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Old Feb 14, 2011 | 10:05 AM
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Funny HAHA

I found this post in the Superduty forum. I got a chuckle. Thought some of you might as well.


Hi ya all! Great forum you have here! I have been visiting here for a while but never became a member until now because I just bought my 1st rig. I am a long time Ford fanatic and own a few ponies since the 70s. I was also a Quality Control Eng at Ford's Mfg plant here in the island back in the 70's.

For a few years I was looking into buying a flatbed tow truck for my ponies and it was this year that I finally got it. It's a 1999 F450 Super Duty 7.3L with a Jerr-Dan 17" bed and it only has 127,000 miles on it. The truck is in excellent condition and feels like a 2009 one.

This weekend I decided to remove the front bumper to fix a small dent on it and at the same time replace the plastic trim for a new one when I discovered this male plug that's just the same plug my AC tools have, attached to the front bumper with a factory type harness. Does any one know what this connector is for? I have Mitchel electrical diagrams and can't find that connector in the diagrams. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2011 | 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by 429poweredf350
I was also a Quality Control Eng at Ford's Mfg plant here in the island back in the 70's.

I discovered this male plug that's just the same plug my AC tools have, attached to the front bumper with a factory type harness. Does any one know what this connector is for?

Wow, guess that explains a lot of the problems we suffer through now...

Scary stupid
 
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Old Feb 14, 2011 | 10:37 AM
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I'd cut the guy a little slack. Like he said, it's his first diesel, plus he's in Puerto Rico. Not much need for a block heater there.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2011 | 11:25 AM
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Plug in Hybrid....
 
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Old Feb 14, 2011 | 11:53 AM
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Now thats a good one! Thanks for the laugh.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2011 | 12:26 PM
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I'd cut the guy a little slack. Like he said, it's his first diesel, plus he's in Puerto Rico. Not much need for a block heater there.

I also agree 100% with Steve, you guys want a real laugh, look at the person running our country.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2011 | 01:08 PM
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I also agree 100% with Steve, you guys want a real laugh, look at the person running our country.

That's not even a joke. Just makes me cry.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2011 | 01:18 PM
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I also agree 100% with Steve, you guys want a real laugh, look at the person running our country.
Man you guys are on a role today thanks again!
 
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Thanks for the laugh!
My brother married a Scottish lass many years back, and we invited her for dinner one cold winter day, and she phoned back in a few minutes and said she didn't think she'd be able to come - her husband had evidently tied her car to the house with a cable of some sort.
But that wasn't the best one, we fed her some "prairie oysters", and she ate a couple of them, pronounced them "quite lovely", and asked if we just found them laying out on the prairie. I told her they generally resided about a foot and a half above the prairie. When she figured it out, her fork dropped from here nerveless hand, and she was "mortified". Told her the testostrone would hit in less than an hour, and she wouldn't be able to control her urges and should probably go home with her husband so it didn't get ugly.
She did forgive us, a few days later.
 
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 08:11 AM
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That's a great story
 
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