jimmy57

Thanks. I have yet another that gets the airbag system. Long springs make for good ride but there is big height drop and resulting headlight aim issues when a 4K pin weight trailer is carried. The switch panel is down low and fixed brightness seems to not be bothersome to the owners.

Crown wheel and pinion. Everyone in the Queen's realm knows that is what the propeller shaft drives on a lorrie in order to get the wheels to rotate.

Obviously there is somewhere that you're supposed to spray white lithium grease. It has to need some new lithium ions.

Why does my criminally deranged mind (from working on too many broke vehicles and too many of those 6 liters) see duct tape with cats printed on it when I read your post?

Every battery that ever exploded on or near me had electrolyte low to below plates. Looks like that one was the same. I always thought the ones that blew up when key was turned to start position were the gnarliest. Those like to blow the 4 sides of battery open.

On the FIrestone kit the bulb socket has two free wires. You splice to ground for compressor switch (uses sw to ground relay) and connect to power for dash illumination. This kit has a fuse holder that is constant power connected. With no power needed at switch there is no option to connect to power at switch and fuse it to accessory power. I think this one is getting key on gauge lighting. I like the airlift compressor kit with its low pressure limit switch but I have had Air Lift frame brackets bend.

I have a 2011 F350 that I will install load leveler Firestone airbags with compressor kit. The truck does not have upfitter switch set and that is where I sourced illumination power on the only other 2011-> SD I installed one of these systems on. Where is another safe place to tap into? I'm not sure the illumination signal wire is capable of the current for a regular bulb that the air pressure gauge in these kits use. My plan B is parking/tail light circuit and not worrying about dimming since the gauge will be out of sight when driving.

Whenever I read or hear "cab off restoration" I think a 6.0 is getting head gaskets/EGR cooler/oil cooler. It takes a moment to picture a classic car body on a rotisserie with a rolling frame sitting nearby

That 6.4 drank coolant as an attempt at yet another way for a 6.4 to commit catastrophic suicide. The problem is 6.4s don't have kidneys and livers to be fatally damaged as with humans, dogs, cats, etc.

I miss TC drain plugs. If "remove torque converter" is ever spoken I immediately picture spilled red fluid in my mind.

I'm not sure there is a good place to put a 65000 pound capacity parking pawl and drum in an Allison. Then there would be the OMG linkage capable of pulling the pawl out of drum teeth when it is parked and loaded in a hilly situation.

At that point they become WTFCs instead of DTCs

I have used OE spectrums on some Euro models that have airbag over shocks or electric damping control. I have used them for 6 or more years, probably 15 sets and never had any come back needing another set. I have a Volvo with electric dampers and I drive it hard. The Monroe OE spectrums on it are fine after 50K miles. Monroe/Tenneco was the OE supplier for the Volvo electric damper control struts. I have used aftermarket strut mounts and haven't had great service from those. I know of sets put on cars where OE had gone 120K and the aftermarket MOOG and other brand names of usual OE equivalent quality didn't go 40K. Too much swappo-changeo crap goes on in the parts biz where the part in the brand name box is made by who the hell knows. On my family vehicles I purposely choose lesser parts sometimes. I have some ragged crap in my family and if it goes 285K on OE cooling fans there ain't no way it's going to last another 285K so I will get the TYC fan assembly for $100 instead of the OE for $325.

Thanks. Overextended I've seen but I wasn't sure if you guys were seeing something else odd on these multiple failure engines. 6.0's still are finding new ways to kill themselves. I keep waiting on one to start up by itself and go park on a train track so a train wipes it out.

What is the deal with the tstats? Visibly broken? Grit on the wax bulb shaft making them stick open (closed)? Not something I have dealt with yet.

I haven't paid any attention to Carfax reports in a long time. Would a Carfax show the repairs under warranty with what they are fed today?

Did it used to be "Canada Auto Repair" until they figured out they couldn't find the tools to work on anything? Safe to say no one with OCD works at this location.

I'm still a fan of Cascade( or other brand of automatic dishwasher soap). Soft water in my area and so many other things won't quit sudsing after many flushes so I can get onto a distilled water flush an then getting coolant in it and out of my bay.

I agree BIG time on RAM and SSD. I had to replace the drive on an ASUS touchscreen windows 10 laptop due to it being handled roughly (by me, already replaced the screen due to being dropped) and went with an SSD. It is another machine entirely. Not only does the start up time after all the apps(programs) were loaded stay at less than 40 seconds, but so many things go faster that I never thought hard drive had any bearing on. I bought a Sandisk 480 GB. You may find it much cheaper to get a lesser unit and upgrade the drive afterwards. The PC makers tend to put upgraded everything into units that get SSD and make them $500 more when the price difference for the drive is $40-60.

Just wait until they get the 3D metal printer shit invented. You'll be software downloading crank bearings. (I say this as a joke but who knows?)

I am not discounting some clever engineering found inside new engines but I expect to pull a valve cover or drop an oil pan and find some Briggs and Stratton tech inside any day. You know, plastic cam lobes, stamped steel gears, etc. The 3 cylinder Ecoboost is damned close with its Honda lawnmower engine plastic timing belt in oil............. ( yes, I should buy new mowers and quit farting around with old ones so that I know what is inside them)

3. I want the tool guy to arrive right after I break that often used tool instead of having left 45 min before it happened.

Happy New Year! I'll list my first wish for the new year, please add to the list 1. I want engineers to have quick connect fittings replacing their zippers. When they go to pee they will see just how bad of an idea those SOBs are.

For which the correct reply is, "Bless your heart"

I may pull the pan down and look. This truck has had a LOT of work done to it. It had a rocker arm tip "mushroom" retainer clip break and go through oil pump. The changes in the PIDs that I'm seeing could be totally normal for lack if injected fuel. The correlation between computed torque from CKP sensor may be what causes IPR signal and desired injected fuel quantity to fall. I have never had any reason to watch those same PIDs on a truck with low fuel pressure or plugged fuel filters. The behavior could be the same. The truck had a short period of flutter/misfire at highway speed and then it went to the smothers out(loses power?) behavior.