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Is Ford going to provide us with a sawzall and a TIG welder?

Got my coffee table book today at the 6.7 class.

I got my money back from MAC on the tools. He wasn't a happy camper.

Keep your head up. Life goes on.

Mac tools has the Jiffy-Tite tools-They raped me for $90 on the Lisle kit. Ford (PTS) has the same kit for $60.

That will never happen. Too many unethical techs out there.

Our lube rack NEVER checks the trans fluid levels after a flush, unless it has a conventional dip stick. We have so many come backs it ain't funny.

Does that make it organic?

Got my e-mail today. I'll be at the Houston training center April 14th-16th.

Very little. Think of how much time we lose on these diesels. 1)They don't start-push them into your stall. 2)Charge batteries. 3)Go find an IDS 4)Do the actual diag 5)Spend 15 min fetching parts 6) Perform repair 7)Road test-break down on road test, wait 30 min for wrecker 8)Rediag (for free) You catch my drift? 9)

BTW. Checking the boxes about vehicle condition makes no difference to Ford. Whatever you answer will come up as "no" on the review. I had a truck that was abused, the oil was dirty. I checked the boxes with a "yes". When I reviewed the approval, all the replys I gave came up as no. It's all a smoke and mirrors game with us techs.

When you log in to the prior approval link on the PTS web site, there will be questions you will have to answer. What codes,power balance, relative compression results etc.

The HP fuel pumps are coming apart from poor fuel,read gas mixed with diesel. Ford is now pulling fuel samples on warranty fuel pump and injector repairs. They are denying warranty claims on vehicles the fail the fuel sample tests.

Don't waste your time pulling the trans like the book says. Much easier to pull the cab. Which you will have to do anyway when the y-pipe bolts strip off.

Same person must have signed off on the cruise control harness recall. "Here, put this fused harness in and all will be good". "Oh wait, the fuse is on the wrong circuit".

I don't think the guy got lucky. We do 'em all day long like you mentioned. Like Service Manager said, "If we don't do it, someone else would". I don't even bring up the subject of modifications anymore.

I had a 6.4 kick my butt like that also.I installed a sender just hours before and the slight amount of gas ate up the "VV power valve". Ran fine, until I backed it out my stall. There is a slight slope behind my stall that was enough to lower the fuel level just enough to suck air. Always pour some fuel on the ground and see if it catches fire when lit. An gas present will burn right away.

Remember when we used to be sarcastic and tell a person (jokingly) that their muffler fluid was low? Well, guess what? Now there is such a thing!

.3 on a diesel. By the time you rack the vehicle,drain the oil, order parts, run back to parts because they did not turn the oil on............I'm already in the hole .5 We are not technicians anymore. Grease monkey has come full circle.

You're right. The lube guys can fill the urea tanks. They have us resetting TPMS lights for free. We get .2 for an oil change.

You will have to replace the fuel sender. The gas eats up the silicone by-pass valve and the pickup screen.

So you don't fill washer bottles for free?

Very detailed course. One of the best yet.

Great explanation Larry! I read somewhere that when a boat's propeller cavitates, it is caused by the water boiling when it hits the surface of the prop. Offshore oil drilling pipes suffer the same thing. The ocean's currents causes eddys on the back side of the drill pipe causing some major errosion. They fix that by putting aero dynamic fairings on the drill pipe.

If I flagged the labor op for the pipe, they would say it's overlapping time and shoot it back down.