Its not Ford...its the Ford Mechanics and Fix-it System...Hee, Hee
Hey Men of the new Diesel World...
My Late 08 F250 KR...began Chirping in the cold morn about 5K miles ago. Finally stop by a Ford Dealer(The last place you wanna go...Hee, Hee) and pulled the TSB. Got lined up to change one of the idler pulley's right?...Well, to get to this pulley you have to remove all the 7 or so heat exchangers and take out the Fan while your at it. About a 3 hour job to change the pulley and belt. I looked on while Arron did the work. Let me see now? 300 dollars labor to change a 50 dollars worth of parts. Yea! no that is a good deal...for Ford shops all over Ford Nation. I wonder what Ford Engineers were doing when Navistar was designing the gu-dee-grah? The even worst thing to imagin is that there is no wher else to go to buy a good Diesel.
Well...to make a long story short, my chip fix did not work...its chirping worst than ever. This is only a sign that i, super diagnostic m;an will have to fix it myself(This is what i get for being retired). Yep the service mgr...says, well? bring it in and we'll look at it. Yea! like I like my truck disasymbled twice a weak by incompident messchanics. They already had their chance...and like there is no gig to rig up on the engine to test it...its just 3 hours of labor every time you get a earg to take a crap...
Good luck on yours folks...i am fixing my own next week and i will pass it on, on what i find.
