Been reading the forums for a few months. Decided it was time to join and converse. My father decided to purchase a portable toilet rental business from the local town drunk (extremely wealthy drunk). No lie, it’s the truth. (23 DUIs. Over 2.5 million in lawyer fees and fines... proofs on the Internet...). Anyway It made them pretty dang good money when he was sober enough to call somebody to haul him around to service them. With the business came 2 sad and I mean SAD ford trucks... a 1994 F350 351 5 speed 2 wheel drive with 260k... ran for 3 weeks and been a pain in the back ever since, and a 2003 F350 6.0 4x4 single cab flat bed with 185k NOT RUNNING I mean not even a little bit. Not even a cough. Me being the good son that I am and the fact I make a living as a heavy equipment field mechanic I decided I’d get it going for him. He needed it short fast and in a hurry. He hadn’t had a Running service truck in 3 weeks and customers where calling daily. Little did I know the hell I was fixing to step into. I started 7 am on a tuesday morning. I pulled this big dead turd 25 miles through the Appalachian mountains of NC with the trust 06 Tacoma with the 6 speed manual slush box. Not to mention 4 or 5 other “mechanics” has already been into this motor before I got it... I started with the HPOP and ended with all new glow plugs, harness’s, GPCM, FICM, and finally a remand 04 whootang Whirlly (turbo- thanks to sitting for 3 years). For the first time in 3 years it started up. And boy did it run like garbage. Plugged FORscan back up and determined bad injector. Local auto store only had one and time was something we didn’t have a lot of. Slapped it in and I’ll be as flat faced as a mule it sounded like a brand new truck. Still has some leaks and the PS pump whines like a mashed cat. But my main reason for this long and odd post is to say THANK YOU. To each and every one of y’all. Even without me having to ask a single question I was able to use this site to fix the truck and save the old man from taking a big blow to his new business.

 

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Great to hear!

I'm curious how it is running today.

Welcome aboard!