Brad Clayton

Hope he had some sort of tractor brake setup to steer the thing.

He's definetly a night owl. Either that or he gets up to pee alot and stops by the lap top on the way back to bed.

I wonder if the aftermarket will figure out a way to get around that?

Can we get a hint please?

That's a serious friggin crate that things bolted to. There's more engineering on the stand than on a 6.4.

Took me a while to come across another failure as the one in this post, but I finally had one break again, actually we had two back to back. This particular t-case out of a '97 exploder, had a pick up for the pump break which in turn allowed the whole unit to wear abnormally. The shift fork then doesn't keep the sleeve engaged in the planet assy and it will back out ever so slightly when not under a load. Kinda like how you can slip a manual trans out of gear when coasting but you can't when your in the throttle.

Any luck with this thing? I one like it where someone has monkeyed with the wiring and it turned out to be the door ajar circuit back feeding thru the cluster and keeping the pcm powered up.

That's no excuse there buddy

I had a body shop bring an Escape in with trans issues. Seems they replaced the radiator and mixed up the lower tranny cooler hose with the coolant bypass hose. Thing was a mess and they wanted to flush the coolant mix out of the trans. I said forget about it and told them to bite the bullet and put a trans in it. The decided to flush the trans and flush the trans and flush the trans......and one more flush. Well after about 400 bucks in fluid and flushes they finally bought a unit.

They wont have anyone to work on there cars at all. I just got handed a flag sheet for 4.6hrs to put a heater box in an '07 F-150. That's a ridiculously low time to do that job correctly.

I feel your pain brother. The little black rain cloud can only hang over your dealer for so long though.

I bet your new service manager jumped your shit over it, right? Is he screamin' back flag, charge back, or dockin' your pay for the part? I'm just breakin your balls

I gotta resert in A-5 and A-6 to retain senior master so I signed up for the new A-9 while I was at it. Anybody else taking this course?

I keep seeing the year 2011 thrown around. I thought they were going to end the 6.4 in 2010. Does this mean Ford is going to skip the '10 year model like they did the '98 model Super duty?

If you keep that torch handy, you can warm the area where the o-ring sits and she will come right out.

Quote: 3-valve 5.4's (and mod-motors in general) I'll be more than happy to fly through For me it was the torque shift recalls. I could do 3 in a day and that equalled 19.2 hours a day.

My personal Ranger was going thru heater cores like crazy, I finally wrapped a ground wire around the inlet side of the core tube and secured with a worm clamp and grounded to the fender and haven't put another one in yet, that was 8 years ago. And this thing is so old I never maintain the cooling system and she's still holding up.

You got any photos of this unit?

Why even bother with it when the regular stuff has worked for a hundred years?

Oh man, good stuff there. Laughter is the best way to make thru the day when dealing with something like that. Of course it doesn't hurt when there are thousands of comedians out of work and they all end up being mechanics.

Hope it didn't take ya long. They don't pay for shite. Happy Birthday!

I you make a very good point. In the past I would let known broken stuff ride while trying to fix other problems of more importance. But now with vehicles systems being so interrelated, I go out of my way to fix anything that aint workin right in an effort to get to the root cause of a concern. 2 examples: had a focus that would go into pcm reset mode when you would turn on the accessories. It was just like you cycle the key off and then on while driving. Upon visual inspection noticed that the motor had been replaced by the biggest hack whom I have yet to meet. Bolts missing, lines routed wrong, a/c manifold not even hooked up just dangling, ect. Well after frickin with this thing for a week and even and fse looking at it (who gave up on it by the way), I decided to just put the car back together as it should be. After doing so the car was fixed for it's concern. It turned out that the alternator power wire that is supposed to run over the top of the valve cover was run under the oil pan and zip tied to the crank sensor harness. Talk about some serious rfi. The other was a 95 powerstroke with a bad pcm (chipped and fried). While getting to that found a few other problems including a seriously screwed up glow plug relay (had a mind of its own). Had a hard time getting the customer to put a pcm in it. Replaced the pcm only and got it running then it stalled then it wouldn't run again. Turns out the glow plug relay was zapping the system such as a bad ebp would with 5 volt ref.