Nut embedded into the piston
Cargo Master
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From: Jefferson, Iowa
very unfortunate about your truck. I think holding the previous mech liable a 1000mi later for hardware left in the intake might be tough. I could see a nut like that being stuck in a gummy intake, jostle the intake around removing and re installing knocking it loose. He should offer some assistance just because he was the last one in, but weather he knowing or unknowingly cause the damage is a guess.
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very unfortunate about your truck. I think holding the previous mech liable a 1000mi later for hardware left in the intake might be tough. I could see a nut like that being stuck in a gummy intake, jostle the intake around removing and re installing knocking it loose. He should offer some assistance just because he was the last one in, but weather he knowing or unknowingly cause the damage is a guess.
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Probably difficult to figure all nuts due to non-oem parts used.
Cargo Master
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There are not that many nuts that have to come off to do an EGR cooler. + battery post, EGR cooler its self, - for the FICM, EBP mount, GP relay mount. I think they all take a 10 MM. Can you measure the size of the nut from the imprint?
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That is a possibility. Only small problem is their parts are from China. The EGR cooler, from what I understand, comes with the small hose piece from Ford and costs around $500. I was charged $700 plus $90 for the hose....plus labor.
Probably difficult to figure all nuts due to non-oem parts used.
Probably difficult to figure all nuts due to non-oem parts used.
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I've not measured the nut yet. Looks to be 10 mm possibly.
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tHOUGHT that looked framiliar
Had them in my hands yesterday LOL
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Being that the nut is in the #4 piston, I would speculate that it is one of the ones that holds the turbo inlet tube bracket on the FICM studs.
I will say that I have on more than one occasion found bolts and nuts laying on or near the intake manifold. I make sure to use my blower all around the intake before removing it to make sure something like that embedded nut doesn't happen to one of my customers.
I will say that I have on more than one occasion found bolts and nuts laying on or near the intake manifold. I make sure to use my blower all around the intake before removing it to make sure something like that embedded nut doesn't happen to one of my customers.
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Cargo Master
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Being that the nut is in the #4 piston, I would speculate that it is one of the ones that holds the turbo inlet tube bracket on the FICM studs.
I will say that I have on more than one occasion found bolts and nuts laying on or near the intake manifold. I make sure to use my blower all around the intake before removing it to make sure something like that embedded nut doesn't happen to one of my customers.
I will say that I have on more than one occasion found bolts and nuts laying on or near the intake manifold. I make sure to use my blower all around the intake before removing it to make sure something like that embedded nut doesn't happen to one of my customers.
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I haven't had one end up like that yet (knocking on wood). I have come close a couple of times, but I was able to catch the foreign object before buttoning things back up.
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halfway between baker and the state line.
it was the air cleaner wingnut... a fine gas station attendant in barstow
took off the air cleaner to try and sell a new filter to my dad, dropping
the wingnut down the throat of one of the carbs... and sending us on our way...
this was exactly what it looked like....
Posting Guru
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From: Eagle Mountian, Utah
No other damage other then the head? New head and some arp studs and your better off imo.
But it had to have been dropped in the intake while doing the work. Ive had nightmares about this kind of crap lol. Good luck!
But it had to have been dropped in the intake while doing the work. Ive had nightmares about this kind of crap lol. Good luck!
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From: Spanaway
This is the very reason I don't do what some mechanics do and stack
the parts that come off an engine on the truck. They all go off and
into a container. I have done it that way from way back as a kid.
Now that I have my A&P it is even more critical that parts are tracked
and it one is missing. Guess who will be pulling an engine down to find it.
After all you can't pull over to the nearest cloud and get out to call a tow.
Sean
the parts that come off an engine on the truck. They all go off and
into a container. I have done it that way from way back as a kid.
Now that I have my A&P it is even more critical that parts are tracked
and it one is missing. Guess who will be pulling an engine down to find it.
After all you can't pull over to the nearest cloud and get out to call a tow.
Sean