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I have been using ta-31 for all of it, since the first bed plate I did. I run a very fine bead on the bed plate, on the inside of the press in place seal. Then a very fine wipe in the little end pockets where the endbulbs of the seal fit. If the quantity is right, a small amount will ooze out at the ends of the bedplate seal but not push them out.Then I put the front and rear covers on with more silicone at the t joints, so it can all blend with the fresh silicone from the bed plate. The trick is to run the sealer down the inside of the bedplate seals, not the outside. I have redone a 6.4 that was done at another dealer. They ran the sealer beads down the outside of the bedplate seals, the oil could still leak into the bedplate seal grooves, and then snuck out at the rear t joints and down over the starter.

Quote: I noticed this in past years when photographing 6 Liter blocks at the bed plate. Ya no doubt. Every bedplate reseal I have ever done has had some sort of porosity or machining problem cause the leak. I have been applying sealer since the first one I did, and have never seen one even moist that I have sealed.

Sweet, good find. The power balance on these trucks seems to be very sensitive. I have often had it flag wrong or extra cylinders as well. One that comes to memory was a truck with a seized exhaust valve on the rh bank, and broken rocker/ pushrod. The power balance was flagging another cylinder on the same bank, which ended up being the next cylinder to fire on that bank. I figued it was inhaling (some of) the spent gasses from the cylinder with no exhasut valve operation.

Yes. A crack will create a leak, and in turn burn the valve.

I've got a bend pack 12k clear overhead (has floor bump for cables). Arm extensions arent removeable. I have tried without success to lift a regular cab before, but it was a wide frame (f-350) truck. The f-550 with the narrow frame I was just able to get the arms to go past the frame. I wasnt able to use the lift pads on the hoist, but used 6x6 blocks sitting on the hoist arms.

Quote: parts guys who aren't so up to speed I feel your pain Mike. Ours has to look up a 5.4l or 6l oil filter every time. Has been here almost a year. (we cant figure out why?)

07 f-550 svc truck. 32,000kms, 1200hrs. In service aug 06. Headgaskets couldn't take 40 psi boost from the worst seized vgt I've ever seen. Kept topping up coolant until the egr cooler was full flow out the tailpipe. Regular cab, what a bitch to lift the cab when its that short.

Funny thing is, the headset that came with the engine still had headgaskets in it, not sure what they used in the engine?

4th gear is direct, couples the input shaft to the main shaft right at the front of the trans, if input shaft moves around at all, it will pop the shift collar back. Make sure it hasnt damaged the input shaft bearing on the new trans, also there is a small pilot bearing between the input shaft and mainshaft.

Not totally related, but I put a Reviva engine (6.ol) in an 03 f-550 a while ago, It came with a victor reinz headset. Not sure about the quality of the head gaskets, but the rest of the kit was amazing. Had every single oring, gasket and seal for that motor, some in duplicate for model year changes.

Yeah, you Wont be bothered much by the message board at all!

Holy fack. All I can say is wow!!

There used to be an ssm, or maybe it was a broadcast message, about doing exactly what you did.

I have seen numerous electrical shorts caused by the harness chaffing on the edges of the core support, near the front inside corners of the fender liners. Can usually see in there, but need to pull the fender liner to repair.

Have an 08 f-550 finning service truck in 2 of my bays right now.(with crane, vmac etc) Truck is too heavy to lift. Fuel has severe water contamination.Top fual bowl is corroded all to hell, and full of shiny metal filings.Has cylinder 8 missfire. Fuel trims ranging from +19 to -16. Getting pump and injectors etc, re and re and clean both tanks, flush lines, etc. quoted 39.5 hrs at 25% over our door rate, and it got approved in about 3 hours.(retail, obviously)

Is Walter in Revy or Salmon arm? they run two stores. Revy is an hour and a half away, but thru the rogers pass. Apparantly they dont pay very well, top guy (10+ years) is around $26/hr. Nice new store in revy though. Not really into moving at the moment if I can help it.

Yep, possibly more than I will (hopefully) ever need again.

I have read thru the bc labour act, and I'm pretty sure it is illegal, but they dont make alot of mention of flat rate or peice work in their literature. I'm just waiting to see what happens. In reading the labour act I found that they dont pay us holiday pay correctly either. Funny you should mention Jim, I got a job posting emailed to me from some recruitng firm out of Edmonton, for a job listing in slave lake. Didnt have many specifics, but sure sounded like it was at SL Ford. I dont particularily want to move, might have to go back to the indy world....

We finally have this thing licked. Ended up being a bad abs module. Put an old level abs/hcu in it that we have had in stock since 2009. The abs module changes up 3 times. Not sure if its related, but a 3rd changeup module was installed and actually made the concern worse. The one we put in now was an original part # and it has fixed it. On a side note, and abs/hcu assy is worth $280 retail, and abs module seperatly is $700 ish dollars.

Quote: I suspect the windstar was actually misfiring and powerbalance wasn't picking it up. Either that or RFI but I've never seen a coil pack cause RFI I had an escape a few weeks ago with a coil causing so much rfi that it was causing the IC to shut down and restart while driving.

Even if the steel came from the tank or any outside source, how the f**k do they suppose it got thru 2 fuel filters.

Quote: However with the way the system works it drives the employees to focus on looking out for themselves and not the customer. If a dealership was willing to take care of their techs/employees, pay them a rightful wage for their skill, and support them in day to day operations then you would see a great increase in customer satisfaction. With that said we cant blame just the dealers, alot of times as we all know ford gets us by the balls too.... Thats exactly how I'm beginning to feel. We were just informed today that we will not be getting paid for any ro's until the customer or ford have paid the dealer. Talk about a no lose situation for the dealer.

Huh, I've never tried that.

I had one of these as well, P006b, p2263 and p2563. All ok od, but codes in cm. FF showed iat at -35`c and road speed 75 to 110 km/hr for all codes, I figured maybe the ebp froze up?

Quote: I would have loved to see used car sell a tuned catless 6.0 to some unsuspecting customer but I suppose I just care to much. Ours does it all the time, Our general/ sales mgr has a hardon for lifted trucks, stocks the lot with all this crap lifted stuff from all over, and then sells esp on them. Then when we go for prior approval and they ask if its modified.....