Matt Saunoras

Fixed my 11 F-550 with the DPF circuit code. Watching the DPF_V pid while wiggling the harness around showed my problem area. Right at the sensor connector the wires make a sharp 90° bend and loop around attaching to the bracket. One must have been broken right at the terminal(not sure exactly which circuit) and would open up when moved around. If you know what the DPF sensor connector looks like it's easy to tell it's not a common connector, the pins are gold plated too. I found some gold plated pins out of a 4.0sohc harness I had and they were a perfect fit. Spliced in my new pins, roadtest to put it through regen and all is well. Probably not a warrantable repair but I don't care. To change the harness in this thing would have been a nightmare

yep, raise the front about 4" and pull the downpipe out of the top

11 F550 with a P2452 and a warranty history showing a DPF pressure sensor replaced at another dealer 2 weeks ago. This thing has a belt driven compressor and what appears to be a bunch of smashed harnesses

finished up a 6.4 RH up-pipe on a 550 yesterday.

I'm asset too. 08 graduate. I'm 3 years in a dealer that is so small we can't pick and choose work, whatever driveability comes through the door goes to one of 2 guys. Not to mention we are the only dealership in a town plagued by independents. You can bet we get bad mouthed too for whatever reason.

I just put v79.00 in ours today. Seemed to program flawlessly (fingers crossed!)

I have no idea if the benefits outweigh the cost, if you didn't know it 15qts of full synthetic will run you over $100, more if you have to pay list price. My 6.0 is the only one i've ever known to have synthetic in it but I'm extremely anal about this engine.

I lay a fan up facing the turbo and it only takes about a half hour to get it cool enough to pull. Engine parts are different though. I've grabbed many oil rails with a rag before because they're still way too hot by the time I get to them. Don't you love laying up there sweating all over the engine?

Mike I'm doing 4,000 mile intervals right now, the oil is still fairly clean at this point with not a lot of soot accumulated in it, I feel this is probably best for injector life. 5k is the max I recommend for any oil under any condition. Regardless of the claims of extended synthetic oil change intervals a 6.0 high pressure system will shear a 40 weight oil down fast. The cold start performance with the truck is definitely noticable in the winter and you can absolutely tell the injectors are quieter.

I can tell you're young, so am I, put your time in and you'll get your respect eventually. I've seen a ten asset students come and go without ever fitting in yet it didn't take me long at all. It's all in your attitude. This business is tough, you can't get mad at the little things.

so an F-350 cab and chassis has a VGT turbo? That is very interesting. I fail to see how a reprogram is going to help a turbo noise. I've had a few cab and chassis turbos with the impeller worn out from contacting the housing.

Yeah the engineer I talked to insisted I don't start the vehicle because it will pretty quickly flood out the cylinders. I hadn't even thought of it but with larger injectors the fueling has to be cut way back at idle speeds.

throw some lucas in it too, just enough to get it traded in

After today I am seriously ready to say no to every saleen/roush piece of crap that rolls through the door. Sorry if this offends anyone but I've had it, if saleen can't make a vehicle that I can accurately diagnose then get it the hell out of here. I guarantee I'm not the first one to pull such a stupid stunt before and saleen confirmed it happens all the time. There is no technical support on the subject, no job aid on how to properly hook up IDS, and nothing warning of the instant reprogram of the PCM when IDS is finally acknowledging a PCM in the vehicle. Hotline tells me saleen isn't even affiliated with ford! I had technical hotline by my side the entire time when an 07 mustang came in with the radio backlight inop. The pinpoint test basically says to install as-built into the ACM so it's networked with the entire vehicle and illuminates when everything else does. That would be no problem IF it was a normal mustang. So hooking up IDS tells me that the PCM is blank, now I know this isn't true because the vehicle drove into the shop. So I contact hotline. IDS wants to start a new session with the VIN and PCM part number (or tear tag). Hotline offers up the part number and I found the tear tag. Hotline says both will work. So I punch the vin and part number in. If you can see where this is going that was a bad thing to do. Very bad thing to do. Instantly IDS starts reprogramming in the stock PCM calibration without prompt.... before I could even pull the DLC it's in the middle of an erase. So I inform hotline of what just happened and they can't understand why. Normally a pcm with an aftermarket calibration will have what's called a unique identifier encrypted as the pcm part number (engineering number) and the IDS will recognize this. We came to the conclusion that saleen never programmed this into the pcm and that's why IDS immediately thought it was blank. Then I come to think of all the 6.4 reprogramming issues we had with blanking PCMs on every single truck that came in for the 11B23 recall. Soon after later IDS calibrations were recognizing and correcting this problem instantly. And that's where the problem lies. So I was told to call saleen. I rarely lose my cool but seeing as how I'm out about 4 hours on this car that ran fine when it came in I almost lost it on the phone with tech support. This was after they casually tried to mention their $250 reprogram fee. Saleen will be taking care of my fuck up but not before getting an earfull (especially when he tried to bad mouth ford techs ) So the lesson here is, the safest thing to do with a saleen or roush anything is to unplug the PCM before even hooking up IDS. As I learned the only way to reprogram their calibration is to send the pcm to california. Why would I post this on a diesel forum? Please learn from my mistake. This is the general manager's brother in law's car. GM doesn't know about it yet and we don't really get along.

I wouldn't recommend trying an oil additive in a professional environment. If there's a concern with an injector it's always best just to replace it. I have used a similar additive called rev-x on my own truck, didn't make a damn bit of difference. Synthetic 5w-40 made a difference though.

I've been guilty of a bad attitude once in a while. It happens when you work in a garbage hole and in a place that can't seem to increase business even though we constantly turn out legitimate repairs. I haven't had a 40hr week in over a month. We've been dead in the water with truck work lately. This time last year I had 3 cabs off in 3 weeks time. Right now I can't remember the last cab that was pulled in our shop. Something weird is going on with business, I can't put my finger on it as of yet. We should be growing more. There's 2 of us here that are more than qualified to handle any diesel that rolls through the door but it just doesn't happen. I honestly wonder why we can't drum up some e-series work, as bad as it sounds I would kill for something a little challenging right now. I've turned back into a lube tech a fast as I got away from it. oh and did I mention that when the trucks do roll in they almost never run and when they do it's barely. Doing a 6.0 right now that has 17 dtcs in memory including but not limit to, FICM, EGR, fan clutch, 2 contribution codes and wif. Tell me all this shit happened at once.

That sucks Keith. My car started giving me problems right before I sold it. Had to put a rack in it after it dumped all the PS fluid on the driveway then had to run some brake lines all in a matter of a week. That did it for me.

man I would be all over that. I love customer pay 6.4 work

rear license plate lights. I use that one all the time, no one ever catches it

brand new 2012 ecoboost F-150 came in from another dealer with the A/C belt shredded. That wasn't too fun, working on something for the first time usually never is, never even done an oil change on an ecoboost yet. If you haven't done it yet getting the stretch belt back on is primative

do you guys see a lot on the 6.0s? I've only ever run across one.

I'll pick them out on a used car check just for the work. Techincally it fails visual part of PA state inspection but 90% of guys inspecting trucks wouldn't know a cooler delete if they saw one. So many go unnoticed. I just worked on a truck the other day our upholstry guy just bought. He was happy to find out the cooler was already gone. I'll be honest Keith I have no idea what the consequence would be for a dealer who sold one or the customer who traded it in. I purposely didn't trade my car in for this very reason.

no sleep til brooklyn!

08 focus, 133k miles, #3 plug blown out

That's a good price on the heads. I can't find any for any cheaper, I'd like to get a set to have worked over. Isn't it funny when you actually own a 6.0 how many parts you find necessary to acquire? I also have an engine harness, ficm harness, hpop, headgaskets etc. None of them were bought for more than half of cost.