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After mindlessly replacing a few pumps myself, I have now started removing and throughly inspecting that harness. Found a few corroded connector pins and wires since.

After the initial bleed procedure, it sounded like it was going to start, then nothing, just cranks. Only builds up 145 PST FRP. I removed the fuel return from the left fuel rail, and monitored the fuel coming out with the electric pump running and the FCV and PCV seem to be doing their jobs. All fittings were cappped during disassembly and every precaution was used to keep the fuel system clean during assembly. Although this engine was basically a huge brick of dirt when it came in. It did run, although for only 30 seconds at a time before engine replacement( failed 1 and 5 rod bearings with head contact). It recieved a long block with 1 and 5 injectors. Other than getting a bad injector, I am not sure what is going on. I will be pulling the glowplugs to check for misting next I guess.

Even if the governments manage to mandate VIN locking tuners, or out right banned all tuner companies from selling emissions altering programmers, people will still find a way to tune them and get it out to the public. Other than making the vehicle owner accountable, repair facilities would have to start refusing to repair them. Any idiot can plug in a tuner, but very few of them can fix major issues. Manufacturers need to be more diligent with warranty refusal, but that only works as good as the repairing dealerships co-operation. It may be a slow and long battle, but these fines may be the start.

What are you guys getting for average cranking times to get these running after having the high pressure fuel system open? Mine won't get over 145 PSI after maybe 5 minutes of trying. Low pressure side is bled properly.

It makes no sense but it does happen. We have had trucks in with DPF deletes for reflashes that require us to put it back to stock, then put the tune back in after. I forgot to turn off the regen on one and it went into regen after 5 minutes of driving.

2 years ago when my last car was writen off they gave me a Kia Sorrento to drive. Had it for 2 months, took it to the mountains over christmas. I loved it, mostly. Did not like the fuel mileage of the V6. That may have changed for newer model years however. It had bluetooth for the phone, which was nice. However, I did not like the red display of the stereo, it looked cheap. Ford has always had a way of NOT LOOKING CHEAP.

Congrats, it's always nice to hear about the couples that are in it for the long haul.

I have always liked the Edge styling but wasn't big on the price. If you want to go for less money, buy the Escape, it has pretty much the same interior room, at least that is what I found. They both have very nice back seat leg room. Cargo space at the back seems comparable as well. We love our 2013 Escape, despite the recalls.

Not all are preprogrammed. I told a customer who was stuck in Jasper camping that they were, his company drove one out to him and it was blank. I then, over the phone, helped him swap the half shells to get it running and back to us.

One word of advice on these engines. DO NOT POUR OIL INTO THE FILLER NECK WITH ANY OF THE LEFT BANK INJECTORS OUT OR YOU WILL FILL THE CYLINDERS. Luckily for me I was doing the torque converter nuts before putting in the injectors or I would have hydro locked it. Engine is in, waiting on installation gasket kit.

From what I have heard on the subject, there are no design changes to the engine. It's all PCM.

We split ours up between a general tech, who does the inspection, and the electrical tech, who does the reflash. We get 2 or 3 going at one time depending on how many IDS's are free. Luckily we have enough room that it doesn't tie up a bay and he is able to work on other vehicles while they reflash.

I hear ya. I pulled, replaced the camshaft and all gaskets, installed and had running, a 350 in my 85 chev 1/2 ton in an afteroon. Sure miss the old times.

Took one out the front, no issues, did not have to tilt the cab, lots of room with the lower pan removed. Had is sitting on the floor ready for tear down in just under 8 hours.

Wonder what the expected life of a starter is on these.

Does this kit include exhaust manifold and turbo pipe gaskets and hardware, turbo mounting gaskets? Our parts listing is not very clear on everything included.

I do beleive that is a normal characteristic of those trucks. Any 7.3L with hydroboost I ever drove did that. As long as you get a nice pedal while braking and it only fades when completely stopped it is normal. Something to do with the hydroboost. Never did find out why, but we were always told it was normal.

Pulling a 6.7L with 2157 km on it. 571 hours, 507 idle hours. Thing shake rattles and rolls for 20 seconds after start up then shuts down. Hotline wanted me to pull the injectors and check the cylinder walls, then pull the exhaust manifolds and check the valves, then pull the pan and check the bearings. We opted to pull the engine and do a teardown.

I editted the post, re-read it. He needs to have the dot and dowel in the same position. It might be a little tricky with the engine apart to mark the crank but this will work.

With the engine position normally on a stand you can do this: There is a dot on the cam gear that should point at the 6 o'clock position. The dowel pin position on the crank will point to 12 'oclock then use a straight edge to transfer this position to the crank gears and mark the 2 teeth on either side of the cam marking. If you can line it all up first then have the engine sitting normally on the stand and lower the bed plate, using it as a cradle for the crank shaft, with all the conrods disconnected, it will not move out of position. You can get the crank low enough to swap out the cam and keep your timing in good shape.

The only thing with is, and I don't remember where I read it, is that when it is enabled the driver gets the option to perform the stationary regen only when the particle filter is at the 150% loaded state. I had one at %100 percent and it would not let me perform manual regen. Must have had a major brain fart on that one. Although, in my defense yesterday was one of the most frustrating days I have had in a while. Not sure if my brain was fully functional. It most likely was at 50% on the cluster and wouldn't let me do it.

I've seen 1 maybe 2 with over 200,000 kms with original rads. They are out there.

Where I work, if it is not busy, which is seldom, we have the option of going on shop time and doing some equipment maintenance or shop cleaning.

Only places I know that do them are heavy duty truck repair shops, mostly dealerships, try local heavyduty truck dealers in your area.

Rotary SPO18E310, 18000 lbs and has short enough arms to lift extended and crew cabs.