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Putting a left cylinder head, that I didn't remove, back on a 97 F250 HD. 96 body style. The WSM does not state that I have to put in any headbolts before lowering the head into place. It looks tight and it has been so long since I have done this before and I am skeptical. Any quick response would be helpful. Figured it out. One bolt needs to be installed with head first. Lower row, furthest back. Nice of them to mention that in the WSM. It also says to remove and install the head without the exhaust manifold, but all thre pictures show it hanging off the crane with the manifold attached. And you do need to have it removed. Especially the left side.

Seen that in a printed ad for, but don't quote me because it was a few weeks ago and I may be wrong, Mercedes Blue Tec. I started to laugh and everyone around me couldn't see what was so funny. I just told them it's an automotive thing.

Thanks for the updates.

Nothing in OASIS yet though.

We get in so many fleet trucks that we can afford to tell the 5 or 6 buses in our area that we are too busy.

Well, one's priorities do change when you have kids.

+1 to that.

While reading another post about customer's needing to tow their vehicles instead of driving them it reminded of something I saw many years ago. Mustang comes in with a real bad clunk in the rear. After lifting the car we found the rear lower control arm is ripped out of the body and the diff gears are all torn up. Upon asking the customer what happened he says it just happened and wanted warrenty. Unknowingly to him his buddy is in the breezeway chatting up the service writer. He says: " We went to the Pink Floyd concert last night and smoked up, after the show we put the racing slicks on the car and went ripping down Jasper ave." There goes his warrenty. He doesn't want us to fix it at this point, and is going to tow it home. We slid the axles back in the housing and used some tie wire to hold them in so it could be towed away. 3 hours later they show up with a truck and a towrope. Yes, they flat towed it home with the truck, not sure how far they got before the axles came out, but at that point we didn't care.

Lower left corner by the drain??? Did you manage to get the rad back in using the WSM procedure?

About 75% of the techs here have MP3 players hooked up to speakers or computers, one guy has satelite radio hooked up also. For the most part I had to listen to whatever everyone else is listening to, most of which was not my listening favorites. Last week I got me a new laptop, curtousy of my manager because sales can't do SYNC updates through Windows 7, so he gave it to me to use for IDS etc. It has a nice webcam, hence the recent photos, and a decent set of speakers. Back to my reason for this post...Now I can listen to my favorite radio station over the interweb...Sonic 102.9 out of Edmonton AB, Canada. Modern rock plus some good oldies from the 90's and The Beastie Boys thrown in.

Don't have one. But I do have a copy of Phineas and Ferb in my DVD player and Spongebob Squarepants in the VCR....

Not much of a drinker, but I do have a few Lucky Lagers chilling in the fridge. The wife just picked up a bottle of Disaronno, she found a nice recipe that uses white chocolate and milk, real nice with coffee at the end of the day.

Let's hope not.

Saving the environment one filter at a time.

It was leaking at the side tank crimp.

Do yourself a huge favor and DO NOT FOLLOW THE WSM for this procedure. Take the truck apart like you would the 6.4L. Your knuckles and sorrounding co-workers(you will swear alot if you try it) will thank you. There is more than enough time to do this, it comes apart pretty easy.

Odd that it's in idle only. We have a lot here and all they do is reduce power while the light is on. Are you sure it's not out of DEF or the sensor thinks it is?

Look down behind the cam gear, it usually sits back there somewhere. Mine have never made it past the cam gear, lucky me. If you can't find it from the top, drain the oil and try a small flexable magnet throught the drain plug hole. If you still can't find it drop the lower pan.

Can't say at the moment, Youtube is blocked here. Will check at home and let you know. BTW it's the one with the stop watch in the corner timing both sets of guys.

Been there, done that. I knew the pump was bad, but for the life of me I couldn't figure out why it kept telling me to change the injector. Especially since I had used that PPT to diagnose and replace a reductant pump previously. I soon realised my "Flat rate reading mistake" after sending in a hotline request.

Anyone seen the new MR LUBE ad that has the side by side windows of MR LUBE techs and dealer techs going through warm ups and stuff. Very offensive in my opinion. As a dealer technician I look nothing like those two they had there. And in my opinion those that look like that at a dealership usually end up at MR LUBE in the end anyways.

Starting to see some false codes coming out of this calibration update. Sabotage maybe, they need to maybe check who they have doing these calibrations.

How exactly did they check the piston? I had one that had a knocking when hot. #8, so my first instinct was to put in the updated injector. Customer brought it back with same knock. Replaced the piston, assuming it was collapsed, and knock was fixed. Never had the piston actually inspected.

Sorry, no pics. The only major damage was the washer jet and hoses were burnt, maybe from the fire, maybe just the hot exhaust. There is a lot of oil all over the driver's side of this so I am surprised there isn't more damage. Oh well, maybe next time. Fixed the EGR pipe leak, now I get to find which CAC tube is blowing the oil all over. FUN!!!!