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Pay raise, title, and added benefits added to the job today. More info in the vapes thread. Awesome day for my household today.

That wouldn't take long.

Yum FUCK YES Yum Thanks to that, I pulled my hammy... Yum Almost missed a whole page

One more time. Again, perhaps?

Yeah, Piston slap/scuff is a build or tune issue, not an oil issue. Amsoil has been proven time and again. They could use more zinc, but thanks to the government intrusion we will not see it. Zinc eats up cats and O2s.

Thanks to that, I pulled my hammy...

FUCK YES

I thank god I never had a problem. Loved the 5.4 when the rest of the truck was working. This truck was an immaculate 2008 F150 with 75K. The owner wanted a tune up, it wasn't due, nor needed based on drivability issues. I forewarned him of what could happen, and even did Ford's recommended soak overnight. 3 came apart. If you look at one of the plugs you will see that the threads tore right off the plug. When I removed the socket the metal came out, while the porcelain and side electrode portion stayed in the hole. I have seen plugs blow out of a vehicle like that, but I have never seen, nor heard of the porcelain remaining in the hole while the threaded portion came out. Of course #4 and #8 broke. They are the 2 rear plugs. The other was, fortunately #1 and very easy to access. I had the Rotunda (Ford factory) removal tool before, but it was worn out. I bought the Lisle equivalent last year. This was my first time using it, and IMO it worked better than the Ford tool. It is a very low profile set up, so it fit into the rear holes relatively easy. Did that one have the sticky injector issue? No. It ran perfectly. This was strictly a maintenance tune. No MIL, no miss, no hard start, no P0316 (misfire in first 1000 revolutions) nothing.

I have been to a bunch of training on Direct Injection. I will never buy one... at least until they figure it out. Always, always, always use synthetics in turbo motors. Always, always, always use detergents in the intake. DIS systems will carbon intake runners and valves. So far the best design I have seen are the Toyota units. They have direct injectors and intake injectors that keep the runners and valves cleaner than most. I am not trying to be a downer, but the Ford DI systems, and their turbo systems in particular, are a diagnostic nightmare. They are using several intake pressure systems on the suction side, compressor side X3, and the intake, yet their diagnostics are very limited at this time. This is typical Ford, and once they figure out common failures, they will continue to breed these failures into future designs with limited diagnosis. While not every engine will suffer from issues, there are still too many engines I see having trouble with DI systems. FWIW, Ford has a tendency to jump headlong into new technologies without long term testing. The results tend to be disastrous.

Yes those plugs sucked! When I did my FIL's he got a one piece plug. Took almost 4 damn hours too. Fortunately I have all the right tools. The plug socket is very specific, but I have also invested in an extremely low profile 9/32 6 point 1/4 drive universal swivel socket just for removing the coils. I can run through a tune on a modular Ford in ~ an hour (pays 3 to 4). Even with having to extract 3 plugs I got this done in 3 hours. I get 3 hours for the main tune, 1 hour for the soak (if the customer chooses) and an hour per plug extraction. So I got 7 hours out of it, and had it done before lunch.

I thank god I never had a problem. Loved the 5.4 when the rest of the truck was working. This truck was an immaculate 2008 F150 with 75K. The owner wanted a tune up, it wasn't due, nor needed based on drivability issues. I forewarned him of what could happen, and even did Ford's recommended soak overnight. 3 came apart. If you look at one of the plugs you will see that the threads tore right off the plug. When I removed the socket the metal came out, while the porcelain and side electrode portion stayed in the hole. I have seen plugs blow out of a vehicle like that, but I have never seen, nor heard of the porcelain remaining in the hole while the threaded portion came out. Of course #4 and #8 broke. They are the 2 rear plugs. The other was, fortunately #1 and very easy to access. I had the Rotunda (Ford factory) removal tool before, but it was worn out. I bought the Lisle equivalent last year. This was my first time using it, and IMO it worked better than the Ford tool. It is a very low profile set up, so it fit into the rear holes relatively easy.

Fuck all you Ford lovers. This is how my day started... I hate a 5.4.

Didn't you have something happen at a Taco Bell drive thru a while back? I'd say it IS time to lay off the drive thrus

No interest in doing cocaine, but I think doing a cocaine angel would be kinda fun. If I was some old billionaire it might happen.better off deadHey man, YOLOYou are obviously too young to catch the reference. Completely over my head skyscraper.literally the phrase is from the movie better off dead which is cusacks best movie btw . Line is by buger from revenge of the nerds lol Without a doubt his best movie "he uses it as an excuse to put his testicles all over me. What? How you say... Octopus... testicles? Tentacles! Big difference"

I am so fucking tired. We had nasty snow/ice/sleet/freezing rain storms last week Thursday and Friday. Spent half of the day Friday digging out my truck, and my neighbor's truck that got buried while trying to get mine out. Lost my Nemesis, had to cut downed trees all over the place, work Saturday then bring my generator to my co-worker's parents' house and set it up for them, do more clean up at his place which included removing a tree from his roof. School Monday and Tuesday after work, then came home last night in a nasty wind and rain storm that tore some flashing off my house and tore a bunch of my soffets off my house and fucked up several shingles. On an extension ladder and the roof until late last night. All that and I have been pulling 12 hour shifts for 3 months now. I think I am gonna grab myself a nap at lunch. Hopefully I wake up today, not tomorrow.

Bummer. A dude I used to work with did the same thing. It does leave a cool battle scar, and they give you good dope. Always look at the positives.

that was really kinda disturbing Peng...

My bike is barely breathing at 8K

Neal I know you know metal, so how do I make this http://www.ebay.com/itm/45mm-Copper-Long-Neck-Drip-Tip-for-Vivi-Nova-510-EGO-Atomizer-/380845652670?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58ac2b7abe look like the Copper above? Torch it.

I hate to admit it, but I stole my Mongoose. Honestly, though, it was the only thing I ever really stole in my life. I detest a fucking thief.

Awesome. I did love my Goose. I actually got good at it.

I found an '88 GT Performer yesterday!!! A black special edition one!!! will go nicely with my 20" GT race bike and GT 24" mountain bike!!!! Now you're going back. I remember back when GT, Haro, and the Mongoose were the shit. I had a Goose, back before they became WalMart shit. The "Goose Neck: was such an innovation.

Hmmm... your peanut butter buddy?

Awesome. So basically it was flooded and needed a relearn. Sounds like I might be inquiring of the validity of my bill with the cheeseball shop when I pulled up in the Altima I got running on my own if I were in your shoes.