What's in your bay, part III

[Jim Warman]

One that hung around for a long, long time waiting for service records (and is still darkening my door.... ) is an 08 F350. It had three rods noticeably bent, four bent push tubes - we wont go into injectors or how it kept binding up on me.

 

Finally got a short block and one head... now an EGR and a GPCM... what next?

[YukonTyler]

2010 F150 for a hooped l/front hub and IWE due to a vacuum line failure and an ~800 km drive to Whitehorse from NWT. put it up on the hoist today and it'll be the first thing done on monday .... 2007 F550 diesel for a commerical inspection, dust seals, service .... 99 Chev Express 3500 cab & chassis bus for front rotors and pads ....

 

and finally a 99 Subaru Impreza 2.2 flat 4. $50 bought this semi-abandoned unit that had been sitting behind the shop for the last year. originally i thought i needed it for parts (cat pipe) but that turned out to not be the case. with that in mind i decided to make this my winter beater - pulled the motor to do typical head gasket repair. motor is now back together and on the stand ready to put back in next saturday. then it needs a rear pinion seal, rear wheel bearings and an alternator. she'll be on the road (with brand new studded snows) for less than $700.

[lmorris]

2008 F450 6.4L. Massive direct clutch failure. EGR valve and housing.

[Matt Saunoras]

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

[Matt Saunoras]

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

[lmorris]

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

 

Ditto...3 days ago. Did you tilt the cab and work through the fender well?

 

Currently doing a turbo on a 2011 F550. Second so far, other was on an F350 chasis/cab. Same company owns both trucks.

[Matt Saunoras]

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

[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

[Matt Saunoras]

Well if you didn't drop an F-250 off your lift today you're having a better day than me....the short story is, my rack has been fucked up for a long time, maybe now someone will acknowledge this.

 

 

Right now I've got a 05 F-550 intermittent no start that I've sent on it's way once and it's back again. No codes in it yesterday, today the only DTC it set is P2614. I absolutely can't verify this no start and I didn't catch any blips or hestitation with my sync or ficm sync. I drove this one home tonight. With the luck I'm having it won't start tomorrow morning. I'm gonna go wiggle some wires once it cools off

 

Also got another 11 F-550 6.7 with an aftermarket belt driven compressor and some codes I think are related to a smashed harness. This truck has been here twice before for the same concern and this is the first time I'll get to look at it.

 

The best part about this is, the cold side cac tube is absolutely blown to pieces, one of my codes has to do with the throttle body circuit. I can only imagine what could happen if the throttle plate wires shorted out closing the plate under a high load situation

[Brad Clayton]

Quote:

Well if you didn't drop an F-250 off your lift today you're having a better day than me....

[Matt Saunoras]

Nope, no pics. I didn't want to exasperate the situation. Casualties were both running boards and the drivers door/rocker panel. It's was an 02 7.3 and pretty rusted. The customer doesn't even know if he'll bother fixing it, it's a farm truck.

 

My lift isn't level, it's about 2 inches difference from right to left because the floor is slanted too. I won't even rack my own truck up on it and I shouldn't have had this one as high as I did (fishing in tranny cooler lines).

 

It was just a bad combination of things. I knew if something was going to happen it would be a truck, a car wouldn't have had the weight to shift

[Jim Warman]

If a hoist is unsafe, the smart money says "don't use it". I don't want to harp on something, Matt, but if we don't step up to the plate and say "This is fucking wrong", then things aren't going to change until somebody gets hurt or goes to jail.

 

Using unsafe equipment can only be described in one word... and I hesitate to use it because it just isn't a compliment.....

 

We are adults and we are professionals - it's time we acted like it.

[Matt Saunoras]

The hoist guy came out today and said there's nothing he can do. I just wish the building would cave in and get it over with. We are working on trucks with pretty much no floor beneath us. (who builds a shop on the second level?)

 

I can't get anywhere with either one of my F-550s. The 05 still won't reproduce any concerns, other than the P2614 I have nothing to roll with. At the very least that code tells me the customer isn't totally full of it. The 11 has a smashed main engine harness in between the compressor and right side EGR cooler. Can't verify any concern with the egr throttle plate or wiring. The cold side cac where it attaches to the throttle body absolutely exploded, there was some serious pressure associated with this failure.

 

I really want to pull the EGR valve and front of the coolers to relocate this main harness but I know damn well I won't get paid to do it.

[Jim Warman]

This is going to be a difficult thing for Keith because I'm perpetuating a fucked up thread.

 

The hoist thing, to me, is a very real concern. I have to wonder how many guys are doing exactly what you are.

 

HERE is a link to something that isn't so much as a faulty hoist (though improper lifting adapters could be called a faulty "lift" - using it as a verb rather than a noun).

 

The hoist guy says "nothing can be done". This says to me that the hoist is unsafe for continued use. I can't speak for the US, but here in Canada my employer can get in a lot of trouble for insisting that I work in an unsafe manner.

 

From the tome of your reply, I get the feeling that you are resigned to working under an unsafe hoist.... And I am left totally amazed.

 

You may also want to look at the Automotive Lift Institute website. You are absolutely no fucking good to anyone (especially your family) if you allow yourself to be all gibbled up because you decided using a faulty hoisting device was a reasonable course of action. It is time to display your testicles, young sir.

 

As for either of your 550s... if they wont act broken they have entered the manual time world. If they insist that you continue, get a pledge for a finite amount of diag time (with no assurance that a fault will be identified) or turn the truck loose with a VDR.

 

The 11 with the smash harness should be a no brainer. What smashed the harness?

[Matt Saunoras]

 

 

My rack is getting leveled, when I don't know. I think the pros outweigh the cons. Yeah the arms will be higher on the right side when it's fully down but I don't care. We only have 2 racks that can lift trucks and mine is useless to me if I can't lift a truck.

My 05 still won't reproduce, it's getting quoted a harness. The only thing I screwed around with on that truck is the harness and since it's magically cured itself it only stands to reason.

I found the problem with the 2011, pulled the egr valve and bypass off and opened the harness up. Found about 4 wires total that were in the process of getting rubbed through, I don't know what the other 3 are yet. The TACM+ wire was what I found rubbed completely through grounding out on the engine. Think that throttle plate snapped shut under high boost? I do

I don't know what I'm going to do about repairing this yet. The harness doesn't have a lot of room where it is and it can't be relocated like I previously thought. Adding a splice will only bulk up the haress even more.

[lmorris]

Putting back together a 6f35 mid range for core on an 09 Escape. Luckily I found clutch material in enough stuff to warrant replacement.

[lmorris]

Repo'd 2011 F350. P0073, ambient air temp input high. The guy switched out the mirrors for older ones.

[Alex Bruene]

Repo'd 2011 F350. P0073, ambient air temp input high. The guy switched out the mirrors for older ones.

Saw quite a few with Velvac mirrors when the truck first came out with this issue. Thankfully most body builders have caught on!

[Jim Warman]

Waiting for parts for a 1999 Fleetwood Bounder - 37 footer. Landing gear parts for a 39 foot 5th wheel trailer and furnace parts for an old Coachman 5th wheel.....

 

Did I mention that we currently don't have an RV tech?

[lmorris]

Got a 2001 F350 that I just put a new oil pan on, along with rear cover reseal, rear main seal, new turbo pipe gaskets and a dipstick tube. Now the truck is stuck in the air because my hoist blew a hose when it got to the top and fell onto the locks...

[Keith Browning]

A 2007 Quigley 4X4 van with a 7 foot hot dog on the roof!

[lmorris]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....hotdog..

[Matt Saunoras]

doing a fuel system in a 6.4 that was run on 20 gallons of gas/diesel mix. Also putting a rad and belt tensioner in it too

 

It's a regular cab and my rack is still messed up so I decided to just partial cab lift. Not the best idea I ever had for a pump and 8 injectors. I can lay under the hood of a 6.0 all day and not get tired, this thing is beating me to death though. I was joking with parts eariler and told him to 1 day special order a casket for me and just lay it under the hood so I can crawl in tomorrow.

[Matt Saunoras]

2006 F-250 6.0 152k miles. Died on the road won't restart

 

 

Actually its not in my bay. I coasted it in behind my damn MKX

[Brad Clayton]