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Were the scum inside them as they fell off the cliff? I'd hate to see what they hit, if anything.

Hi Jeff, Sorry to hear that you've been through so much, but good to hear you're still with us. I sympathize about the tinnitus, I have it as well, though not as bad as you. About your tinnitus, do you know what the decibel reading of it is? I had gone to an audiologist two years ago, as part of a big issue with mold infestation in my house, I was sick for a full year. The audiologist ran a whole gamut of tests on me, luckily I have no hearing loss, which floored him, but I do have what he termed "moderate" tinnitus. My decibel reading was 7 db. He explained that may not sound like much, but when it's "internal" it's loud. I need background noise and a fan at my bedside to sleep properly, and sleeping and my first 15 to 30 seconds in the morning I have NO tinnitus. Mine started after a bicycle crash when I was 8, when I slammed the side of my head on the ground. He mentioned another patient that had severe tinnitus, due to an illness. Her reading was 25 db. From what he told me, she was ready to end it, as the noise was unbearable. At some point, she put pressure by mistake near her ear on her neck, and the sound stopped in one ear. They found the damaged blood vessels and did a bypass, and restored the blood supply to her inner ears and she's free of the sound. Oh, how I wish......

I've seen it in a fleet truck, 200k on a 5.4 3v. The number 1 plug LOOSENED and backed out just enough for the thing to start detonating and it blew 3/4 of the bullet end off the plug, then started missing when the coil boot burned up from the combustion. The plug screwed right out, new coil and plug, checked all the rest of them, all were loose, (replaced) and it's still going down the road.

Is the IDM full of water? We used to see tons of them after heavy rains with full IDMs. Some would barely limp in, others towed. Pulling the coolant botte out of the way, taking the IDM out and shaking it, you could hear the water sloshing inside.

101.5 at work, hit 107.5 here at home. In my bays it hit 96. Kinda gave up and left a loaded F550 7.3 aft axle tank to pull on my back tomorrow. Replacing it with a plastic tank. Miserable. I really hope their right about next week's high temps.

mmm, real tomatoes for a change...... I see the corn growing in some of the fields around here, it got VERY tall in the past week.

Its felt like we've been an oven for a week already, and it's getting hotter? Saturday, here at home, was so humid and so hot, every time I went outside, it felt as if you were opening your oven. And add to that, almost 5 inches of rain. Once I get home from work, I really don't want to go outside again.

2004 F350 5.4, started as leaking head gaskets (oil). Pulled the motor, as it had so much rot (plow truck) and after disassembly and sending heads out, heads warped, exhaust valves leaking. Needs chains, guides, tensioners, appears to be overheated as cyls 2,3,4 all show scuffing.. Customer now opted for crate motor. Still gets new manifolds, trans lines, ps lines, a/c lines. Should be putting in tomorrow.

Oh man, older Hyundai and Mitsu precat melts. What fun. But, they don't beat late model Nissan 2.5s, they begin to break up, and the design of the motor causes it to inhale chunks of the matrix back into the motor. In short order you have trashed rings and destroyed cylinder walls. I've probably sent a dozen of our customers that HAD them back to Nissan, they all got engines and primary cats under warranty.

Alex, You're not. I'm one as well. Only very few old cars I find interesting, and the ones that I have interest in, I could never afford. That place is a time capsule.

Hey guys Looking for a tailgate for my Lightning. Had a massive brain fart over last weekend and backed up (gate down) into a semi trucks duallies at our local recycle center. DUH. If anyone knows of a vermilion (paint code E4) from a '99-04 ('04 heritage) flare side F150 that's in good to excellent shape, please let me know! Going to look at one that's in need of paint due to it being metallic red. TIA

Aaron, True, but yet we do suffer anyway. When nothing is coming through the door, we get sent home.

A local Nissan store around here did that. They had A techs that would make 60-80 hours or more a week, while the B-D would be doing all warranty work. And their used car guys would turn high hours. When the A's complained about how much the used car guys got, the used car guys were let go. I knew one of the used car guys. He really liked working there too. Then they went to the "team" system. It was a simple averaging. They'd average all the hours and divide it up amongst the number in the team. Completely screwing guys making hours, and sticking A techs with total bs warranty work. I believe they still use it now. Last I heard, most guys at best were getting between 40 and 50 tops, working 6 days a week.

hey guys, since I was curious about this, I've been following the thread. I have a 2008 F550 that came in today, the driver (fleet) said it "overheated" and added 3 gallons of mixed universal junk, and then drove it, the level dropped again and it again "overheated", he added another 2 gallons. By the time I got it today, it's halfway down the degas bottle, I put it under pressure which dropped, and the level disappeared. No currently visible external leaks. The oil level is about 15" over the full mark on the stick. The ccv separator is full of gooey black sludge. I'm guessing so far, the front cover probably has cavitated. This unit has repeatedly come in low on coolant, averaging a gallon per 5-7k service. I see new upper and lower hoses, I'm guessing done at the Ford store on one of the services we didn't see. The rad is original, the best I can tell. What would be the best approach with this? If we get the job, it may get brought to a Ford store.

Had in my bay, but customer is going to try and get it warrantied at 99k: 2009 6.4, check engine light and no power. Codes for 1-3 EGT, and "thermal event" in exhaust, cyl 7 misfire, amongst a few others. NO coolant, added 4 gallons mixed to it. Rad leaking. Horizontal EGR cooler covered with coolant crust, liquid coolant appearing at forward gasket point, could be external leak from feed pipe though. Front cover/front seal oil leak. Trans puking black fluid from vent. Front brakes on steel, rotors just touched. Belts squealing on start and fuzzy looking. Off it went. Or if it turned into a shytstorm. Operator of truck has generic code scanner and would repeatedly clear the codes to keep it having power, until it shut down and had to be towed. He did this on another sister truck with leaking rad, it would derate, he'd clear codes and kept going until engine grenaded on highway. Went to Ford, expecting warranty, DENIED, they had to pay it....

You have to catch the sales guy in his bull shyte. The tbird motor that they did for us, after it was installed and we had all the issues, he showed up. He comes over, we all tell him it's running too hot, it makes too much noise, and is down on power. I made the comment along the lines of what do you expect from junk. He says "Do you KNOW what these things go through?" In a very condescending tone. I looked at him, looked down at the motor they just did (and painted) and picked through the paint and pulled off a HUGE chunk of dirt/sand, and put it right in his face. "If it went through SO much, WHAT'S THIS!?" He shut up and everyone laughed at him.

Tuesday hit 86. Yesterday, it was 72 at work, 20 miles inland,it was 96. SO thankful for the sea breeze. The storms rolled through last night, I thought we were back in hurricane Sandy again, the wind at night was incredible. So much lightning, cool to watch.

Three things for Monday. 2007 F250 4x2, steering shock, 4 shocks, RF wheel bearings, headlight and oil change, oooh.... 2009 F150, complete front brakes, ground till pistons blew out of calipers, complete rear brakes, pistons fell out of calipers. oil change (maybe), it only has 30,000 miles on oil change, and maybe tires, since two have been routinely driven flat. Pest control company who's drivers don't give a shit. And, just what I always wanted, a 2003 PT Loser, 45,000 miles, mysterious intermittent loss of oil pressure, engine runs bad and makes noise, water pump pouring. Pulled leaking oil pan this afternoon and it was perfectly clean inside. This POS has already blown a heater core, needed complete front end (arms, tie rods, bearings) and a complete a/c system. What a pile of junk.

Hi Jim, Hope everything works out well for you. You sound positive, keep it up! Universal health care, Canadian style is NOT what we're getting with Osamanocare. I wish it was. We're all going to be paying through the nose for nothing down here.

The Eco 1.0 is kinda copying my pressure washer, a Honda GC with an internal oil covered timing belt. Go figure. I wonder if they use the "resin" camshaft and rockers too!

Ah, ok. When I went to the dodge site, I really didn't look, other than they make such a big deal of it. Their rear suspension is much like the Chevrolet truck suspension of the 60s.

The 2013 Ram has no coils. 4 corner air. It levels and lowers on highway to reduce drag. I wonder how much weight the tanks, compressors, lines etc add over regular suspension. http://www.ramtrucks.com/en/2013/ram_1500/#suspension

Couldn't get on at ALL today, we use the fordinstallersupport.com access. I couldn't get to the sign in screen.

So, today I had some use for my plugs, have a 2008 F350, 6.4. My first rad on a 6.4, belts, hoses, tstats, amongst a ton of other things. WHAT were they thinking when they made these things? Especially when an idiot runs plow wiring, accessory wiring and whatnot through the damn cooling stack and fan shrouds. I had the rad almost ready to pull, everything plugged, barely any coolant/atf on the floor. Then my boss had to help. He yanks off my plugs as the rad comes out, then tips it to the passenger side, so, I had a huge mess to clean up. I think I hate the mess more than the actual job. And of course, our Ford store doesn't have both parts of the lower hose in stock, nor the idler pulleys. Then along the way I found the left CAC tube nearly rotted through at those stuck on pads.

I feel for you there. I try to keep all kinds of various caps, plugs, fittings, etc so I don't make a mess or clean things, and when they disappear, it's beyond frustrating. I've learned, unfortunately, over the years, to put anything I think someone might want to use, borrow, steal or clean gets put into my box and locked up. It makes a cluttered mess at times. I end up putting everything away each day, and taking it out, everything is separated, sorted and boxed.