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My brother-in-law has an 05 F250 5.4, the farthest back plug on the drivers side snapped off, Any tips to getting one out? Or will we have to pull a head?
hey!! since we're talking ford trucks here and it sounds like a couple of ford techs are chiming in. what's up with this? i've a '96 4.0 ranger automatic trans that intermittently stalls. it was popping a vacuum line off the block on the manifold. i zip tied it and ran fine. then it started popping off the same line but at the other end (top of motor towards front). but anyway. it seems the line is filling with oil which is causing the stall. it'll run fine for many miles then BAM pop the line and stall. let it sit for 1/2 hour before it'll start and then it'll run for a couple miles or a hundred miles. i haven't driven it in a couple years because of this. any ideas?? anyone? anyone?
effin' 4.0s... sounds like an intake valve is sticking open, and popping back thru the intake. Needs a valve job.
" He took all the mods off and took it to the dealer and they dropped a new motor in it"
That makes him a thief, like an insurance scammer.
Here's my Ford. Had it since last Feb, has about 15000mi on it without skipping a beat. The only other Ford before this was a 95 Ranger, which I affectionately called whitey.
Completely stock while under warranty, but it won't take much work to push it up to 270hp. Not the quickest car around, but it's fun around corners and feels fast.
I was researching network communication and security issues and came across this:
During CES 2014, Jim Farley, Ford's Executive VP of Global Marketing Sales said, "We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing. By the way we don't supply that data to anyone."
Jim Farley's statement came as a shock to many consumers who are unaware of the data being collected and stored. Clearly informing users about data collection and how that data will be managed is going to become one of the great challenges facing the IoT.
So, you drive a Ford?
...What's really eff'ed up is the data stored in the airbag diagnostic monitor; every tangible bit of data to be used as evidence in a criminal trial, and it can only be accessed by specialized computers in the possession of NHTSA
When I worked at Ford, we were aware that the company did possess a few of the machines, simply for development of the monitors, but we did not have authority to access anything other than test components...
Is this the Event Data Monitor (EDM) that's used in crash court?
Here's my Ford. 94' 5 liter, 5 speed GT, motor is lightly modded. Twenty years old this year, 35,000 miles, only gets out for an annual drive to Sonoma CA to check out the wine harvest. Fun to run. The GT and the SR are best friends.
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