What did you do with your truck/shop today

[michigan2500hd]

Installed my intune I2. I was able to tune the engine but it gave me a message that said the TCM (8 speed) couldn't be tuned. ( 2015 6.2 ) the Intune said it could read the tcm and download the file to send to Diablosport so I tried 4 times but it kept freezing up. Never getting above 28%. Grrrr!!!!

I noticed a little difference with the 93 tune and bumping the throttle response by 10%. It really goes when you drop the hammer . Now if I could only time this 8 speed!!

 

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[dirtfan21]

Drove it to Relay for Life in town to walk for my grandma we lost on May 17. What an experience.

[StinkyCheese]

Swapped out the passenger front door lock actuator. Pretty easy to do thankfully. Finally swapped out one of my aux light switches for one that correctly says they are the front lights instead of "bed lights." Door panels are pretty dirty hopefully next weekend I'll do some cleaning on it.

[STINSAN3]

Changed my cabin air filter out, 44k on my 14.

 

Washed my truck yesterday, rained today though. Took some photos.

 

 

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[Chris]

Checked oil. Been running the 0W-30. No more cold start lifter tick.

[StinkyCheese]

My buddy and I drained the coolant, his F150 doesn't have a drain plug on the radiator either, put fresh stuff in. Did the rear diff fluids on both as well. Again he didn't have a drain plug so in the time it took for his to be vacuumed/sucked out with his fancy contraption we pretty much had mine drained and refilled. Checked his rear brakes and then moved to the fronts. His front stuff was pretty rust welded on. He had to literally beat his rotors with a hammer multiple times to get them to come off.

Just out of curiosity anyone know what the torque spec is for the rear diff drain plug? I know this is a cheap no name extension but still. I'm pretty sure it also broke the impact rated extension we used as well since that snapped trying to take a lug nut off his truck.



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Edited June 7, 2017 by Chevyguy85

[LongrangeLauber]

Hit 80k when I pulled into work. Only 20k left on my extended and powertrain warranties, so if something wants to let loose hopefully it's soon. Besides the truck burning between a quart or 2 of oil between changes I'm very pleased with it. Has good power, rides pretty nice, tows like a champ, and is nice and quiet in the cab.

 

 

Got a complement from my brother in law the other day. First time riding in my truck and he kept looking in the back seat like he was looking for something. I asked him if he dropped something and he said "No, I'm just blown away by how much room you have in your back seat area and on the floor." He has a 2015 F250 King Ranch with the underseat storage. Not much room in those trucks compared to our K2's. Gotta love getting a compliment from a die hard Ford lover, his family all drives Ford's and they always compliment on the truck when I'm over at their farm

 

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[Ravenkeeper]

My son and I washed my truck on Thursday, for a parade on Saturday. Tried to post pictures from the parade on Saturday, afterwards, but all of my pictures were "too big."

 

Edwards AFB Community Queen Court (Miss Edwards AFB, Teen Miss Edwards AFB, Junior Miss Edwards AFB, Young Miss Edwards AFB, & Tiny Miss Edwards AFB) had requested the use of my truck for the Cherry Blossom Parade, in Leona Valley, CA, on 3 June.

 

LATER THIS MORNING, I will be getting my oil changed and any other 33,000 miles PMs.

[LongrangeLauber]

Looking for a replacement rear bumper, painted black. Just need the bumper painted to match, I can add all the brackets and step pads from my old bumper. This is what happens when you cut it too tight when backing up a tongue pull trailer.

 

Looks like I can get a badass aftermarket rear bumper for about the same price, hmmm

 

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[Jsdirt]

Used her as a workbench, as usual. Haven't even started her in 2 weeks. Reminds me, I should throw my charger on her today.

 

Neighbor gave me his boss' POS 4-stroke leaf blower to repair. Cleaned carb and tank, then checked the oil before I fired it up. Sump was GRAY! Looks like the oil hadn't been changed since it was new in '10. Poured a little 5w-30 in just to dilute it a bit, and thin it out. Fired it up - unimpressive power. So I dumped the oil and got some Amsoil Small Engine oil in there, and checked the valves - both were 5x out of spec! After that, she fired up and ran great ... for 30 seconds, then grenaded in my hands lol. It's sitting in the back of the truck in a million pieces. Not even worth fixing. Instant paperweight.

 

The wrist pin bearing was so worn out, it couldn't handle the extra power of finally running correctly - piston hit combustion chamber, and cracked it right along the ring land.

 

Why people buy 4-stroke handheld equipment is beyond me. Proof that a good salesman could sell sand to a beach. 2-strokes are cheaper, lighter, have more power per cc displacement, easier & cheaper to repair, and zero maintenance (aside from cleaning the exhaust port & piston crown every 5-10 years if you run cheap oil).

 

 

 

 

[Chevor]

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Changed the rear u joint on front drive shaft. Good thing I had access to a press, though probably should of put more heat on first. Old u joint popped pretty hard.

 

Changed driver side rear tire with one with slightly more tread. Have different set up front, trying to get the most life out of the tires.

[Jsdirt]

They still injecting nylon to retain those at the factory?

 

I remember the first time I ever did one of those - I couldn't figure out what the hell was holding the bearing caps in the yoke! I did after I forced them out cold, though! Bent my BJ press, AND the driveshaft! Then I couldn't get the retainers into the new caps, since the shaft was bent. Got pissed off, forced them in the best I could, and ran it.

 

About 3k miles later, at 10pm after a long day at work, the thing let go at 50 MPH! Bashed the crap out of the muffler and anything else nearby. I yanked the shaft, threw it in back, and drove home in 4x4, leaving a 1/4 mile trail of tranny fluid.

 

LIVE AND LEARN!

[RyanbabZ71]

Vacuumed out the season of baseball dirt. Week off then Allstars and a dirty interior again

 

 

 

 

Ryan B.

[michigan2500hd]

Took the factory running boards off to see what it looked like without them.

 

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[Dale L]

They still injecting nylon to retain those at the factory?

 

I remember the first time I ever did one of those - I couldn't figure out what the hell was holding the bearing caps in the yoke! I did after I forced them out cold, though! Bent my BJ press, AND the driveshaft! Then I couldn't get the retainers into the new caps, since the shaft was bent. Got pissed off, forced them in the best I could, and ran it.

 

About 3k miles later, at 10pm after a long day at work, the thing let go at 50 MPH! Bashed the crap out of the muffler and anything else nearby. I yanked the shaft, threw it in back, and drove home in 4x4, leaving a 1/4 mile trail of tranny fluid.

 

LIVE AND LEARN!

 

Had a '99 with 506 miles on it. Was thinking "woohoo! break-in competed" when the rear shaft rear u-joint let go at about 75mph. Boy oh boy, talk about vibration....mirrors were a blur but could see I was trailing what looked like smoke. Eased to the shoulder and shut it down, looked underneath to see tranny fluid gushing out onto ground. Rut row!! Bent drive shaft, ripped the side out of the transfer case, busted rear spring shackle, elongated the spline hole in the rear end and other things I can't remember. Dealer was a pain, instead of just looking around to see what got broke I had to go back every time I found something else...took about a year to finally get it all done.

 

Just rolled over 501 miles on the '17 2500 today......