Fredsvt Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 Here's one for a chuckle. Very early '99, lady calls and says its smoking badly, has no power and they "think" its low on oil. (it was full) Get it in, hmm, idles pretty good, no smoke. Rev it and it runs like a gas engine with bad plug wires. I open drain on filter housing to dump some in a bucket, hmmm what's that smell.... Gasoline. A full tank's worth too. The truck was driven from Pennsylvania to our shop, about a 45 minute run or about an eighth of a tank. Call customer, say to her that the idiots at the fuel station filled it wrong. She said, "that was me" Oh... well, we have to drain it, filter, etc and see if it lives. Then she says, at the same time I filled my 2006 Dodge Cummins, common rail with the same fuel. UGH. It's dead at her horse farm. The Ford seems to have lived, it has Alliants in it (350k), so I hope the coated barrels did their job. At 414,000 it's not worth putting another set into. I added 3 pics of this beast to my photos, I need to figure out how to put them in posts. This was about a year ago, it's exponentially worse now. There's not a straight panel on this truck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Browning Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 Allow me Fred... What a pile! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredsvt Posted September 23, 2010 Author Share Posted September 23, 2010 It looks it, doesn't it? Believe it or not, it runs and drives better than so many others that look fine. It's one of the ones that's been under a white light its whole life, for the abuse its seen, so little non-driver induced problems have happened to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Clayton Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 I gotta little black rain cloud that hangs over my shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbudge Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 I wish that trucks could talk. They would have great stories to tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktmlew Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 That'll buff right out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredsvt Posted September 24, 2010 Author Share Posted September 24, 2010 One of her drivers got pulled over by the NJ state police today. They gave him a ticket for no front plate. It flew off a long while ago. I can't believe that's all they got. Jeez. I could get it for about 100 things without really looking! All are parts we've changed repeatedly, but her Mexican workers keep on knocking them all off. Anything plastic or glass and breakable, well, you can guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Browning Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 This'll fix it... The customer stated the truck wasn't like that when he dropped it off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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