superhawk996

Electronic shit is great until it’s not. I’ve never heard of a keyhole suddenly failing to respond to a command.

445, now about to hit 446, but who's counting 😆 It drives even better now that the alignment is right. But even at it's worst, I've always enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. When I sold the big boat, the only reason I bought the Excursion, I thought I'd sell it also since the need went away. Now I'm thinking it'll never go away. It's a ridiculous vehicle, and so damn useful. The engine noise is sometimes annoying, and I love it. Being able to rip past cars while pulling a trailer up a hill is nice too.

You should send it to him, it'll double the value of his boat and make you happy.

The amount of thrust needed depends on how quick/fast you wanna be. For just slow poking around a shoreline while fishing it won't take much. I've only played with one once and don't remember the spec on it. I do remember that it was under the recommended power for the boat and it was more than I needed for plucking fish. No such thing as too much power....but low powered is lighter and cheaper. Also keep in mind the existing wiring and amperage needs of a big motor. I don't remember the wire size it has. To be the cool guy on the block you need one with a wireless remote. Back into the water and let the boat leave, go park, then have it come meet you at the dock.

No, you want the Megazilla, 615HP and 640 TQ, and 500Ft.Lbs. from 2500 RPM. It has a lower profile intake so it's easier to swap into a car, and with the redesigned pistons it uses it should be boost ready out of the crate.

AFAIK there's no prep to do, they do it. I think they charge extra to decorbonize used parts, maybe you could do that part, but I'd ask them. Chances are they'll want to do it anyway otherwise it would be risky to guarantee the job. An alternative is a titanium pipe, probably only costs about a grand 😆

It aint no faster than a normal F-150, but it makes a lot more noise.

So my friend put some wood in a wash tub, doused it with lighter fluid, and immediately lit it. As one would expect, it went out as soon as the fluid burnt off, but there were some hot coals. He hosed it down with more fluid so it was steaming with angry volatile fumes. As he came in over the top of it with his Bic lighter to re-light it I was screaming NO in my head, but was too slow/drunk to get the word out. Most of the hair on his face vanished, the rest was modified.

Hopefully your recall repair goes better than mine.

Well hell, if you can't start a fire with hydrogen and oxygen you should give up.

I've walked in in my uniform and told them that the only reason I'm not doing it myself is that I paid for a warrantee, didn't help. In a small shop it might, in a dealership you're disconnected from the mechanics. If you speak directly with the mechanic it'll probably reduce thievery and lying, but it won't fix ignorance/incompetence which is most of what I've had happen to me. My customers have been victim of that plus the thievery that comes with the assumed ignorance of the customer. I've had to walk into the dealer's shop and tell the 'tech' what the specs are, how to test/verify what needs to be done, and what to replace. This was on my Cobra's limited slip diff while under warrantee. When the ignition module started acting up, after being out of warrantee, that was an even stupider shit show. They ate a lot of parts and labor chasing that gremlin down, even tho I told them that the first few things they wanted to replace were clearly not the issue.

To make it up to me they're giving me a free alignment, which would be spendy because it needs parts and extra labor to make it right. I got to talk with the alignment guy and feel pretty good about him. And they're assigning a master tech to repair the burnt wires. The foreman acknowledged that they have no room for mistakes with this repair, hopefully this will be the end of it and I'll have a happy vehicle again. It's needed an alignment since I bought it. I did a driveway alignment and made it a bit better, but it needs the camber and castor tweaked which is harder to DIY without buying more fucking tools. I've two shops take stabs at it, both made it worse. The dealer guy seemed to know exactly what it needs and how to do it, and warned me that to make it right would not be their standard $149 alignment, but closer to $500. I had him do the $149 job on his promise that it would be much better, and it was.

I heard something about that. I didn't want an Excursion when I bought it, I was just shopping for the engine to tow my boat and this was the cheapest 7.3 on CL. When I saw the ad my first thought was "I can't tow 13k lbs. with a car, I need a truck...then I started investigating. I sometimes wish it was a pickup and that it had 4WD, but this is better for the vast majority of what I want to do.

The guilty employee's number was on the work order so it would appear that everyone there is 'approved', tho I guess it's possible that warrantee approval is different than recall approval. He was fairly new and apparently wasn't doing well before this incident, and has supposedly been fired because of it. Pretty sure he was canned over the lie, I think he was gone before they found out about the fuckup that left me stranded.

Yup, and Ford service centers in general. The Excursion has been great, especially for a vehicle with 447k miles. I've dealt with a few Ford service departments and have been let down every time. I had a few warrantee repairs on my '95 Mustang Cobra and they fucked up every time. I talked with someone high up in Ford at that time, after making a big stink, and asked him to suggest a good dealership, he didn't have an answer.

Just venting/sharing. Probably useless info for anyone other than Iceprick who also has a 7.3 powered Excursion. Shit, no, it actually applies to any Ford from the era that had this recall, and there were a shit ton. The Excursion had two recalls and I stupidly decided to let the dealer do them. One was the cam position sensor. I'd already installed the latest version so it didn't need it and shouldn't have been done, but the 'technician' replaced it anyway. Ok, free new sensor. The second recall was for the cruise control cancel switch on the master cylinder. It's a secondary safety to cancel the cruise when you hit the brakes, it's there in case the brake light switch has failed. The danger is that if the switch starts leaking the brake fluid and/or wires can catch on fire and burn your shit down. The recall procedure is that if the switch is already leaking it gets replaced, and a fused harness is installed between it and the factory harness. If the switch isn't leaking it just gets the fused harness. Mine wasn't leaking, but the repair order showed that he replaced it anyway. Cool, I'd rather have the new one. I get home and pop the hood to inspect his work and nothing had been done. I call the dealer and they ask me to bring it back to show the manager. Then they bring the 'technician' out to show us what he did. After he fiddle farted around under my hood stalling what was to come, I outed him. He finally admitted to not having done the repair. They sent the truck back to get it done. I was about to head off on a 400+ mile drive to meat Cal to deliver his 'new' bass boat and had a lot to do, and forgot to do an inspection. Along the way I had a few 'hiccups' where the engine would briefly cut out when I hit big bumps. Then outa nowhere the engine shut off. I figured out that the ECU wasn't powering up, but didn't know why. After a fair bit of probing found that one of the ECU fuses was burnt so I replaced it, pop. I fiddled with wires and connectors, put in another fuse, pop. Then I remembered that someone had worked on my truck so I cut his zip tie and found the burnt wires. I cut them off, installed another fuse and was back on the road. The technician asshole who needs his house burnt down zip tied the wires to the hydraulic line running to the brake booster and either the wire insulation broke, or he fucked it up on purpose. So while performing a repair to prevent a possible short circuit that hadn't happened in 20+ years, he fixed it by creating a short circuit.

100% guaranteed that you will, but it doesn't matter. I don't recall having a perceptible difference between them on my SuperHawk when using them to warm my hands, a handy feature of side mount radiators.

Yup.

Well, this may have skewed my impression of it to be more negative than it deserved. I'm pretty sure the rear was showing 30 on the TPMS, I thought that was a bit nutty, but I knew that you were playing with pressures so I let it go rather than think there was a problem. This was when I rode it right before you were riding it and discovered the nail.

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Option 2- dump the gas from it into the fire like a real man.

I've replaced many fuses that never popped again. Kinda like a light bulb, it can only endure so many heat cycles before the metal breaks.

I've had owners of normal cars call me freaked out because they were locked out of their car when the remote stopped working. Cars with key ignitions and obvious key locks on the doors.

I don't know of any car that doesn't have a key and key hole. A googling or RTFM might reveal the secret.

We're inching closer to the Star Trek body scanner.