Bruce Amacker

It's definitely on the downhill side. A tight motor gives 450, 350 is borderline, anything under that is bad. Keep your investment low and run it till it won't run. I bet it wouldn't start in a "real" climate. Good Luck! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

One of my favorite quotes is, "An expert is one who does the basics better than anybody else." This is the reason I quit taking tech support calls from my students. They would refuse to do things that took time, like checking fuel pressure under load. They would assume that by listening to the symptoms, I could give them the Silver Bullet fix. PS- I am ANAL about taking fuel samples into a glass jar from the fuel filter on both gas and diesel engines. We have several pickle jars around the shop used just for that. Even on an LOF service, or anything more than a light bulb, I want a fuel sample examined in a glass jar. I too have been bit hard by this and will not EVER forget it. Gas engine, intermittent stall, from a quart of water in the tank, probably 20 years ago and I remember it like yesterday. Good Job. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

105-R0107 Rotunda

Ugh, that throws a wrench into the works. I'd still suggest AE, and buy some used POS like a Brick to do OBD1. OBD1 is so easy that most any scanner does a good job, and they are easily and cheaply available. Good Luck! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

The Genisys is a good tool- not great, and AE is also a good tool. I'd take AE over the Genisys in several areas- PID list, bi-directional abilities, low cost of updates, current (as current) model abilities, and more. The only thing not good with AE is you have to haul a laptop with you on a road test. Bang for your buck, you're not going to top AE. My suggestion is to try them both out for at least a week before you take the plunge. Are either of them perfect? Absolutely not. They (and most aftermarket scanners) are loaded with glitches. Keep in mind you are spoiled by using the best scanner in automotive history, the IDS. Any other scan tool is quite pale in comparison, and especially pale when you start looking at aftermarket scanners. Take a road trip down to Cleveburg and I'll show you both of them. PS Make sure you buy the full blown AE ($800-1000) and not the generic that's $199. http://www.autoenginuity.com/products-scantoolpc.html /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

My back still hurts from those frigging 8D's...... /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Don Schnell of Smoghouse drew that picture (I have permission) and he has interactive software for using it. It is REALLY cool- you take the DVOM lead and put it on the points, flip the switches so there is voltage available, and the DVOM reads the correct voltage. He had it on his website a while back, but now I can't find it. http://www.toolsforeducation.com/index.php He writes some really cool interactive software for diagnosing cars, perhaps you've seen it. It starts out with a work order and a garage, you get the keys and test drive the car to verify the complaint, look up applicable TSB's, perform tests according to the WSM, and repair the car. The steps are so similar to real life it's funny. It's a lesson in following the correct steps in the WSM and you have to do it in the right order or you fail. You may want to e-mail him and ask for a demo disc of what he does. Perhaps he would be generous and allow you to put it on your site. Another source for great pictures is Ralph Birnbaum. He's a graphic artist from Akron and I've known him a long time. You may recognize his art from large corporations like Napa and others who he draws for. He is very prolific and has drawn thousands of high end pictures. He sells some of the older stuff on his website for the amazing low price of $6 each. I've bought hundreds and use them in my programs. Take a few minutes and browse his site: http://picsellation.com/~picsella/Auto_Electric_g74.html Here's couple of samples: Soooo, how much bandwidth am I allowed? I've been doing a lot of uploading lately..... /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

They're bolted to 1/4" aluminum plate, which resonates like a bitch! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

The Bendix air ABS board is also fully functional with faults that can be put in and diagnosed either with the LED's on the module or the A-Com software (which is free from Bendix, BTW). The board hooks to a laptop and has full functionality just like a truck would. If you ask a tech what training he wants, he'll almost always tell you advanced drivability, fuel control, or other high end topics. The problem is, if you hand him a DVOM he can't use it. I wrote an electrical class several years ago that's 16 hours in length and one of our best sellers, Anthony's doing it in Orlando this week for an electric company. (Funny, eh? Teaching electric company employees how to use a DVOM!) The demo boards are an old industry standard. This is the third set I have built. The first were plywood, but I wanted a better look and lighter weight so I built 15 of them from aluminum and ABS plastic. They are light and easily shipped in a crate. The focus of this class is basic DVOM use- volts, ohms, and amps. (Right, Jim?) Learning the K and M scales. Voltage drops. Relays. LOTS of hands-on. We wire circuits with light bulbs and relays in the class, and spend a few hours doing the proper methods of starting and charging systems diag including slow drains. This is a really fun class to do. Even experienced techs give great reviews on this class. Average age of all of my students is probably about 40. Many of them are older than me. Anthony just turned 40, so some of the students are old enough to be his father! I hope I haven't bored you or turned this into a Turbo Training ad... Have a great weekend! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

2005 DT466 (EGR) 2000 DT466E 7.3 PSD 6.0 Carts: Here's a shot of a DT in the trailer when I was setting up the mounting fixtures: Demo Boards; IH NGV Multiplex Board DT466E Demo Board: These are fully functional and have complete bidirectional control with a laptop and MD Fleet. Those HEUI solenoids are NOISY! When you activate the motor spinning the CMP, it sounds like a frigging machine gun in a quiet classroom! Here's a shot of Anthony teaching using Diamond Logic Builder (IH's multiplexing software) in a classroom. He normally does not sit down, but was using his laptop to control the dash functions. Note the dash projected on the screen: The best thing about building those demo boards was what I learned in the process. If I had taken a thousand classes I still wouldn't have learned as much. Wiring those from scratch and figuring out all of the little subtleties was incredible. More incredible is learning firsthand the errors in IH's schematics! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Traitor! There's a traitor in our midst! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

It is very labor intensive to build a cutaway. I've done 6 so far- 7.3, 6.0, 6.4, DT466E, DT466(EGR), and an Allison MD3060. I've also done 5-6 turbos including several VGT's. There's no "magic bandsaw" that you run the whole thing through to slice it open. Most of the time I do the teardown and mark where the cuts go. If it's a larger piece like a cylinder head I take it to my local metal fabrication shop who has a monster bandsaw where it is cut. If it's a smaller piece, I have a bandsaw that will cut up to about 10 inches. If it's a really hard part, like the 6.4 pump head, the regular fab shop can't cut it and I take it to a shop with a Bridgeport where it's done. Once the cuts are done, I take an air grinder and successive finer discs to get rid of the bandsaw marks. Start with 36 grit on an air sander, end up with 220 on a D/A like a body shop uses. Most of the paint is WalMart cans, and I use a LOT of clear paint. All of the aluminum is bead blasted and all of the iron is sandblasted before it gets the final paint. My shop is adjacent to my old repair shop, which has both a glass bead cabinet and a sand blast cabinet. I also have a 10 gallon siphon fed sandblaster for engine blocks and large stuff that are done outside. These engines look terrific, but they will never run again. There's so much sand in crevices, cam followers, oil galleys, etc, that the groan when you turn them over. There's also a lot that goes on behind the scene with getting a cutaway to the class site. I have two trailers, both built to spec- a 5x8 single axle and a 5x10 tandem. Both have options such as double floors, extra crossbeams, bigger brakes, electric winches, custom ramps and holding fixtures to support the engine once it's in the trailer. I had 6 custom carts built that are all the same size so that the holding fixtures inside the trailer can accept any cart. The cutaways weigh from 400-1400lbs depending on which engine/trans it is. I can haul 3 in the 5x10. Both Anthony and I have V8 SUV's that are set up with trailer brake controllers and heavy hitches. He just got back from St. Louis today with a DT. The best part of building a cutaway is how much you learn as you're doing it. Opening up passageways and seeing inside says volumes. I've also built a bunch of demonstrator boards- DT466 fuel system, IH multiplex dashboard, Bendix ABS braking system, etc. All of these are fully functional with all sensor inputs etc, and electric motors to run the CMP and WSS sensors. All of them interface with PC software and have fully bidirectional controls like you're hooked to a truck. Here's some pics that were already up, I'll add some more when I get a chance. BTW, I love cutaways too. Techs are hands on people- they would much rather have a cutaway in class than any book. My books are loaded with full color cutaway pics, too, which really helps out. Have a great weekend! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Hey Guys; I just want to share my recent experience with you. I run my PC's hard. I commonly have 10-15 windows open at any one time, and several of them are usually huge Powerpoint files. I am commonly editing pictures and have a graphics browser open at the same time, and I store over 50,000 photos on my PC for writing purposes. My PC guy has told me for years that the laptops I use are borderline for the work I do. My main PC is a custom built high end Compaq laptop with a 2.1 processor, 2 GB Ram, and 2 hard drives totalling 160GB. I get error messages and lockups and consider a little bit normal. I've been having trouble with Powerpoint lately and decided since my laptop was 2 years old I'd take the plunge and buy a tower. I went to Best Buy and got the biggest, baddest, most powerful HP tower they had- 2.6 quad core Intel processor, 3 GB ram, 720GB HD. This is the bomb! It comes with Vista, as that's all you can get in stores these days. I proudly took my new toy home and began loading all of my programs and files on it. This is about 10 hours with all of the restarts, internet updates, and online registrations that have to take place. Vista is a challenge to get used to. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif Everything is moved around when compared to XP Pro, and it is a constant search to find things that were in a very familiar place. It's like moving into a new house with a completely new look. Better? No, just different. Constant popups from Vista are a real irritant, even when you turn off "Protected Mode". The real problems began when I had troubles with some of my programs- ISIS isn't compatible with IE7, and Vista doesn't support IE6. Ugh! Adobe Acrobat 5 isn't supported by Vista, either, requiring purchase of Adobe 8 as a minimum, which is several hundred dollars. This is not good. I've kept my AOL e-mail address because I've had it so long. (Yes, I hate AOL as much as the rest of the world.) The only version of AOL which is compatible with Vista is 9, which is absolutely LOADED with constant advertising popups and banners. I hate it! After working with Vista for 2 weeks, I had my PC guy come over and try to work out as many bugs as he could. I saved 7 pages of screen captured error messages which took a few hours to get through ($$$). Final Chapter: I am not a quitter, I generally work at something until I am successful. After fighting with Vista for 2 1/2 weeks and getting more frustrated and pissed off by the day, I threw in the towel. This has undoubtedly been the worst 2+ weeks of my life regarding computer problems. I've been unhappy, can't sleep, irritable, pissed off at the world. I went back to BB and they allowed me to return the tower and order a similar tower in XPPro. It will be in in a couple of weeks and I get get back to WORK. I HATE F@(%ING VISTA! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif

Why? If the cab's off the pump comes out with the turbos on. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shrug.gif

Don't unplug the EGR under any circumstances. It's there with a purpose, and a $10,000 fine to go along with disabling it. That's a really quick way to change jobs.... Good Luck! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Franklin Power Products in Franklin, Indiana, about 20 miles south of Indy. I've taught there a couple of times and yes, they were buried in turbos to the tune of 10,000 cores IIRC, stacked as high and far as the eye can see. They are a reman center and are remanning them, though. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

One of my Caribbean connections just bought 6 new Rangers built in Thailand for $14,000 each with 2.5 diesels from Conrico. He also says in his native Trinidad there are 2007 F-250's running around with a 4.2 turbo diesel. He thinks the F's are built in the US. Has anybody heard of that? Check out the specs and the torque ratings. I think converting from Newton meters to ft/lbs is to multiply times .73. That gives 3 diesel engine options with 240-277 ft/lb torque. http://www.conrico.com/project-vehicles/ford/ranger.html "sigh" /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif P.S. This guy has broken trucks up to his armpits and we're talking road trip. Today's grief is a 2006 6.0, 20K, already had new injectors, sounds like they're leaking and aerating the fuel by the IDS balance graph, the turbo impeller shaft is seized, and the EGR was coked open. It's owned by Carnival Cruise Line, who owns a large complex there. No Ford dealers, so no warranty...... /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Keith:You're handling this in a classy way and should be complimented. I don't miss the guy, though. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbup.gif

Hey Guys: I'm told the Alliant Power AP0002 6.0 injector o-ring kit is now including the D-ring and snapring on the HP inlet at the top. It's very cheap and I ordered one, should have it tomorrow. Larry, can you verify this?

Check with IH, too. I get unbelievable differences in price quotes my students tell me from the east and west coasts. It seems Washington state is the worst- IPR's are $400+ there. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

I probably knew the answer to this question many years ago but have dumped that cache to make room for newer stuff. Let's assume these are both Fords, because I know the intakes were different between the IH version and the Ford version. Another minor problem might be the glow plug system- the 7.3 probably has the later bullet system and the 6.9 probably has the blade style system. I know when retrofitting a truck to the bullet system I have to drill a hole or something back there to mount the controller. There was some kind of difference in the intake ports- later engines had a passageway that was plugged with a ball just under the port (or something like that). Just because the gaskets are (supposedly) the same doesn't meant the intakes interchange, even at the port flange. Think as hard as I might, I still can't answer this for sure. Man, if I had a penny for every one of those I had apart..... /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Yes, since PERDELS and CC are relative tests, if you start with 6 weak cyls and 2 really weak cyls, you put in 2 new injectors in the really weak cyls, the 6 weak cyls all of the sudden come into the limelight. To rephrase another way, if you have 6 pulling at 70% and 2 pulling at 50%, the two at 50% get changed. Then the 6 at 70% all look really bad compared to the 2 new ones pulling 100%. Kind like a slacker shop that hires a whiz bang tech. He can make the others look bad..... /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

I prefer to take it at the PCM in case there's a harness issue. Hopefully you have a 104 BOB and a 122 adapter. Good Luck! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

I've PLENTY of both of those that looked fine visually and leaked. Buzz test good? Fill the FF with Stanadyne and see how it runs. If it's better, it's either bad fuel or bad injectors. Like Larry said, most of these need a set when they need one. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif