Keith Browning

6E7Z-9A332-B As I recall this kit services both the 4.5L and the 6.0L

I know there is documentation to this effect: the standpipe o-rings are no longer serviced separately. You MUST install a standpipe kit that includes the standpipes, dummy plugs and a couple of loose seals.

Damn Mike! Why not epoxy the connections too... just to be safe!

See this article: 7.3L UVC Harness Retainer Clips

Great tip if you have an engine that wont run! This way you can at least narrow it down to one side if you intend on removing glow plugs to identify the affected cylinder.

We have delivered a couple dozen already. local rental company bought some and we now have one as our newest parts vans... just lettered and logoed up!

I tooled around FMC Dealer and it appears to load and behave well using Windows 7 and IE8. Since my last PC here at home came from a different decade I skipped the Vista generation so I went from XP to 7. So far I like it VERY much though I admit I am having trouble finding things as they no longer exist. Outlook Express for one... I finally discovered Windows Live Mail... what a bitch importing my messages. I ended up having to email them to myself.

Well lemme tell ya, NO. Just finished one up and I took it in the cheeks hard. It was at the dealer for 33 days, I probably spent a total of 50+ hours on it and got paid 41.6 for the diagnosis, repair and the open recall 09B08 (injector) which apparently was to root cause of the failure. After performing all of the diag, filling out forms, contacting the Hot-Line I had to repeat the process because "they" washed their hands of it and told me to call the recall program center because it was 09B08 related damage. Doing a cost cap on one of these is a nightmare and making the calls and forms is time consuming. I spent the better part of 4 hours on that alone... all for a mere 0.3 hours. Mind you this is not the first one of these I have repaired. Get this, since my dealer is in a state where the parts and labor mark up is high, our cost cap on diesel engines is $15,000 instead of the nation wide $10,000. I wasn't looking for an engine necessarily but this means that on some future repairs I might be fixing what really would be better off being replaced. When I got done with it yesterday I went and re-evaluated the fuel injection system and low and behold I see injector #8 short fuel trim at (-14) so I had to go back into the engine to replace that. I still love what I do BUT I am really getting sick and tired of the crap involved with the job that Ford puts us through and it is really getting hard to make hours at all. This is one of those times I am thinking about a career change as I don't see any change or improvement on the horizon. But, stupid me will likely be found in the same fucking service bay ten years from now...

I am off until January 4th! I have lots of softwate to load and files to transfer...

Yeah, them boys north of the border get crazy ambitious sometimes. It must be the arctic air.

I have only seen two bad branch tubes in my shop. Both were completely cracked with one branch completely separated.

I have never replaced one on a 4.5L but the 6.0L coolers used to come assembled to a new cover. I just finished a 6.4L short block and the new oil cooler I ordered came assembled to a new cover. I think the 6.0L come as cores only to reduce warranty costs due to the sheer number of coolers replaced. Perhaps someone here will know for sure.

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Ohhhh! NOW we are sturring up some shit!

Up until now I was hoping the be naughty!

Some of us can't afford to turn away work

Name for the PC? How about MINE! (kids ain't allowed on the office compooper)

eastendpowerstroke

Some of you may recall my commenting that I was using a computer I built 9 years ago... the very PC that this website was born and developed with. As of Tuesday it will be officially relieved of it's duties as my spiffy new, fast and *technologically current* Dell PC arrives. It's nothing cutting edge or overly spectacular but considering I pushed my current PC as long as I had this is a momentous occasion.

Yeah, We didn't get as much as you here in Northern NJ but the coast got walloped! You would have thought it was Christmas morning the way my kids were bouncing off the walls this morning. They got to play out there on the piles the snow plowed pushed up. Last year the auger belt on my snow thrower went and I blew off the repair all warm summer long. I did it yesterday in the cold garage along with a new spark Plug and an oil change. I was shooing a stream of powder at least 50 feet at times. With a good gust of wind it became a nice cloud of snow... usually blowing back in my face! Any way, this snow is making the holiday season a little nicer in my opinion and it happened before Christmas so traveling for most of us here will not be affected.

Call your FSE and see if he can help you diag it.

I have seen my share of bad clusters in Super Duty's over the last few years and as I recall most of them are 2005 model year vehicles. Almost ALL if not ALL had a failure with the accessory delay relay which as we know is integrated into the HEC. This results in the cluster not working, radio and power windows as mentioned. Have you tried to get a replacement lately? The last two I needed took MONTHS to get!

This almost begs the question as to what point so you admit defeat, stop screwing around and replace the housing along with the valve? I assume that most of us at this point are applying Anti-Seize to the valves before installing them? This also begs the question as to why the factory does not after seeing the problems we are having. I am sure they would site cost as the reason but I am sure it would be a lot more cost effective than eventually having to replace all of these housings. Poor design? Let's think this out. Two aluminum parts with an almost press fit subjected to severe heat variations, moisture, carbon, acids and who knows what else. I can't help but ask why the valve to body clearance couldn't have been larger and used o-rings to seal as the EGR valves in the 6.0L used. Cheaper production from less machining and fewer parts? Again, in the end will it have been cheaper than having to replace all of these housings? Looking forward and applying the o-ring concept to EGR valves, were the o-rings not possible due to the heat they are subjected to? Remember that in both the 6.0L and the 6.4L the EGR valve is located on the "cold" side of the coolers. When we see the 6.7L engine the EGR valve will be on the hot side of the coolers to reduce coking. I wonder what surprises lay ahead for us there.