or block where it inserts. Have you clean the pump body or block yet where you could see any markings like that?

So to get this back on topic: How much water does one add to the rod powder to make a powdered metal rod?

When I was at the fair I picked up a brochure on the '11 SD's and it listed the fifth wheel hitch as being industry first factory option. I agree about the dually fenders. They look cheesy on an otherwise attractive truck. The dually fenders look like the ones they used to sell with the make-a-dually kits that were popular in the past.

Did he run out of power or did the truck shut down because it ran low on Diesel Exhaust Fluid? Looks like an F350 with the wide front end option (unless wide front end is std on '11 F350 DRW 4X4).

Went to the TX state fair and looked over the SD's with the new engines. 6.7 looks to have an advantage over 6.0/6.4. Some of the plumbing looks complicated but maybe a tad less complicated than 6.4. Turbo replacement will be tougher. I was surprised at the small diameter of the exhaust elbows connecting the exh manifolds to turbine housing. The cutaway truck shows the DEF tank to have several items mounted on it. I assume a heater, a fluid type sensor, and a fluid level sensor. I also looked at the new 3/4 and 1 ton dodges and they did finally produce a REAL crew cab with an 8 foot bed. The new interior looks nice but I did notice that the Dodge version of a leather seat has almost no leather on it. Side bolsters and front of lower cushion is Pleather. 6.2 has much wider cylinder heads than the mod motors (I guess this is more or less a mod motor big brother) but nothing scary under the hood from what I could see.

The blue oval does have a bit of "Bling" to it. The Europeans have been getting into the oversize emblems and now Fomoco seems to have picked up on it. The HUGE grille and its forward placement sort of needs a huge emblem to be balanced.

I plan a visit to TX state fair with a roll of pennies. I'll toss 'em under the hood and see if any find their way to the ground.... The styling is sharp and the new vents look nice. As a person who tows tractors and hay in some hilly terrain I LOVE the selectshift feature. Ford truck guys do listen.

Volvo and Renault/Mack are the buddies, Volvo AB and Saab-Scania AB are not friendly as a result of failed offers of purchase over the years. Scania trucks are highly regarded in ,ost of the world but never had any successful efforts over here in North America. I guess they are like MAN, DAF, and Mercedes. The Euro trucks that sell over here are Americanized versions.

TTY bolts work well with automated equipment as high torque measurements with current technology is not accurate. Torque to a low measured torque is accurate and rotation through a prescribed number of degrees is accurate also. Every TTY bolted high compression engine I have experience with has higher head gasket failures. The ones that use heavier bolts and torque plus one angle are not in this group, only the multi angle torque step ones that have non-reuseable head bolts. My bet is the TTY bolts are a manufacuring ease and cost issue. I'm with Aaron on this, ARP studs hold head gaskets intact on a bunch of modded motors. Since the stock bolts on these seem to have so little margin for failures NOT caused by tuners (like sticking vanes on turbo), then why not use them When customer wants to pay?

Did anybody REALLY think the 6.4 was going force you to retire from too little need for repairs?

Can you imagine how strong the paint smell must be at the rebuild plant for 6.0's? THAT much paint on an engine HAS to mean a lot of paint fumes!

Sounds like a simple case of an acronym problem. The WTF module is actually a WIF module.

I agree the 04 up coolers are much more efficient. The exhausr is much cooler when the breeze blows over exhaust as truck is being towed to shop after the cooler injects WAY too much coolant into exhaust. Sorry for the cynicism. Cynicism, no, just reality.

This article seems to be wrong now. It mentions the deal where GM and Chrysler were to merge. That deal has been off for weeks. Now Fiat is the one making the deal for Chrysler assets and a news report I saw on one of the cable news channels listed Jeep as one of the prizes of the deal. When GM was the suitor for Chrysler their expected intentions were to take Chrysler apart and sell some of the units to offset the price they were to pay.

I have a dog I named Electricity. He is always going places he doesn't belong and finds a new way to get out almost every day.....

No urea in tank = no radio and no A/C That would get a trip to the dealer!!

I'm not too sure about the coolants but every manufacturer's time guide I have ever worked under for damn sure has bittering agent in it! I go look up what they say is the time for a job and in most cases I immediately have a bitter taste in my mouth. Some of the labor op times have suppositories in them, I see those times and my anus feels like something just got stuffed in it.

In my just ended career (lay offs....) I saw a 6.7 mule at the AZ proving grounds several months back. It's not cool to snoop at an engineering center but I caught a funky front end SD with the hood up and walked slowly by and saw enough to know it was not anything sourced from IH. So they have been sorting these out for a while. Not enough of a look to see what serviceability it might have compared to the IH motors. I wanted to look under it to see if the transmission was different but I would have to fake a fainting to spell to have a good reason to be laying on the ground near one of those mules. Maybe my snooping got me laid off.......

Why would Ford bring the new 4.4 Diesel into the market with fuel prices low and rebates at all time highs? They can start the 4.4 production later when market has the money in it to pay for the product at a profit making price. Market research still has domestic buyers in the light duty segment suffering from dislike for the handling of diesel fuel. I also would say that with the recent increase in MPG numbers for the gas 1/2 tons, diesel MPG with emissions may not be too much better and then the buyer has HUGE increase in operating costs for maintenance and urea additive if they go that way (and they almost certainly will). I would imagine the diesels from GM and Dodge may be pushed back too.

Those Senators that are so vocal about people giving up wages and benefits better take a long look at their own situations. Our government is running in the red and if they are so quick to say that people should go with little insurance and a reduced standard of living then let it start inside the beltway. I am no huge fan of unions but it strikes me as odd that banking can get help and car makers can't. Savings and loans cost us a LOT of money a while back when we bailed them out. Mopar got help and paid it back with interest. If union busting is not the hidden agenda then what is?

Diesels have rapid, high cylinder pressure pulses when combustion occurs. These pulses cause a pressure wave in coolant jacket around cylinder. The pressure wave can make untreated coolant develop a momentary gas bubble on outer surface of cylinder and the re-fill of the that gas bubble by liquid erodes the metal and if left unchecked will make a pinhole allowing coolant into cylinder. All diesel engines suffer from this with parent bore (cylinder bored in block casting instead of a cylinder that is serviced separate from block as on large commercial diesel engines) engines having a lowered tendency to do this. Correct coolant with the chemicals that inhibit the gas bubble from forming stop this. The Gold coolant has the correct chemicals and pH. Green does not. Mixed green and gold kills the effectiveness of the gold coolant. Needs to be flushed and refilled with Gold. The previous way of handling coolant treatment was the use of green coolant with an additive added. The additive had to be preiodically replenished. The coolant needed to be tested with a test strip periodically. Too much fuss and it rarely was done. Gold changed at 5 year interval is WAY easier and safer. Commercial diesel engines that have the insert cylinders have long had coolant conditioner filters that have a dissolving solid chemial agent that keeps the chemical balance correct in coolant. In the last few years these have transitioned over to the gold or another diesel specific long-life coolant to avoid all the cooling system fuss and worry.

Direct injection has a HUGE benefit in cold start emissions. Since the fuel is sprayed into chamber and multiple spark events per combustion can be used, there is very little enrichment needed. A cold engine still only needs 14.7:1 +/- fuel mixture but when it is injected upstream a lot of it condenses onto surfaces prior to spark and you must give extra fuel to end up with 14.7:1. The extra fuel makes emissions HIGH on cold starts. Pushrod motors allow cylinder de-activation hardware to be used, something very hard to package on an OHC engine.

You guys have very little pariotism or maybe I should tone that down and say very little confidence in our country, its people, and our system of government that has served us so well for over 200 years. I do believe that a person of color, albeit diluted toned down color, being elected president is a milestone. I also believe that the poor-mouthing is very much akin to the thing old-timers of most every generation have said about those 2-3 generations behind, i.e., "those kids will never amount to anything and we're all going down when it's their time to run this country!" I am not aligned with either party completely. Republicans tend toward meanness and bigotry while claiming Godliness and Democarats tend toward a bit looser reins on things that matter to me. If we get gov't out of our lives to the extent that some Red guys espouse then we will all have to start paving our own little section of assigned highways ourselves while the Blue guys might have the gov't bringing us breakfast in bed at the expense of them dirty filthy rich guys. Neither perfect, neither totally wrong. I have hope for the USA and the world that things will improve and we will have an up cycle until we have the next doom and gloom down cycle. I'm getting dizzy here so I'm stepping down off my soapbox. You know, NO candidate said a damn thing about better radiators in 6.4's or increased strength head bolts for 6.0's.

Fel-Pro makes them and they work. I do not have P/N as I haven't used them in a while. Anyone have a long lasting fix for leaking up-pipes on 7.3's ? An accordion style pipe a la 6.0 would probably stop the 75K mile leaks from pipe moving in and out of ring seal but that isn't available anywhere.

after sample listen I am left with the impresion that it is a commercial broadcast with no entertainment or educational interruptions.....