Matt Saunoras

I go through come-back cycles all the time. Not saying they're all my fault either, they just appear to be. From what I've seen in my limited time in this business it happens to all of us. Just think back to all the times you've fixed a new customers vehicle and they're very satisfied

we wholesaled our truck so I don't have to worry about it now. The original owner did bring the cat in but no one wanted to mess with it. Finished up long blocking that 5.4 in a F250 on thursday and now have a 4r75 out of an 150 apart on the bench. OD servo snap ring in about 6 pieces and reverse band broken. Case is ruined

I know, I didn't notice it at first either.

that aint a cab lift, that's an whole body lift. I think I see some velcro holding that to the rack

oh absolutely they slow it down and take a couple extra days to process the order. It's in their best interest that you pay for shipping, if not they wouldn't give you that option. I bet a lot of people would stop using amazon if they gave up on free shipping, I know I wouldn't have a reason to go there

Anyone know where to get replacement EGT bungs? The M12x1.25 bungs with the collar for the sensor to seal against? I seem to remember reading something on FMC a while ago but I can't find the post I never thought a sensor could be so froze that you'd twist the whole entire bung off leaving a hole in the DPF about the size of a quarter. Damn EGT13 today on a customer pay job. Luckily the cab was off so it wasn't as bad as it could have been and didn't necessitate DPF removal. It took me about an hour to fabricate a new bung using the old bung and a nut. I'm handy with a mig but my fabrication skills could use a little refining.

hahaha ALSO, the other guy (puts the old in old school) in our shop who's never touched a diesel in his life manages to get a hold of a used 6.0 for a check out today. Doesn't call a thing on it, hardly even looks under the hood.... not that it would matter. So I stepped up, said something and got the okay to look at it. Clean truck, one bad battery, filters are plugged solid and it needs some cac boots. Throw IDS on it, P1000 in the memory, pyro and boost gauges on the pillar. Run it up the road real quick and peaked out at.... ehhhh...... about 29-30 PSI. This this is programmed HOT and I fully expected to find the engine bay showered in coolant. A quick peak underneath, no cat on the exhaust. 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. /rant

nevermind. I shouldn't bad mouth the other diesel guy.

Longblocking a 5.4 in a 08 F-250. Also getting both manifolds, cats, coils and plugs. Took about 4 hours diag just to figure out what this thing was doing. Aside from the 6 bad coils and 2 plugged cats oil pressure was around 15 psi hot. Also the LH manifold is split in half between 7 and 8. Since I had to pull the cats out anyways I just yanked the trans while I was in there. We have a 6.4 that was filled with gas and ran until it died and of course I didn't get that. Our other diesel guy is really starting to piss me off. Everything he fucking works on comes back.

mind me asking what these cameras are used for?

I don't know what the hell I'm going to do if I have to start pulling a bunch of these things every week. I don't like my job that much and I'm so tired of fucking trannys can anyone forsee subframe alignment problems, exhaust hardware problems or anything else that goes along with trans removal?

I've only done sable and taurus torque convertors for the stripped out splines. Those will probably be next

I never did get a chance to look at the windbag. If I do I'll report back on what I find actually I'm getting my ass handed to me by another gas job right now. 08 F250 5.4 with a seemingly random but not so random miss + some cam codes. If I can't get it by tomorrow I'll make a post. I did use the vct cam timing oscilloscope feature today on IDS(yes I'm that desperate). That was interesting to say the least

I believe hotline will say anything and everything in an attempt to bullshit their way through an actual response. Their usefulness has been dwindling lately

We've got a windstar we use as shuttle van that's been running strange lately. It's the same one that we drove while the rear axles were recalled and it nearly killed our used car manager when the thing broke driving down the road. Now it will occassionally buck and surge just driving normally, seemingly no rhyme or reason, never does it at idle or brake torquing and no misfires showing up. It's definitely a CKP/CMP related concern. Every time it does it it'll boot you out of power balance. The other guy in the shop just recently did upper intake gaskets and an IAC, then when he found out it was a sync concern he put a cam and crank sensor in it. Since I got wind of it we've checked the PCM connector for water intrusion and drove it down the road with the alt unplugged. no water was found and unplugging the alt didn't make a difference either. Now this is the end of the road for normal diag I believe. Not one pid is showing anything abnormal other than an RPM drop when it happens. CMP_F never showed a thing. No other pids seem to be useful for this so I'm not sure what is next. I'm not even a little proficient with a scope but I've got a feeling I'm going to have to learn unless someone has an idea. The cold line was ice cold today, so no help from them. Anyone run across this before? I recently fixed a 500 with an engine harness that was doing the exact same thing but it atleast gave me a weird pip code to go by. I did find a 104 pin bob and since we've been slow I am probably gonna get the go ahead to give it a shot.

coolant fill?

If I recall correctly remember the original oil coolers had the round little holes in the top whereas the new coolers are flat. I do believe there is one additional coolant passage in the later coolers and it was claimed a 10% increase in capacity (11 coolant channels instead of 10 rings a bell) not that 10% really means a damn thing, instead of a cooler clogging up in 100k miles it'll clog up in 110,000 also I have stumbled across this in my reading

wear a dust mask if you try it. I did one 2 weeks ago on a truck that was idled too much

Yeah we just did one similar, #8 and #2 melted, crankcase overfilled and horizontal cooler blown. #8 injector was definitely leaking fuel directly into the cylinder so it was identified as the cause

I saw a guy do that once when I worked for lincoln. I was also the key witness that the punched wds accidentally fell off the stand.

Yeah so am I. An oil soaked DPF could be cleaned right? say from a turbo failure what about a DPF that's plugged with material from a failed DOC, could that be cleaned?

I'll be honest I've never done headgaskets with the cab on

25 here, recommend installing studs for cp

oh that would be a beautiful sight! I wonder if the metal pans will make the plastic ones obsolete

fixed my buddies 7.3 tonight. it's tuned with a garrett 38R but it still doesn't run worth a damn with the tank pickup filters clogged solid