Jim Warman

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In all honesty , Kieth... my wife insists that it must be a long time since I last had the ability to "see" anything.. I ain't no spring chicken and this particular love machine has a really long range fuel tank (if you catch my drift). All the same, judging by the size of the park aid sensor, the pipe looks to be a whisker over 2.75" (about 70mm or a little over 1/8th of a cubit if you are as old as people consider me). The cheezy looking bell on the end maybe 3 and a quarterish inches (about 2.675e-18 parsecs if you watch too much science fiction). Not much compared to what we got used to with the 6.4.

Te cast oil panis an interesting turn... but that exhaust tip??? Aside from it's fugliness one has to wonder what the expected temps during a regen are going to be like... and is it just me, or is the diameter a tad "lacking"?

Stress.... that's when the mind over-rides the bodies natural tendency to choke the living shit out of someone that desparately needs it... Someone sent me this the other day - It has offered me moments of great comfort. ACHIEVING INNER PEACE AND SERENITY Just in case you are having a rough day, here is a stress management technique recommended in all the latest psychological journals. The funny thing is that it really does work and will make you smile. 1. Picture yourself lying on your belly on a warm rock that hangs out over a crystal clear stream. 2. Picture yourself with both your hands dangling in the cool running water. 3. Birds are sweetly singing in the cool mountain air. 4. No one knows your secret place. 5. You are in total seclusion from that hectic place called the world. 6. The soothing sound of a gentle water fall fills the air with a cascade of serenity. 7. The water is so crystal clear that you can easily make out the face of the person you are holding under water. There!! See? It really does work! You're smiling already!!

David.... I think you'll find that the better a tech is, he becomes less comfortable with his abilities. Other techs struggle with a diagnosis but this man stands apart... his diagnosis comes quite easy for him.... comparatively speaking, anyway. And this generates a dilemma regarding confidence. "If that guy is having trouble, what am I missing???". Anyway, I think the thrust was in regards to the guy that Tony saw.... Sidebar... where I came from.... it would have been about 1973ish... I was young, impetuous, newly married and engrossed in recreational pharmacology... the engine was a 390 4V in a M250 (M200? M20? it was a fucking long time ago). Chasing an engine noise, I quoted that I did an R&R on the fuel pump to check for play in the arm/spring... Somebody was sharp enough to call "bullshit". Along about then, I decided that if I told the truth, I would never have to try and remember anything... That day, I realized that I had no integrity... without honesty, I was nothing... I have spent the rest of my life trying to regain what I lost on that day. There's a little more than you needed to know... all of us have feet made of clay.

I am not replying to anyone in particular... but read and think carefully. What happens if you say you replaced a branch tube and it turns out that you are a lying son of a bitch who didn't replace a branch tube? "well - it was warranty....". Does that mean fucking one guy over is different from fucking another guy over? Let's say we see someone commit fruad. If we remain silent, we are aiding and abetting... we are committing fraud right along with guy number one... If we see someone inan adjacent bay commit fraud and don't say anything, there's a chance our employer can be charged with fraud... and we will be painted with the same brush.... "Oh, yeah... aren't you one of the lying bastards?". The world is in a great deal of trouble because you cannot trust the people you are dealing with. What the fuck is that? And we are going to sit back and allow this shit to happen around us? Muck Fe!!!! In the news lately.... duck hunters in western Canada are gonna get fucked over on account of a video they posted on you tube... I hope they get their hides hung on ths shed and tanned. A father video tapes his 7 year old driving a car.... hang that man out to dry.... A mother drags her kid through a store by the "leash"... she might be the sanest one amongst us all. But it still looks like the lunatics are running the asylum.... And we are discussing THEFT and FRAUD as a means of income????

Like the sign in the restroom.... we aim to please.... you aim, too - please

I have replaced one... after STC replacement and before installing the cover, a retest showed a damaged solder joint at the left side of the STC block. IIRC, the rear cover on this unit was cracked in the event. This is NOT a pleasant task. If you bend a branch tube back - it doesn't take much to check the solder joints...

Blurry??? Now you have me wondering who has what for a problem Actually, that is on <auto> and I read a user review that warned about blurry pics. There is a work around that I might have to get used to utilizing presets. 2002 PC/ED lists "part of Pressure Test Adapter Kit 014-00761". I'm halfway through my holiday and I already ventured into the shop to take the pic.. I am loathe to make a return trip if I can avoid it.

Aaron, I think Alberta is a leader when it comes to paid holidays... Between federal stat holidays and the province, we get one day nearly every month. Very few of them are limited to public employees (though they do get pampered - BECAUSE OF UNION AFFILIATIONS!!!). CUPW and CUPE are poxes on the country and rob their members of initiative and pride. Larry, like I mentioned in another thread... what can be easier than metric? I was born and raised in an imperial measure world - yet I seem to have a better grasp of metric than many young 'uns... young 'uns that will say something is four inches long but can't hold their fingers one inch apart (go figure). Add that the 12oz notation on the can is for nothing more than some misbegotten popular demand... but my standard line about "getting this body by lifting weights - 12 ounces at a time" works so much better with that notation. Brad... back in 1983 an incident driven by metric conversion happen in the skies over Canada. Instead of basing their measurements on one system or the other, the refuelling crew used conversion formulas to compute the fuel required by an Air Canada flight. A TV movie of the event was made and aird in the last few years. I am an avid woodworker and I have learned several very real truths in the pursuit. Use only one tape measure for any project (a story stick is better - google the idea). Two identical tape measures can harbour discrepancies. Do NOT convert from one system to another - if you are working in inches - work in inches- shit or get off the pot. Even the best algorithm is fraught with generalizations and subject to mistakes in arithmetic. At any given time. I might look at something and consider that it looks like about an inch... or maybe 25 and a half mms.... give or take. Unfortunately, there is over a 1/16th inch difference between a meter and 40 inches.

I had considered a diode before I came up with the high mount idea... without knowing the current load expected on the circuit it's a crap shoot.

This is with the Canon SD1200

Aww, c'mon Dwayne... I needed to drag this out of you. Anyway, don't worry, they're gonna be rubber bullets While the 6.0 was built to replace the 7.3, it was designed to a whole different criteria... one we weren't accustomed to and one we are still having troubles getting accustomed to. I think we've talked about the number of head bolts in the past... But can we imagine how big and heavy7 this package is going to be if they tried squeezing 8 more full sized head bolts into the same area? More full sized head bolts would be ideal... but it can't happen and keep the package useable for it's intention (i.e. - will it fit between the wheels, can we close the hood and will a usable portion of the vehicle weight be on the rear wheels?). I don't think the 6.0 headbolts are all that bed per se... but it would be nice if there were more of them - I think we mentioned that part already. If they were grossly remiss, it is because they neglected to include a position sensor for the VGT. Every time we overstress a headbolt, it becomes easier to overstress it. If they had included a VGT position sensor, they could have mapped a torque limiter strategy of some sort... defuel, open the EGR, something/anything to reduce the boost.... unfortunately, I'll bet this would make the engine a bigger piece of shit in most peoples eyes... Don't get me wrong - this would be a good summation. Nobody wants a motor that will deliver random instances of power loss... Wait a minute... even without the VGT position sensor we have random instances of no power.... Holeeee Sheeit!!! So, to increase power, we needed to flow more air... and that necessitated 4 valves per cylinder... not much real estate left for injectors... especially for injector coils... injector coils operating at half the voltage of a 7.3. Stiction? In retrospect, I'm not surprised - but, we've seen that we don't have enough room for more head bolts... we chewed up what we had for room with more valves and now the rocker arms just about hit the injector coils - which are just small enough to be too weak to handle some spools.. especially those that are well planished to the ends of the bores. Oil cooler? Let's compare cutaways before we brag up the 6.4. I can't vouch for parts interchageability between the 6.0 and the 6.4.... but pretty much all of the design elements are there. Valve train driven off the back of the crank (anyone realize that this reduces timing variation due to crankshaft torsional flexing?), main bearing girdle (what you guys call a bedplate)... connecting rods, pistons and such - all of them cut from the same cloth and borne of the same manufacturing technology from all appearances. Rocker arms? I have no doubts that the engineers dearly wish they'd come up with 6.4 design rockers in time to implement them into VT365 production - hind sight is 20-20. One very important thing we are overlooking. The 7.3 was a PRODUCTION engine. Were it not for EPA, we'd still be working on them under warranty... The 6.0 was designed with it's soul purpose as being a STOP-GAP engine. We were foolish enough to believe that this was the shape of things to come (face it, if Ford told customers to buy an engine that is predictably obsolete... how many would get sold?). But look at the situation. They knew pretty much exactly when the 6.0 was going to die - even before it was born. From all appearances, the 6.4 stood a chance of being "ported over" to SRC technology in the Ford stable until big business got in the way. I see ITEC using the 6.4 for many years to come. Fuel economy is something you didn't mention. 7.3s did better than 6.0s and they do better than 6.4s. But the idea is "acceptable" fuel economy with emissions that meet or exceed requirements. The criteria has to be met before we can worry about the "nice shit". In the 80s and the 90s, we saw that the technology available lagged far behind the technology required when we discussed gasoline engines. We've been at that point in time with diesels for a while now... And I don't see that changing for a while. Field testing new stuff will never equal putting stuff in the field and waiting and watching. Anyway... for my dime, I might opine that it would be nice if they could find a better way to do something... but for me to call something a piece of shit because of it's design indicates that I have a better way of doing it. I don't. I can say "Let's revert to the 7.3" - but that is a giant leap backwards. Yes, the 7.3 was dependable and trouble free. But it was also "dirty"... (ever wonder what happened to the air cooled Beetle engine? The 351C... 351M/400? and on and on?). You wouldn't believe the heartaches we had through the 70s.. tetra-ethyl lead was banned from gasolines.... the technology for unleaded gasolines was in it's infancy - and it was BAD... EGR valves were introduced - we'd never seen them before and, for a while, the only thing we could figure out to do was to disconnect them. Engines with bundles of vacuum hoses damned near as thick as your wrist... ported vacuum valves, vacuum delay valves, vacuum lines with orofices placed in them (ever notice nifty blue, green, red vacuum connectors instead of good old black?), vacuum amplifiers, ported vacuum, manifold vacuum, venturi vacuum... Bad design? Probably... Pieces of shit? Nope - we didn't have anything else to replace it with... If you don't have anything better, how can the only stuff you have be shit? FWIW.. I saw my first EcoBoost commercial last night... anyone want to start a pool? Don't wrestle with a pig... you're both gonna get diry and he likes it.

Why is the 6.0 a total piece of shit? EGR system? Without it you don't have a streetable engine. VGT turbo? Without it you have zip for driveability. One thing we have seen is the sheer number of diesel pick ups on the road. People that never "needed" a truck like this before.... but the western world has always been subject to fads when it comes to choosing automobiles. The 7.3 may have been better suited to the current fad in that it doesn't have some of the delicate controls that the 6.0 has... but the 7.3 is ill suited to the current fad due to shortcomings in tailpipe emissions. Tuners.... let's all add tuners to our trucks... screw the atmosphere, anyway - our grndchildren can just learn how to breathe whatever we choose to leave them? Somebody has to look out for us... I guess it might as well be us....

Actually.... litres per 100kms isn't French crap... and I would expect that it is a measure that should be second nature to Canadians. We have bought gasoline (or diesel) by the gallon since 1981... nearly 30 years ago.... Yet I see young'uns discussing miles (a measure they aren't familiar with) per gallon (another measure they aren't familiar with). Where everyone screws up is in the conversions.... we're measuring distance in KMs... we measure gas in litres... yet, for some strange and inexplicable reason, people are hell bent on converting the litres to gallons - converting the KMs to miles and then using two imperfect numbers to arrive at what they believe is their fuel consumption. The metric system isn't difficult to learn - hell, some of us old timers are even billingual to a great extent. Where the problem arises is peoples reluctance to embrace the system... Quick!!!! What's the next fractional drill bit up from 15/64? What wrench size is next up from 19/32? (That's an old "Henry Ford" size... works out to 15mm ish). Atmospheric at sea level is 1 bar... 100kPa.... water freezes at 0 and boils at 100 - IT DOESN'T GET ANY EASIER THAN THIS!!!!

Ideally, the level would remain static... but it wont because there is no real "ideal" in a machine like this. But at the same time, I'm not going to worry about it... We will generally see the level go down as pressure builds - because of the compressability of gaseous factions trapped in the system and entrained or perhaps emulsified into the coolant as well as the forced expansion of rubber goods. If we leave the cap off the degas bottle, we will generally witness the thermal expansion of the coolant. Let's not forget the water pumps effect on some of this stuff, too. Ever notice, "back in the day" you could squish more coolant into a crossflow rad by revving the engine? Vertical flow rads wouldn't?

OK... finally had time to take a look at your circuits. I assume you are talking about ckt 810 RD-LG???? Why not tie into ckt 1456 RD-LB going to the high mount stop lamp? The only caveate would be of this is a sensed voltage or if it actually has to be a working current that *may* give the SJB hiccups. There's often more than one way to skin a cat...

How about a relay?

Being a liquid, coolant can't be compressed... you can pressurize it... but you can't change it's volume. Now.... if there is a measurable amount of air entrained into the liquid, you might be able to measure the change in the volume of the emulsification - but it will be the air that is compressing - not the liquid. But, a funny thing happened on the way to the bar mitzvah... the liquid warmed up and expanded... And, like Don said, when the pressure built up, the hoses got "bigger"... In an ideal system, there wont be any air.... but the cooling system and the dynamics of the engine preclude any assumption of "ideal". Hot spots can flash coolant into steam .... vibrations can cause localized cavitation .... Hmmmm, time to install a clear hose for degas?????

How does IDS run on it?

I don't have any problem finding THAT TSB... However, at one point I DID find an authority for changing the condenser. I recall this quite well since the truck that I changed the condenser on was the one I lowered on my hoist with the door open.. Did you know that an aluminum ladder with a plastic top step can cause over $1600 damage to a crew cab Super Duty? It makes an amazing jack stand. But, now that you mention it, the passage I recall may have been in a version of the online WSM. I wonder if I could coax the warranty clerk into searching for the RO hard copy????

The part I like is "Is it safe? I am assuming so.". Some electrical engineer felt the need for a thermal limiter device in the motor housing.... I probably wont try to second guess him (did you know you can start a fire with steel wool and a 9 volt battery?). I always wonder why people leave out that one word when they state "it hasn't caught on fire" - <YET>. My father in law was an ex-trucker/gentleman farmer. It wasn't rare to see glass fuses wrapped in cigarette tinsel (tin foil) on some of his iron... always good for a laugh...

From what I can see/prove the solvent is purged from the system... From memory (ours is the Cliplight Flushworks) - the flush process should be performed for 15 minutes. The purge procedure should be performed for 30 minutes. This appears to be more than adequate for removing all the solvent from the system. Once you set them machine up for the flush or purge, you can leave it semi-attended while you do other things. (I don't really like the idea of "unattended" for some stuff). What spurred us into getting the machine was that Ford started denying condensers... At one point, there was a TSB for SuperDuties that covered the pooched desicant bags that allowed for replacing the condeser if a flush machine wasn't available - you can't find that TSB any more.

If there is anything that Dwayne and I agree on - it is the 6.8.... Maybe all you need to do is compare the price of an oil change.... I know a few guys that are having very good luck with their 6.4s - but thelr maintenance costs are through the roof compared to a gaspot...

I've never been able to procure the pancake filters... I see them catalogued all over the place... but it seems like nobody stocks them or can get them or what-ever... We did get a flush unit... the solvent stinks to high heaven (I direct our guys to use the provided breathing filter - ultimately their choice, but it amazes me to see somebody insist on using nitrile gloves because of the carcinogens only to.... but that's another thread). Anyway, the flush unit has a lenghty air purge process to it and it does remove the solvent when performed properly (never hurts to give it an extra 5 minutes, either). Naturally, one is going to remove the receiver drier or suction accumnulator from the system... An orofice tube system would have offered some protection but an expansion valve system will generally allow crap to go everywhere. What you need to do is talk to who-ever is in charge of your equipment purse strings... You can't work without adequate tools. In a case like this, it doesn't take many fuck ups to have paid for the proper tools, anyway. There are places you can come up with a viable work-around... this isn't one of them. FWIW, most of our techs have had the pleasure of using our flush machine... we have had zero for problems regardng legacy contamination of the system.