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If cold start smoke is the only concern and he had no other concerns like long crank times cold or needing to plug it in all the time, it probably has a few bad glow plugs. A leaking injector would more than likely leak all the time not just on a cold start. Some smoke (blueish/white) is normal on a "cold start" no matter what temp is out side but worsens as it gets colder. most 7.3's will start with two or three bad GP's but will have some not to happy holes till they get a little heat in them causing smoke.

Some people are like slinkies..... Completely useless, but can still bring a smile to your face if you push them down a flight of stairs!!

make sure your version of NETS is up to date and your password hasn't expired I usually have the same problem because I don't use NETS enough to keep it "fresh"

The bulldog's the easy part the dog is basicly the same as any other truck it's realy the hood trim thats not so easy to find. heres the story. It started innocently enough. A couple of senior members ( Fred Robinson, Bill Lynch, and Paul Facella) talking about the “old times” and sharing stories of times past. Invariably, it included the trucks of that time and place and how much fun they were back then. In this case, a beloved 1947 Mack. It was a dinner of the membership of Columbia Engine Company No. 1 of the Oceanside Fire Department. Those members reminiscing about times long gone, made a decision that night, one that they would soon be involved with, to see if they could locate this particular truck. This truck, a 1947 Model 45S, Chassis # 45S-1378 was built in Allentown Pennsylvania. It was completed on November 12, 1947 and towed to the Mack facility at the time, located on Long Island. There it was completed for service, with the addition of specific firefighting equipment being installed. This included a 200 gpm pump with a 400 gallon tank. One of the features of the truck, was 3 booster lines, one on each side of the truck as well as the rear. This was especially needed for the many grass fires in the salt marshes that were quite prevalent during those years. It was sold to the Oceanside Fire District on February 3, 1948. At that point, it was given to Columbia Engine Company and complimented its 1930 LaFrance pumper which was already in service. The new Mack was replacing a 1927 Larabee which had been in service at the time, for 20 years. The new Mack served with distinction for the next 12 years, being replaced in 1959 with a new Approved Fire truck, made locally in Island Park New York. The fate of the 47 Mack, like so many other trucks, was sketchy at best, the rumor was that it was sold off to Bohemia Fire Dept. located out east on Long Island. With that bit of information, the group started working the phones to see if they could locate the truck. What they did not realize, was the timing of this adventure could not have been more fortuitous. Calls to Bohemia were answered, and we found out , through Commissioner Alan Behounek, that the truck served another 17 years and then was sold to a department in Florida. But where? Again, using old fashioned digging for information and with help from Bohemia, it was determined that the truck was with the Highlands Volunteer Fire Company. Some correspondence back and forth, and lo and behold, we located our truck. It seems that the Highlands group was equally enamored with the 47 Mack, and gave us their history. They did receive it in 1973 as there was a need to form the Highlands Volunteer Fire Dept by the founders of the community. Their rational was obvious, they had a bad house fire and a loss of life with a recent incident. They needed to do something. A number of charter members, two specifically, Si Bolles and William McCarthy (both later to become the departments first chief and Department president) traveled to a Tampa auction yard and purchased the Mack with $1500.00 of donated contributions. It was then stationed on a vacant lot across from the Chief’s house, and leased to the county in late 1973. The County then built a fire station on a lot donated by a local developer. The truck was then painted yellow (which was the “in” color at the time) and remained in service until about 1980-81. At that time, the county purchased the department its first E1 1980 pumper. The Mack was then put out to pasture, a well deserved time out after serving 3 departments for a total of 33 years. At that point, once again, a group of individuals (Don Story, Steven Story, Marty Story and others) kept the truck in operating shape and used it for various events and details. Then in 1988, a more formal committee was established of younger members with the goal of restoring the truck back to original shape. With the help of two local auto body painters , it was restored back to it’s original red color. It kept going to events, including Santa riding at Christmas time and continued until 2005, officially in service. At that point the county was going to a paid combination department. This resulted in no more funds available for the Mack to offset insurance and upkeep. Once again, the membership, concerned about the trucks fate, wanted to see it go to a museum or suitable home, preferably its original home. The irony of this story is the timing. The Columbia team managed to find Highlands, just as they were struggling to figure out what to do with it. The timing was perfect! By October 5, 2006 the 47 Mack was flat bedded to New York. After almost 50 years, it was home. Although it ran, it was in need of some serious renovation, and the Columbia team jumped into the task with both time and donated dollars. Many individual vendors gave, donated, or discounted their products and services to help bring the Mack back to its glory. Steve Owen, a former Lieutenant of Columbia spearheaded the restoration project almost single handily. After a few months, the engine died and the quest to find a suitable replacement which would be historically correct was launched. This was done only after realizing that a total rebuild would be difficult and costly. Brakes, electric, plumbing and a new bed were just some of the many improvements made. While it is still a “work in progress” nonetheless, the Mack is back home and the pride of Engine 1 once again.

Need help in finding this hood ornament (the dog and nameplate/trim) for a friend of mine at Columbia Eng#1, Oceanside N.Y. for a '47 Mack that they re-acquired and have restored to original condition as it was when they sold it years ago and are going to use as a parade vehicle. I'm sure there has to be one of these lying around somewhere out here, lets find it. If anybody want the whole story I'll post it.

Great point maybe you should try taking the offending bus and a similar unit to the local landfill, truck stop, feed store, or any other place that has a scale and compare it's weight to the problem free similar unit. If all other factors are equal it has to be driver abuse. having this info will sure keep you from looking like an asshole when you start throwing stones at the driver.

If you continue to resubmit a bounced claim Ford will eventually "pay" the claim but "pay" $0 ACES shows it "paid" not rejected so you can't resubmit it again. I replaced a long block in a truck after a meltdown of some pistons,since I couldn't really diag the true cause of the failure properly with out a full CSI type investigation I also replaced the EGR cooler. well long story short the entire claim bounced for the EGR cooler, we resubmitted it and they paid the engine and kicked the EGR cooler,the WA submitted the claim again for the EGR cooler and they paid it for $0 so it can't be submitted again.

I went from 10 months of not replacing a FICM to three in the last three weeks one three weeks ago and two on backorder friday

My boss doesn't threaten me with the 126 he has commented on us being high in an area before but followed it immediately with "we didn't build them, we just gotta fix what comes through the door whether Ford likes it or not" we keep an eye on the numbers and try to "space things out" when necessary to stay under the radar. As a result we are a level one dealer, and have good CSI scores, a good reputation, and loyal customers.We have had the warranty audit police here looking for something to charge us back for and they left empty handed!

your dealership should have been shipped the Rotunda "multimedia interface tester" it will test the line in,usb,and blue tooth in one handy dandy little box. just got an Edge in customer states "usb port inop". popped the tester in and it all worked fine,writer says "the customer tried to update it with a download from sync my ride and it wouldn't work so update it for him".I say but it works fine it must be his usb device-----"just update it!" /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/fouet3.gif poof..... /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hahaha.gif "INTERNET explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close" /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hitthefan.gif guess what, now it has a b1342 and needs an APIM. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbup.gif HA it's only stocked in Detroit and takes about three days to get... /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif it just keeps getting better.

does the amount of static lessen as the car slows? Does the speed sensitive volume work? Self test the ACM any codes U0155 B2103

I found the best sign EVER!!! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbup.gif EDIT PLEASE CHECK OUT THE LINK ADDED http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4221

I'm going to be in Mexico in early January and in Northern Vermont late January (pretty close to Canada) Maybe I'll defect to one country or the other!!!! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbup.gif

The following is a condensation of a series from the Investor's Business Daily explaining "What Caused the Loan Crisis": 1977: Pres. Jimmy Carter signs the Community Reinvestment Act into Law. The law pressured financial institutions to extend home loans to those who would otherwise not qualify. The Premise: Home ownership would improve poor and crime-ridden communities and neighborhoods in terms of crime, investment, jobs, etc. Results: Statistics bear out that it did not help. How did the government get so deeply involved in the housing market? Answer: Bill Clinton wanted it that way. 1992: Republican representative Jim Leach (IO) warned of the danger that Fannie and Freddie were changing from being agencies of the public at large to money machines for the principals and the stock holding few. 1993: Clinton extensively rewrote Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's rules turning the quasi-private mortgage-funding firms into semi-nationalized monopolies dispensing cash and loans to large Democratic voting blocks and handing favors, jobs and contributions to political allies. This potent mix led inevitably to corruption and now the collapse of Freddie and Fannie. 1994: Despite warnings, Clinton unveiled his National Home-Ownership Strategy which broadened the CRA in ways congress never intended. 1995: Congress, about to change from a Democrat majority to Republican, Clinton orders Robert Rubin's Treasury Dept to rewrite the rules. Robt. Rubin's Treasury reworked rules, forcing banks to satisfy quotas for sub-prime and minority loans to get a satisfactory CRA rating. The rating was key to expansion or mergers for banks. Loans began to be made on the basis of race and little else. 1997 - 1999: Clinton, bypassing Republicans, enlisted Andrew Cuomo, then Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, allowing Freddie and Fannie to get into the sub-prime market in a BIG way. Led by Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd, congress doubled down on the risk by easing capital limits and allowing them to hold just 2.5% of capital to back their investments vs. 10% for banks. Since they could borrow at lower rates than banks their enterprises boomed. With incentives in place, banks poured billions in loans into poor communities, often "no doc", "no income", requiring no money down and no verification of income. Worse still was the cronyism: Fannie and Freddie became home to out-of work-politicians, mostly Clinton Democrats. 384 politicians got big campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie. Over $200 million had been spent on lobbying and political activities. During the 1990's Fannie and Freddie enjoyed a subsidy of as much as $182 Billion, most of it going to principals and shareholders, not poor borrowers as claimed. Did it work? Minorities made up 49% of the 12.5 million new homeowners but many of those loans have gone bad and the minority homeownership rates are shrinking fast. 1999: New Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers, became alarmed at Fannie and Freddie's excesses. Congress held hearings the ensuing year but nothing was done because Fannie and Freddie had donated millions to key congressmen and radical groups, ensuring no meaningful changes would take place. "We manage our political risk with the same intensity that we manage our credit and interest rate risks," Fannie CEO Franklin Raines, a former Clinton official and current Barack Obama advisor, bragged to investors in 1999. 2000: Secretary Summers sent Undersecretary Gary Gensler to Congress seeking an end to the "special status". Democrats raised a ruckus as did Fannie and Freddie, headed by politically connected CEO's who knew how to reward and punish. "We think that the statements evidence a contempt for the nation's housing and mortgage markets" Freddie spokesperson Sharon McHale said. It was the last chance during the Clinton era for reform. 2001: Republicans try repeatedly to bring fiscal sanity to Fannie and Freddie but Democrats blocked any attempt at reform; especially Rep. Barney Frank and Sen.Chris Dodd who now run key banking committees and were huge beneficiaries of campaign contributions from the mortgage giants. 2003: Bush proposes what the NY Times called "the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago". Even after discovering a scheme by Fannie and Freddie to overstate earnings by $10.6 billion to boost their bonuses, the Democrats killed reform. 2005: Then Fed chairman Alan Greenspan warns Congress: "We are placing the total financial system at substantial risk". Sen. McCain, with two others, sponsored a Fannie/Freddie reform bill and said, "If congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system and the economy as a whole". Sen. Harry Reid accused the GOP ;of trying to "cripple the ability of Fannie and Freddie to carry out their mission of expanding homeownership" The bill went nowhere. 2007: By now Fannie and Freddie own or guarantee over HALF of the $12 trillion US mortgage market. The mortgage giants, whose executive suites were top-heavy with former Democratic officials, had been working with Wall St. to repackage the bad loans and sell them to investors. As the housing market fell in '07, sub prime mortgage portfolios suffered major losses. The crisis was on, though it was 15 years in the making. 2008: McCain has repeatedly called for reforming the behemoths, Bush urged reform 17 times. Still the media have repeated Democrats' talking points about this being a "Republican" disaster. A few Republicans are complicit but Fannie and Freddie were created by Democrats, regulated by Democrats, largely run by Democrats and protected by Democrats. That's why taxpayers are now being asked for $700 billion!! If you doubt any of this, just click the links below and listen to your lawmakers own words. They are condemning! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68D9XrqyrWo&feature=related# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9juJr8CSY4&feature=related# Postscript: ACORN is one of the principle beneficiaries of Fannie/ Freddie's slush funds. They are currently under indictment or investigation in many states. Barack Obama served as their legal counsel, defending their activities for several years.

That setup would be the cats ass if I had not just replaced the pipes and gaskets last month. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banghead.gif I didn't see any broken bolts, I was thinking I didn't want the poor old guy to have to buy new manifolds he's recently spend a ton on repairs. on the other hand the truck is just about fully broken in (380+k miles) /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbup.gif and I guess it's really due for some new parts..

I have a 2001 F-350 with an exhaust leak at the manifold where it meets the cylinder head. anybody have any luck installing a gasket,or have a part number for a gasket. My parts guys says no listing. Or should I just do what I suspect is the best way and replace the manifold????

Keith I think it's more than likley that "your stuff" and "my stuff" both come from the same place, AER in Teterboro. I guess we are blessed huh?

I guess I should feel lucky, I had one 5.4L that had a horible engine vibration, got paid to SPW the engine, and one E4OD that wouldn't shift into 3rd gear, found the shift valve stuck I moved it with a pick and it snapped into place and it was fine ever since.

I did find a big bag of weed under a cop car back seat while replacing a seat belt. I used my better judgment suspecting the "set up" and let the cop know about it. I feel that he knew it was there and he probably had it there to use if it was necessary to add a possession charge to a suspect.

Yeah I wonder too ??????

yeah I saw that but I was thinking how nice that much space would be!! my shop isn't the smallest place I've worked but I can hardly turn around with out bumping into myself.

truth be told I just about missed out on this.../forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/whew.gif I generally just delete emails from any address I don't immediately recognize or I'm not expecting, and I deleted this one on 10/14 . I got a "reminder" to register before 10/31/08 and noticed the subject before it to got deleted. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbup.gif Boy I would have felt like I was Canadian if I missed out on a free/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/ford.gif(with 1099 tax form) /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/readthis.gif trip to Mexico

Sorry to the Canadian crew your still FMC's unwanted step kids Senior Master Alumni, Congratulations! It is my great pleasure to inform you that you have met all the requirements of the 2008 Fix-it-right Champions Contest, and your name is one of the 110 names that were drawn to win a 4-night trip to the Marriott Casamagna Cancun Resort scheduled for January 8-12, 2009. The winners' names were posted to the PTS website moments ago. Anybody from here going? Besides Me??? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Quote: so far I have done nothing becuse roush does not want to pay Yeah Roush and Shelby are great at not paying. we just had a Shelby GT with a horrid grunt noise from the rear, It was coming from the rear anti sway bar urethane bushings, they were bone dry .The tech wanted to put some grease on them to make the guy that just spent REAL GOOD COIN on a Shelby Mustang happy. The bolts holding the bushings are installed with 2 Gal of red lock tight and one broke one the Allen hex striped. Shelby's response was "You touched it last, it's not our problem and our disclaimer form says that our suspension parts will make noise and it's normal. We will do nothing for the customer" The best part is that they won't sell you ONE new sway bar link or a pair of them, ONLY the complete rear sway bar kit for around $500 !!!!!

next chance I get I'll shoot a couple pics Hey Slim you guys seeing many AFT axle steel tanks delaminating?? That seems also to be a regional failure /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shrug.gif