Today's jobs. Truck repairs

JayinNY · Mar 11, 2016

From sitting this winter the calipers froze up my my
F250, so I went to ford yesterday and got new
calipers, rotors and pads. My old Chevy had the
master cylinder start leaking last fall, so time to
replace that today too!

ray hofstetter · Mar 11, 2016

Ya got me beat, I only had to put a starter on the 7.3 last week...

Part Time Pete · Mar 11, 2016

Nice weather for it - I've been fighting with my 6.9 on and off for the last week. Getting air in the fuel system somehow.
Pete

bigbob1939 · Mar 11, 2016

Working on putting new intake manifold gasket in 5.7. 1999 yukon, leaking water very badly. I work on these projects kind of slowly because of health reasons. Bob

rrlund · Mar 11, 2016

I had to change the wiper motor on the 85 F250 a few weeks ago. Thank God for YouTube or I never would have figured out how to get that job done.

Mike M · Mar 11, 2016

OEM Ford. Ouch ! bet that cost a lot.

mjsnodgrass · Mar 11, 2016

I was getting air in my fuel system as well. turned out stock water separator wasn't sealing at the bottom, where it drains. I drilled and tapped the bottom where drain hose attaches and screwed in a petcock and re attached the hose. works great.

JoeM(GA) · Mar 11, 2016

I fee ya! Just put new calipers and pads on my 08 F350 yesterday
Hands sure feel it today, not as young as I used to be!

in-too-deep · Mar 11, 2016

Ugh. Those Super Duty pictures make me cringe. I gotta do ball joints on my 04. Not happy about it.

dhermesc · Mar 11, 2016

I have learned a lot watching You Tube videos on how to switch parts out. Sure saves a lot of parts I would have broken just getting stuff apart.

ditchwitch · Mar 11, 2016

Trade that thing in Jay for a GMC . They just run forever. LOL.
Difference between the Chevrolet and a GMC is when there rolling down the assembly line and get to quality control if it want pass they put a bowtie emblem on it. lol

tomturkey · Mar 11, 2016

I work on projects slowly, because most of the time I'm not sure how it comes apart(or what i'm doing). Then slowly put it back together so I don't mess something up. Youtube has also been a great help to me. gobble

RBoots · Mar 11, 2016

I feel for ya Jay. I was there doing the same thing about 3 months ago on my F250. Mine is a 96 though and has the TTB front axle. I had to do upper and lower ball joints, axle and drive shaft U-joints, brakes, inner and outer wheel bearings, and I converted the auto hubs to manual hubs after a couple "incidents" where the automatic hubs didn't lock in. I also had a problem with the bolts on the TTB axle pivot brackets working loose and breaking. It has a 4" lift on it, and I think the 4 7/16" bolts in each bracket couldn't take the stress of how I use it/load it. So I drilled the brackets and cross member out to 5/8" and used grade 8 bolts and stover flanged locknuts. I got bolts that a shoulder just long enough to go through all the pieces without any loads on the threads (I hate that), lots of red loctite and a 3/4 breaker bar, no worries now. Was a little hard to get the bolts and nuts in there with the 7.3's oil pan only an inch above the cross member. But, the factory ball joints lasted to 285,000 miles, must have been pretty good stuff.

Ross

K Effective · Mar 11, 2016

Got out of work earlier than normal yesterday due to Training, so I came home to:

reset the valve lash on my 99 Honda Civic three-quarter ton farm truck (works better when you actually use metric feeler gauge rather than estimating with one in inches)

new rotors and pads for the Middle son's 2003 LeSabre, and reinstall the dash trim pieces he removed at Christmas time to install aftermarket radio

new left front wheel bearing/speed sensor for SWMBO's Montana. From the time I closed the door of the van in the shop to backing it outside for test drive- 45 minutes. Getting too good at those after three of them now.

Jeff NWOH · Mar 11, 2016

Tore into this yesterday afternoon. 5.3 with active fuel management. Had a bad lifter. I'm deleting the afm. Non-afm cam, lifters, and valley cover. Ive got a fair amount of it back together before i had to go to work tonight. I'm thinking I should have just pulled the motor. I'm sore as heck from crawling in and out of that engine bay and stretching over the core support.

I sent the computer out to have the afm disabled. I probably won't see it back til the end of next week, but the truck should be sitting here waiting.

37chief · Mar 11, 2016

I remember those days. Work all day, and go to work nights to rest. My job was not very stressful. I stayed in the maintenance shop until there was a problem. Stan

JayinNY · Mar 11, 2016

Good job, thanks for posting, I have to admit I'm not sure if a 5.3 is a Chevy or ford engine?

JayinNY · Mar 11, 2016

I agree, I threw out those auto hubs and put on warn manual ones. You can them in the pics. 205,000 on mine it's a 2000

Jeff NWOH · Mar 11, 2016

Chevy

JayinNY · Mar 11, 2016

About $385 with tax, but I think ford parts are better that aftermarket,

Adirondack case guy · Mar 11, 2016

Jay,
Why didn't you just free them up and drive it???? Seams like a lot of money and time spent to cure a minimal problem.
Loren

Hobo,NC · Mar 11, 2016

No new brake hoses

I have a 90 ford f150 5.8 with California emissions setting here that needs valve cover gaskets, intake gaskets wire plugs, freeze plugs etc... check engine light is on it needs a solenoid block in the trans. The space shuttle does not have as much plumbing as this thang does it has double emission everything... It was left with a must be ready in 2 weeks I am slow-playing it and keep putting other jobs in front of it, no way I will get'er done in 2 weeks I hope to pizz them off and they never come back...

I know if I just go at it its not going to be that bad I just have not been that hungry...

Hobo,NC · Mar 11, 2016

I thought the radiator support came out of those EZ :?:

JayinNY · Mar 11, 2016

For one the rotors were warped from trying to drive it last month, it was due for pads also, so may as well just do it everything now.

JayinNY · Mar 11, 2016

What I should have said was about a month ago I started the truck and tried to drive it to the golf course to get some wood that was left behind, halfway down their, the brakes locked up I had to turn around and drive it back so the heat warpef the rotors.

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