DwayneGorniak

I did see the notice the day it was released. I'm not even going to comment on it at this point because my will just start to boil. We'll see what happens one night after work when I've had a quite a few to drink though.

LOL. I had it emailed to me. And being that I am of Ukranian descent, I just had to share this little bit of humor. I don't think my mileage is quite that efficient though. I'm more like an alcohol powered funny car.

Proud to be Ukrainian A recent study conducted by Kiev University found that the average Ukrainian walks about 900 miles a year. Another study by the Ukrainian Medical Association found that Ukrainian men drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. This means, on average, Ukrainians get about 41 miles to the gallon. Kind Of Makes You Proud To Be Ukrainian! Whats your mileage???

Yeah, but who are you gonna blame for all the 6.4L engines we see cratered with melted pistons lately? They are all stock. Look at the Sick-0 in my bay. There ain't no Banks or Bullydog decals on that truck nor has there been any mods on it.

Yeah the bag thing must be an Ontario thing. Out here we lots of big jugs. Environment friendly My ass! Go back to fucking Glass and charge a damned deposit for the glass so that it all comes back to be recycled and reused. As far as I am concerned, everything should go back to glass. That's why I only buy beer in bottles. Yeah sure, there would be the initial cost of the start up but it would eventually be better for whole world. Whats the worst thing that could happen if a glass bottle is thrown out in the garbage. It is natural and made of sand for crying out loud. What the hell is our world coming to? Where did they ever fuck this whole process up? Oh yeah, cheap drunken Liberals. Holy crap, I think I'm stating to sound like a curmudgeon.

Oh oh oh, I know the answer to this one. And where could the answer to that take us? To the Navistar Parts wharehouse.

It doesn't take a Banks or a BullyDog sticker to cause that. That ugly little orange Navistar decal creates these issues just fine all by itself. I can't even count how many engines in the past "seven years" I've seen like this. Come to think of it, even the 6.4L is showing the sames symptoms now but on a way more regular basis. Hell, we've done about six 6.4L engines in the last three months from melted pistons, not to mention how many Sick-0's we've done in the last year. I have a Sick-0 in my bay right now with hole in the piston as well. This is such a common scene now, that it just doesn't even fizz on me anymore. Which brings me to the paint jobs on these frickin remans. Holy crap, what do they do, Just drop them in the cheapest tank of Black paint they can possibly get their hands on? i couldn't even get the damned exhaust manifold bolts to start by hand because of the amount of paint those Sum bitchin holes. I got so pissed off with it, that I finally said Fuck it and rammed them in with the 3.8 impact. And because of the track record of these remans I now have named this particular black paint that Ford used as: "Al-QAIDA BLACK". I mean hell, they are an Improvised Explosive Devise are they not? In fact they are nothing more than a road side bomb.

I guess you have to have a taste for it. I myself do like Corona and lime. But I also love MGD, Labatt lite, Labatt blue, ahhhh hell I just love beer. http://www.forddoctorsdts.com/public/style_emoticons/default/cheers.gif http://www.forddoctorsdts.com/public/style_emoticons/default/cheers.gif http://www.forddoctorsdts.com/public/style_emoticons/default/cheers.gif http://www.forddoctorsdts.com/public/style_emoticons/default/cheers.gif http://www.forddoctorsdts.com/public/style_emoticons/default/cheers.gif http://www.forddoctorsdts.com/public/style_emoticons/default/cheers.gif

And to add to Larry's coments: How many reflashes have we had for the Sick-0 now? 550? 650? I don't think the 6.4 will be far behind that in another seven years.

That's the spirit. Just make sure you document the shit out of that R.O. If they decide on a short block, make it very clear that that was all that was approved and it was their decision so that when they kick it back, it ain't on your shoulders. I just went through this shit a month ago on a 6.4L as well. Should have been a long block with new injectors, but nooooo, just replace the short block and one injector I was told. 350Km's later she blowed up again and finally got the long block.

There's hole, there's a hole, there's a hole in the piston I can see. There's a crack in the nozzle and gouge in the cylinder and a hole in the piston I can see. There's a Nazi saying no and and a crack in the nozzle and a gouge in the cylinder and a hole in the piston I can see. Yup, I'm right. This sounds so familiar that I'm pretty sure I've sung this song before. In fact I have on in my bay right now. Good luck with that fucker Chris, I'm going back to drinkin. I suggest you start too if you haven't already.

IDS is not supposed to be going away. Only the VCM is going away after 2012. The software for IDS is what Ford will keep manufacturing seeing as it has been extremely successful and makes total sense. There are benefits to this system. If Ford only makes software for scan tools, we will be able to purchase our own laptops as many of us are already doing at better prices than what we would get through I-connector or Ford. If the generic adapters are available through tool dealers, eventually they will compete and the prices should eventually come down......I hope. But all in all, I think it will be a good system. They will most likely just have their certain requirements for the sytem to work as they already do.

Most dealers don't even care. Because most of them are flat rate. Therefore if a tech has to wait for a scan tool they see it as the tech losing money not them. But they don't seem to see that an efficient tech makes for an efficient dealership paycheck through the labour charged out. Which goes back to my theory about most dealerships: "Minimal Investment and Maximum Profit" or "Get The Tech To Invest And Reap The Profits". Seems more and more like the trend these days.

When I was in school a couple of months back our instructor told us that the VCM will only be supported till 2012. At that point in time Ford will be getting out of the Diagnostic tool business and creating only diagnostic software such as the IDS being that it has been so successful. He said we will be going to a generic interface that we will be able to acquire form local tool dealers and that it will be allot simpler to deal with.

I told ya to prepare for it, didn't I? My ass still has battle scars from the last whoopin I got too. Try not to picture that folks.

I have gotten a couple of engines with those same invoices. And they wonder why Why warranty costs"LOOK" like they're through the roof. Have you noticed that the prices of short blocks has gone down though? It's like they are trying to push nothing but short blocks lately.

Holy freakin DEF messages Batman! Geee.....do you think they're trying to tell the drivers something or what? My head hurt just listening about all those messages.

Exactly. This happens everywhere. And this is one of the huge reasons this topic burns my ass. We go to school and get preached to about what is right and what is wrong. We all damned well know what is right and what is wrong. But when your paycheck is signed by a "Salesman" controlled industry, we all know how important honesty is. For us technicians, our hands are tied. This is where we need Ford to back us up and make this shit black and white. Right now all this gray shit is literally for the shits. This is why we need we an IDS system that automatically reports the proper info to the proper people. It would have to be a system that would force everyone to be honest. And as scary as that theory is, we're almost there from what I can tell. And if there would not have been so much greed and dishonesty in all these past years, we wouldn't be here today talking about this shit. It has gotten to the point where all the dishonest people have brought this upon themselves. And it's blatant obvious that Ford knows this. What really suck is that I'm not sure if Ford knows who is all on the same page as them because there are completely dishonest techs out there as well who add even more to this big ass nightmare.

Isn't that the freakin truth?

This is a system that I will always wear rubber gloves when working near it or around it.

Anyone seen the symbol for "Contaminated Diesel Exh Fluid"? Hmmm.....gives a whole new meaning to WIF sensor. I wonder if it's based on specific gravity or buoyancy or who knows what else. Maybe when some Jack ass pisses in the tank, it will be able to tell them how dehydrated they are. LOL.

Coool! So, will this thing spit out overfueling on cyl# whatever codes or something similar?

We are asking Ford to do something we won't? Speak for yourself. Just because you won't do it doesn't mean that any of the rest of us won't. It sounds like you are implying that it's O.K. to preach the gospel online but when you go to work and get paid by a pimp, it's O.K to suddenly become a cheap whore because that's who signs your paycheck. And just because some of us may work and get paid by Pimps or whores themselves doesn't mean that we all agree with it. Sure there are some folks out there that love be cheap whores but there are also others who don't.

I can tell you that if I owned a Sick-0, I myself sure as hell wouldn't send my wife with my kids on a cross country trip in the damned thing if I only patched it with a bandaid warranty fix. I can truly feel confident in my ethics because I already practice these ethics with my own vehicles. But then again, I am a fussy sum bitch. If my trucks need any little thing, they damned well get it because I cannot afford for them to break down on the road away from home. And we don't decide if the customer has the proper funds. That is up to the customer to decide and for us to help him out the best we can. Again, you can only make recommendations and let the customers decide what is best for them. If you don't make the recommendations you almost always wind up the situation where the customer is back for a repair and tearing your service departments heads off because it should have been fixed right the first time. I can't count how many times I have seen this over the years, especially when it comes to the Sick-0.