Kyle E. Grathwol

Thanks for the link Jim but that isn't it. I agree that it is not rocket science but I don't want to re-invent the wheel when we could learn a lot from you guys who do it all the time. My guys work on heavy equipment mostly. I was hoping to get through the batch of 6.0's that we have without pulling any heads. But.... Thanks for your time and help everyone.

Hmmmm. I could have sworn it came from here but I will take your word for it. Thanks Keith.

Quite a while ago (maybe even 2 years) someone posted a detailed procedure complete with pictures on how to remove the cab on a Super Duty with a 6.0L. I searched the forum but haven't been able to find it. Can anyone point me to it? Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi guys, I thought this article may interest you. Read this first http://www.dailytech.com/Research+Reveals+Internet+Black+Holes/article11431.htm and then go here http://hubble.cs.washington.edu/ The seond link link takes a while to load. The first website Daily Tech is an excellent website no matter what your interests. They have some good articles on automotive tech also.

Quote: I apologize if you felt that my rant was directed at you. I was simply venting about how FoMoCo makes all of our lives more difficult sometimes than it needs to be. No need to apologize, I didn't feel that way at all but thanks any way. You may want to consider italics or underlining when making a point unless you are really pissed THEN USE ALL CAPS. When caps are used it is assumed that you are yelling. Just a suggestion. Quote: I hope we can stop our pissing match and go back to helping each other out again. Absolutely. I never was pissed Jeff so I'm sorry if it came across that way.

Quote: Certainly we haven't crossed any "legal" boundaries, at least not yet The only boundaries I was concerned with were the boundaries of this forum. Quote: We're THINKING about ways to regain something we've already had for the past several years. It used to be legal to smoke weed (so I am told). What concerned me the most with your post is your ability to rationalize what you are doing. Quote: That would require there actually being a LAW against THINKING, which is all were doing. We're THINKING about ways to regain something we've already had for the past several years. Were not talking about modifying or hacking software, just to understand how it generates a code we need to do our jobs. You gotta be kidding me. This is all for the poor customer who drove 60 miles on a holiday and you could not get a code? You only want to know how to do it? Don't get me wrong Jeff, I could care less if you crack every code Ford has, more power to you if you can but some forums really frown on this sort of thing. Again, your post is all about rationalizing what you are doing. Maybe it is an age difference thing but I have a hard time with what you are saying. My apologies to you Aaron. I didn't mean to turn your thread into a pissing match.

Quote: I see that you are from Ohio, where are you at? Sandusky. It's between Cleveland and Toledo. I see you are from Michigan...and that's too bad. Just kidding Larry. I couldn't let that one slide.

Quote: Kyle be careful, I'm 40+ and not a spring chicken anymore I'll be 46 next month. Geez that sounds old.

Quote: Here we can discuss all kinds of things without "promoting" them (unlike fmcdealer). This is after all a PRIVATE forum. I would like Keith's opinion on this sort of thing. If he jumps into this thread and gives his blessing to discuss things of this nature then so be it. To me it's like discussing how to break into someone's house or hack a home wireless network. You can say that it is just conversation but..... Some time ago there was a post on how to get some particular Ford software to run on XP home (if I remember correctly). That would be a noble undertaking. You would not be cracking any passwords or breaking an EULA you would just be modifying your own OS (which you paid for) to run the Ford software. Don't interpret this post as me being preachy. I am a guest in this forum. I worked for a Ford heavy truck dealer years ago but Keith let me in as a fleet mechanic. I don't want to disrespect him or his forum by talking about things that are flat out illegal. It could be that I blew this code of the day thing way out of proportion but usually when you see the words figure out and password in the same sentence it only means one thing.

It very well could be a simple formula...if you know the formula or algorithm. It could be amazingly simple or it may take a stadium full of Opterons running 24/7 to crack it. I started to elaborate on some things but deleted it because this sort of thing is illegal and we would not want to promote illegal activities on this forum now would we?

Quote: Kyle are you really the GEEKY type or just really friggin smart? Well I dropped out of college for computer science in 1981 and went to diesel school because I loved engines. Based on that decision I made..how smart could I possibly be? (I kick myself once a week for that decision). As far as being smart goes, you younger guys don't know what you have with today's resources. If you have an internet connection then you can be as smart as you want to be. This subject could be it's own thread.

Quote: What most people don't realize is that you are not connected directly to the Internet but rather a network contained and controlled by your ISP. This is how your speeds can change and vary. For instance, Christmas Eve and Day the Internet from my home was painfully slow because every Yahoo and kid was logged on using email, downloading music for their new iPods and playing their friends across town with their new X-Box. Something else that comes into play is the load on the server you are connecting to for the test. The first time I did the Speedtest.net I used the server they suggested in Chicago because that was the closest to me. I then connected to a server in Missouri and my speed improved by 2000Kbps. I typically use this site http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?flash=1 simply because it shows the load on the test servers. You can actually use ping to test your connection to yahoo for example. You can get a feel for the speed in milliseconds and see how many packets are dropped. I use this often to troubleshoot intermittent internet connection problems because while it is running you can actually watch the connection degrade and drop packets. The statistics at the end of the ping are valuable for troubleshooting. Go to a command prompt and type ping www[.]yahoo.com -t the -t switch is what makes the ping run for ever. To end the test hit Ctrl C. See attached file. Now if you really want to get geeky type tracert www[.]yahoo.com and you can see all the hops skips and jumps your packets make to get to their destination. THE BRACKETS AFTER THE WWW WERE ADDED TO STOP THE URL FROM APPEARING AS A LINK. Do not type the brackets at your command prompt.

I finally got around to tearing it apart. The idler towards the front of the vehicle was significantly smaller than the other and showed concave wear. The idlers the dealer sent me look almost identical. The part numbers are almost identical except one was suffix A the other B. Since I have no access to parts info (especially at 7:00PM) I decided not to put it together until I was sure that I had the correct parts. My questions are...on a 96 2.0 Zetec are the timing belt idlers almost identical? What are the correct positions for the A and B idlers?

I assume VCT means variable cam timing. Remember, I am 99.9% Diesel Mechanic and mostly heavy duty engines. Will it be obvious if it is a VCT engine?

Thanks for your input guys. I do appreciate it. Any tips on the actual job such as shortcuts, special tools that I may need?

I noticed a "slapping" noise in my son's 1996 2.0l Countour. It sounds like a piece of the timing belt is slapping the cover or maybe a tensioner issue. I have never worked on this engine or many gas engines period. Are there any tips or advice you would care to offer before I start tearing it down? Are there any other components that you would recommend that I replace while I have it apart? Thanks for your time.

Very cool stuff Bruce. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/notworthy.gif

Quote: I love to get conspiracy theorys going, I was wondering when someone would bite. Speaking of conspiracy theories and hydrogen power; Go rent the movie "Who Killed The Electric Car". Unbelievable. A gentlemen in the fuel industry told me that the reason gas prices are so high is because the oil companies are building up capital to install and control the hydrogen infrastructure (and continue to hose us).

Turned out to be the PCM.

Thanks for the reply Dwayne. Yes I've seen that condition before but what has me confused is that the laptop shows a/c not commanded on.

I have a 2004 F-450 S/D in our fleet that once the a/c is commanded off by the controller, it won't come back on. I replaced the low pressure switch and it was fine for 2 weeks. Came in today for the same problem. A/C is frigid cold when working. Using AutoEnginuity on a laptop to troubleshoot. When it is acting up, there is no input displayed for driver request of a/c and the low pressure input comes in when in my opinion there is too much low side pressure for it to open. Sometimes the a/c will come back on with a few key cycles. Is there a separate module for the climate control for this vehicle? Anyone seen this problem? Thanks in advance for your help.

A cab-over Freightliner that had electrical problems in the dash. The smell inside that truck was horrible. Any guesses what smelled so bad?? Not 1 but 2 pet ferrets inside the bunk scurrying around. I'm quite sure that those two ferrets were not house broken. Another cab-over Freightliner. This time the cab was jacked up and I was underneath pulling a PT pump off of a Cummins. Noticed a thick brown substance running down my arm starting at my shoulder. I felt it when it hit my forearm. The drivers spittoon tipped over and was running out the gearshift hole. Over-the-road truck drivers can be some of the grossest, dirtiest, nastiest smelling people that you will ever meet. Not all of them but some.

I have some "tools" that capture registry queries and logs them. I can do a capture during an install of IDS to see what the IDS looks for early in the install. I tried to install IDS on Windows 2000 and it banged out at the beginning of the install. Once I figure out what it is looking for, I MAY be able to change the registry key What I need to know is what the level of interest is for you guys. If it will be very helpful to a lot of you then I will give it a shot. This can be a very time consuming process but I will attempt it if it will be used by more than just 2 people. Let me know.

I'll resend it tonight when I get home. It will be quite late as I have a seminar to go to. I did install this download of Tweak-NT on my home PC and it ran. I'm not sure how this will help with the IDS install. I only took a quick look at it and it appears to deal mostly with the Windows GUI. I would think that you would have to edit the registry to make it work. If it is a big problem for you guys, I will spend some time on it. If not let me know and I won't go any further.

Try this one. After you download it remove the .txt extension and make it .exe and let me know if it runs. It showed up in file manager as 19. Not sure where it went. Quote: ON EDIT: 3rd time is a charm! Try this: Tweak-NT.exe -Keith