So what did you do to your 6.0L today?
04-11-2019, 11:16 AM
Mountain Pass
nope.... the dealership wasnt real good at explanations... always treated me like a no-nothing-about-cars kinda customer... which tended to tick me off when dealing with them... but whatever they did worked and hasnt leaked since... i even bought the special tool for installing that stupid seal... I kept trying to ask people on the various forums about it since it was the first time dealing with a dually.. but as usual when i needed help/info everyone i knew then up and disappeared without a reply... couple of them eventually replied but by then it was like 3 weeks after i got it back from the dealer so it was pointless.. (only reason i was taking it to the dealership too was because everytime i tried to find a smaller shop like FS, Merc or places like that "we cant handle something that big...")
first time i thought i just hammered it in too hard (like driving it in with 1 or 2 hits with the mallet kinda hard)... test driving ended up coating the underside of the truck and drum brakes in gear oil... so the second time i tried lightly tapping it in... with everything cleaned off the test drive did the same thing but also had a puddle under the truck after it was parked for a few mins... 3rd time i looked for burs and other crap despite doing the light sanding and emery cloth stuff the prior times... when it leaked again i was just fed up and took it in to let someone else deal with it... at $30 a seal i was fed up..
when i got it back i was really annoyed they backed off the parking brake to the point it wouldnt touch the drum even when set and never adjusted it back.. which i need to do some more adjustments on that again...
first time i thought i just hammered it in too hard (like driving it in with 1 or 2 hits with the mallet kinda hard)... test driving ended up coating the underside of the truck and drum brakes in gear oil... so the second time i tried lightly tapping it in... with everything cleaned off the test drive did the same thing but also had a puddle under the truck after it was parked for a few mins... 3rd time i looked for burs and other crap despite doing the light sanding and emery cloth stuff the prior times... when it leaked again i was just fed up and took it in to let someone else deal with it... at $30 a seal i was fed up..
when i got it back i was really annoyed they backed off the parking brake to the point it wouldnt touch the drum even when set and never adjusted it back.. which i need to do some more adjustments on that again...
04-11-2019, 11:33 AM
Some dealerships don't like to voluntarily give away tech information unless the customer is adamant about the workmanship of there vehicles. The customer usually speaks with a service advisor/writer and they normally don't really know the details of repair or service. If the seal was properly seated it shouldn't leak unless the race had an issue.
... the carrier bearings bad... how do you know that??".... pretty much was trying to tell me to take it home and drive it as there was no possible chance it was bad without even looking at it... i had to get him to get his fat butt under the truck to look at it and first thing he asked was "how do you know its bad".... i just reached up, grabbed the shaft and shook it around... i could move it completely from one side of the outer shell to the other side easily... was only then he was like "well i guess its bad... " with a snarky attitude about it...technically i would have rather taken it to the dealership that was closer to the house and on my way home.. but their service dept really sucked and incompetent in their work... the work that dealership did i had to have completely redone again by the bad attitude one (which they did it right)... ntm was downright dangerous too.. when i got home i went over the truck since i had a trip i needed it for in the next couple days and found all the lugnuts loose on the tires THEY HAD OFF!!!! like i could remove them with my fingers kinda loose... was surprised i didnt have an accident on the way home...
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04-15-2019, 02:16 AM
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Continuing the electrical system upgrade and maintenance project going into week 2 now..... Also noticed my egr valve is still unplugged after 4 months now when I unplugged it one night for whatever reason. Doesn't seem to hurt or help anything having it so I'll leave it off and keep 1000* gasses away from my coolant. Still need to reinstall the muffler tailpipe combo so I can get new state tags but that whistle though.....
04-15-2019, 06:49 AM
Continuing the electrical system upgrade and maintenance project going into week 2 now..... Also noticed my egr valve is still unplugged after 4 months now when I unplugged it one night for whatever reason. Doesn't seem to hurt or help anything having it so I'll leave it off and keep 1000* gasses away from my coolant. Still need to reinstall the muffler tailpipe combo so I can get new state tags but that whistle though.....
04-15-2019, 09:55 AM
Correct
It keeps it out of the Intake manifold, but if anything, reduces the amount that gets in.
I'm about to do an EGR delete tonight, I'll post pics of the intake manifold. Stock 2004 Excursion.
I'm about to do an EGR delete tonight, I'll post pics of the intake manifold. Stock 2004 Excursion.