Matt Saunoras

I got something just as good. poison ivy, right arm inside elbow, it's driving me crazy

put an injector and cleaned the turbo in one today. towed in for a no start with the filters totally plugged.

is the spider hard to change? our parts guy has a 99 sonoma and it's the only thing I haven't replaced trying to hunt down a random miss under load. we finally gave up on it because he doesn't wanna pay for a spider assembly. The plugs were never fouled up so it's not overfueling and probably not hurting anything btw he's throwing parts at it in order from cheapest to most expensive, so guess what the only thing left is.

been trout fishing for the last 3 weeks.

let us know what they say

I'm at the end of a road also. I wish you the best of luck in your new position

egr cooler and oil cooler failures should be independent of each other on a 6.4. it's not like the 6.0 where one causes the other thanks for the heads up, I always thought the intake needed to be removed

This is the last straw. Whatever happens tomorrow will determine whether or not I start looking for another job I have a 4.0sohc explorer towed in for a "timing issue" 100k on the clock and an AFTERMARKET WARRANTY. The towing/auto repair company that normally works on cust pay jobs in the area passed this job up and towed it to us!!! RED FUCKING FLAG, not for our service dept though. Diagnosis reveals no compression on cyl 6, all the other cylinders are normal. Pull the intake and notice a large amount of coolant in the intake runner and intake manifold. Obviously a headgasket leak also. Intake valve not seating fully resulting in the no compression, either bent valve or broken valvespring. Simple enough, at the very least the head has to come off for further inspection. cust authorized time to pull engine and determine failed components. Pull engine, mount on stand, and I pull the head, At this point in time the engine is diagnosed with a broken valvespring, leaking headgasket and the #6 cyl wall polished smooth with upper wall rust pitted badly. Needs an long block right? WHOA wait a minute, this warranty isn't gonna pay for long block. They want a quote on replacing one headgasket and one valvespring. They're also upset we pulled the engine because removing the head is an in vehicle repair. Forget about the cyl wall, I'm not even sure that was mentioned to them Then my crack service manager decides he's going to play devils advocate and side with the warranty team. He actually said to me, you can hone that cylinder, I've done it before. I proceeded to ask him if he had mics to measure the wall diameter and taper. I doubt he'll even give the cust the option of putting in a used long block. I said right to his face "I can't believe we are stupid enough to get involved with this" If I have to bandaid this engine back together that will be 2 in 3 months. That's gonna be the end sorry, I'm done ranting. oh yeah and i blew the ram out of the engine crane today. the mighty 4.0L cannot be tamed

I can think of one aftermarket company that makes a 58v "upgraded" version

that's what it is! i knew something was off about the truck

I'd take a phaser/waterpump job any day over what i'm doing now 4.0 sohc 04 explorer. no compression cyl 6. intake valve obviously stuck half open. shit load of coolant blowing into the intake runner. I don't know what happened but aftermarket warranty wants a teardown man i hope that piston hit that valve, i really don't wanna do anything but longblock this turd

To put a round cooler in a late model truck you need the early 03 up-pipe to go with it. Other than that it should bolt right up Now obviously the 03s have less egr flow than all the other years and the coolers aren't as efficient so who knows what the repercussion of putting one in a later truck could be. I did see this message and I believe it's directly due to bulletproof remanning these coolers. What I would like to know is do bulletproofs coolers cool the egr gasses as much as factory cooler. What about the flow rate? I hope they tested all of these factors

Very nice pics. I can't say I've ever worked on a hybrid before, it's about the only thing I'm not certified to work on, I'd like to leave it that way.

There's only one rack and the alignment rack in the back. We have 2 50 foot hoses stuck together and running off my line for now I have a seperator and I have a coiled hose in front of the seperator. It helps, gets about 90% of the water but it'll fill up in about a week. If I'm running any high volume tools it doesn't work as well This building is atleast 55-60 years old and at this point in time every single piece of equipment is half assed to shit I don't know what to do about this place. As long as I work there's no way they'll get rid of me, that's about the only thing I have going my way

Could have had trout for dinner tonight, if i would have kept any of the ones i caught this morning. Hammered them this morning, streams were perfect, overcast skies and light rain. They hit anything that moved in the water

I don't do those recalls but i'm sure the guy that does wouldn't know a respirator if he tripped over it It's only a matter of time before an air tool of mine gets ruined by water in the lines. It's tough knowing you spend money for the best tools a man can buy while your employer skates by on junk equipment

Yeah Fred that's me. Also last week we lost air pressure to the back half of the shop. I guess the lines rusted up so bad they finally restricted shut. We've had a water in the lines problem for as long as i've been there. The whole building is at the end of it's usuable life, I just wish someone would get the ball rolling and move us out of there Luckily for my sake that windstar or repair order doesn't have my name or number associated with it anywhere

We have a windstar that was traded in a while ago (before the rear axle recall) that we use for a parts runner. So the recall comes out and we find that the vehicle needs an axle and is grounded until repaired. So what does the GM decide to do? That's right, we keep driving the damn thing. Run and get parts 5 days a week and the used car manager is driving it home every night. Remember this thing has a cracked axle! So 2 days ago the fucking axle breaks on the road and the uc manager almost wrecks it. It's towed back to the shop where it sits right now. The GM asked yesterday if we can get ford to cover the tow bill. I'm starting to get fucking embarrassed working at this place. I'm never recommending anyone come here for anything. Imagine what would have happened if someone got seriously injured out of this whole deal. I doubt anyone here would have a job right now

I absolutely cannot get my service manager to upsell customer pay work on a warranty job. You don't even know how many rads leave this place leaking and the last job I had needed an upper hose too. Customer paid for that only because I ordered it forcing him to sell it. I don't even think he tells half the customers their rads are leaking and i remember one instance where a used truck was sold with one leaking Everything is documented on my end so when the shit hits the fan they won't have anyone to blame

do you still need to get prior approval under this tsb?

Only radio is the one on my toolbox. Alternative/grunge or classic rock is all that comes out of the speakers Most of the rock stations around here have a lot of overlap so it's all pretty much the same stuff. Occassionally someone will put on country and hide my remote just to mess with me. I cannot even bare a little country music

I dance around like that all day long, so I'd say it's an accurate representation

you've gotta be smart about pulling those bolts out, they're only M8 if it feels like it's going to break, it probably is. i've had to heat more than a few to remove. soaking them and working them back and forth doesn't seem to help i was under the impression that with that socket you would be able to get the top up-pipe bolts out at the high pressure turbo outet without moving the EGR inlet pipe. obviously the e-doc is blocking these bolts from being removed and that socket is not going to fit around it, so the reality is that tool doesn't work as designed i'll see if i can find the original flyer for it and post it up

last week i wheeled myself at full creeper speed into a plow bracket hanging down off the front of a truck. i'm skinny enough i can usually maneuver under a 6.4 4wd without getting caught on anything. nice little lump on my forehead, nothing major