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Well, here we go again! Putting the Wireless Air on the 350. I'm somewhat surprised. I've got less room to work and tighter spaces under there than I have on the F250! On the 250 I can sit up under there, although a little crunched up. On the 350 I've got a monster center line tank, exhaust and drivelines in the way. Starting to feel like a pretzel!
Good evening Jim and those to follow.
Long day today 27 deliveries, loaded the truck for tomorrow, then a couple of hours at The Repair Cafe.
We got the keys for the other apartment!!
Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Need to finish up the air controller installation today, get some yard work done and I'm debating on getting new batteries for the F350. It has 2015 650CCA Interstates in it and one of them isn't testing so well. I'm not a real fan of Interstates and I'm not sure why it has 650's in it. I like 750 CCA + in the trucks.
I was able to complete the Wireless Air install. Tested and holding pressure and good to go.
The short version of a long story...one that started around 12/2015 per the cut out on the Interstate battery.
This F350 came with 650 CCA Interstate Battery on the drivers side and a Motorcraft 750 CCA on the Passenger side. Used those for bargaining and horse trading on the price. Now, there had been no problems starting the pickup and it fired right up with those new fangled instant on Glow plugs. I did notice that all the power windows seemed to be a little slow on operation.
While working on the wireless install, I noticed the batteries were really starting to sound bad.
So I shut everything down and let it charge over night. This morning it was showing 13.7 V and 100 % charge and it automatically had switched to 2-6V maintenance mode.
O.K., pickup started and everything electrical was working.
Finished the air install, did some testing and headed for town. Got to Ford Quick Lane and told John about our new to us pickup and that I needed two 750 Motorcraft batteries for it. I explained what had been going on and the fact that it had mismatched batteries. John set up the service order. A few minutes later a young man fetched the pickup and took it to a service bay. Just a couple of minutes later this young man was behind the counter and whispering in Johns ear. John looked surprised and said something like "your kidding, are you sure, Jim just bought the pickup last Saturday." The young man shrugged and headed back to the service bay.
Needless to say, I felt a sudden wave of panic and nausea coming over me and wondered what kind of disaster they had found in such short order.
John told me to come on back and we went out to the service bay where the pickup was. The young service tech was standing by the driver front corner near the battery. He had the big plastic shield peeled back from the post clamps on the battery. He asked me if I saw anything wrong with the picture. I almost instantly saw a black plastic shipping cap under the clamp on the Interstate battery! That battery was installed in 12/2015 according to the punch out date on it. The mfg date was 10/2015. Voltage on that battery was zero, of course.
So, for roughly 3 1/2 years, this F350 King Ranch 6.7 PSD has been running on one battery! What's even more interesting is that the Motorcraft battery on the Pax side is only a year old, so someone had to have replaced a battery there and totally missed the Interstate for a second screwup. The Motorcraft that was on the passenger side tested out fine, so we left it there. The NEW Motorcraft is in place of the Interstate and IT HAS the plastic shipping caps removed from the post!
The 4 door windows, moon roof and back slider now all crank open and closed so fast, they act like brand new. Definately a very noticeable difference. A few other things are operating with renewed life as well.
Pull a one battery stunt on my 96 7.3 and you are going to be lucky to have a dome light, let alone start the pickup.
Yep, I know! Looks like I'm wiring up charges or something.
This is the test strip on the Motorcraft 750 battery that has been in the pickup doing the work of two batteries for at least a year.
Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Mini logging on a hedge and some runaway rhodies going on this morning. Electric hedge trimmer works really well - right up until the battery goes dead. May use chain saw on hedge...it ain't as pretty, but it gets the job done!
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