cbriggs

Thats a whole other problem with us as well.....Im not even going to start.

I am doing a cab off on an 05 s-d right now, i took notes on the whole deal while i removed it. I'll post when i get time to edit it.

Sweet, I want a heated steering wheel!!!!

I wonder if an oil sample (from the lp) would show aeration if pickup was restricted?

I beleive it de-rates engine 25 hp, so yes it will affect performance.

I see alot that are "weaping" as you say. I use my better judgment on these, if there are oil drips hanging off the starter or rear cover, then they warrant replacement. The only ones i have seen leak mid seal area have had some form of porrus casting or machining marks. Most i see are sneaking oil around the t- joints, then it tracks back in the outside of the seals grooves. Hot tips: like Aaron said, clean-clean-clean, use sealer, and cab off. Im doing a set right now. 10-11 hrs turn around with cab off.

Management claims our parts dept makes no money, when we had a parts guy, we were in the red about the equivalent of his wage. I dont know how they "charge" the bills (utilities)to our parts dept, but i know parts and service pay all the bills, to make sales #s look better. Right now we have no parts guy, and they claim to barely be breaking even?? I think they need to seriously change something, but what? My whole argument is, the parts dept should at least be willing and able to help the service dept maintain and improve its efficiency.

I have noticed that a leaking stc fitting will drain the hp reservoir, or some of the hp system anyways, usually a leaking stc will result in base oil pressure not building until right before startup. Will usually be a large leak though to cause that.

Crap, the local lordco has 2 million inventory, i think the napa has 1 mil or close. We dont do nearly the volume they do, but i think 100k is absolutely a joke. I wonder if thats a # ford came out with 10 years ago or so. Maybe they need to revise?

22s and 24s break pretty easy when they slide into a curb too!!

Ya, i was just talking to our service/ parts manager after work tonight. She is in shit cuz our inventory is 160k, owner and gm want it below 100k. 100k? are they f**king joking? We have that in diesel parts, now going on 3 diesel engines on warranty, well need to stock all that as well?

See lots of them lately. Last one was an 07 with 30k, worst leaking one ive seen yet. Im starting to think that the engine factory had a problem with properly siliconing the t- joints. Got one tomorow on an 05 with 25k.

Sweet, Thanks again.

Hey Thanks Larry, The #s are as follows: bosch 0 460 424 282 VE4 12F1100L954 504063450 2852046 011 586 699128 1027370

The initial air test is a v-c on test. Only if leak cannot be pinpointed (to the stc or either bank) then a v-c off test is performed.

Is anybody familair with the specs and procedure to set the injection timing on one of these.Do i need and special tools? It has a bosch rotary injection pump. The pump has come loose and turned all the way retarded, and is leaking oil. I will be replaceing the pump to engine gasket and then will need to reset timing.

Swapped the malibu engine yesterday. Ended up being a long block swap insead of just a used (complete)engine re & re. The engine we got was out of a pontiac and everything was different, even the timing cover. Ended up taking 10 hours, still a pretty easy job.

No dlc? Not possible. How would we diag it?

3.1 with terrible rod knock.

I see toyota just recalled a bunch of tundras for excessive frame rusting? Deja vu of 80s toy pickups?

I had an 04 6.0 in today for the weirdest shit ever. Customers concern was: after driving for 1/2 hour or so truck coughs, sputters, smokes badly, wont rev over 2500 rpm and backfires. So i drive truck around for an hour or so, never misses a beat. Has several egr codes, but owner says he has egr blocked off so ignore egr codes.( owner is a hd mechanic at the commercial transport shop in town ) Only thing i noted on test drive was a mildly sticking vgt, and that it will easily bark out the intake when let off the throttle on hard accel (a bit worse than normal). So i called the guy,( i kind of know him, hes a pretty good c-t mechanic) to see if he was interpreting turbo bark as a "backfire". he says no , it backfires out the exhaust, definatly, if it did it , i would know. After phone call i thought i would try it once more, well, it did it. Even in neutral outside, floorboard the accellerator , rpm maxes out at 2500, bounces up and down from 2000 to 2500 like a gas engine on the rev limiter, smoke badly ( i thought fire dept may show up),bark out he intake (turbo bark) and backfire, yes , backfire out the exhaust, shoots smoke and suit 20 feet out the taipipe.( every 3 to 5 second if held on the floor).Smoke is very heavy white unburnt fuel smoke. I made several recordings of event, tryed taking command of everything i could think of to stabilize, as all sensors and outputs go crazy when its happening. I checked everthing, fuel quality and pressure good,no exhaust gas in fuel rails, customer has removed and cleaned tank, replaced pump and filters. No codes except egr codes p0401,one i forgot & p0488. I tried a known good test ficm. Nothing i did made any diffence. Then as i looked at codes again i thought, hmmmm, p0488 is egr tp, not valve related. I monitored pids for egr tp, and there it was. Egr tp was flatlined at .3v, command would creepup to 70% at around 2500 rpm, trying to create egr flow,which was not possible as cooler is blocked, egr tp was not increasing so pcm kept closing it and choking the engine. I removed the throttle plate from the shaft and tried it again, presto, concern resolved. Lesson i learned, never overlook and trouble code. I never thought a diesel would backfire, like that, and from such a stupid little thing causing it. Customer was extatic, as he nearly ordered a $1600 pcm trying to fix it himself.

never had anything in my bay long enough to remeber this week. Did 3 egr cooler oil cooler jobs in a day and a half, back to back. 2 ficms, an engine on an 06; low compression in 3 holes, a rh turbo feed pipe and thermostats on a 6.4l. Gnarly week. Today was blessed with one of the craziest driveability concerns on a 6.0l ive ever seen.(see my post in 6.0l forum). Tommorow im puting an engine in a 97 malibu for a friend of mine. oh joy.

I agree with Kieth as well. If i screw up my story and get labour bounced thats one thing. But when very commonly performed labour ops are getting kicked with the excuse "rarely claimed labour op" , when we all know thats crap, i take offence to it. Do they thing were stupid? Or do they have a set of dice with kickback reasons on it.... lets give this one a roll.....

Yeah, but who can afford a 30 - 40 000 dissposable car or a 50 - 70 000 dissposable truck. Quote: I always new the day was coming for these poor diesel customers that they would have to cough up these huge expenses. Allot of them were so blind. I'm seeing this too Dwayne, feel bad for the guys sometimes, but what can we do? other than get it back running. I forsee swapping in alot of used engines. We just found an 07 with 60k for around 5000 from a good wrecker, let alone the shady ones. Thats close to the price of a head gasket cooler job. Customers will probably see better value in hanging an engine with less than half the kms for similar price.

Oh yeah, rads slipped my mind. huh. Too much 6.0 lately.