I just read some posts on another website about if you have problems in the motor department on the new Blue Oval. They have to pull the cab off the truck. I didn't know that, thats pretty tough for the little things that go bad.
One guy had a leak on his Turbo had to pull the cab just to fix a O-ring.

I like my 6 cylinder trucks much better and the older ones at that.

Sittingbull2

 

I think that ford should of used wing-nuts to hold down the cab, make it a little easyer to remove, or maybe they should use wing-nuts for every thing. Accept the for the engineers which most of them most of been for making a truck that the cab has to come off to even see the motor.

03 Qcab Sbox

 

I read somewhere that it's 8 or 10 hours to R&R the cab.

"Well sir, that will be $1100. in labor and 58 cents for the new O ring"

How about a zipper and velcro to hold it together. No, Velcro fails after about a hundred separations. Hmmm.........

The real solution (besides firing most of the Ford design team, the bean counters and scrapping the V8) is a tilt front end. I predict it's the next big design feature.

Meanwhile, what are all those cabs sittng around at the Ford dealer??


John

 

The wingnuts are the engineers.

 

"Well sir, that will be $1100. in labor and 58 cents for the new O ring"

LOL.

The wingnuts are the engineers.

LOLOL.



LOLOLOL!

 

i'd love to have a new f-450.........with a 12 valve.

but really it is sad because now every average joe wants to talk diesels and tell me the new 6.4 is great because it has 2 turbos and fancy injectors that use "new" common rail technology. i need a break.

 

I first saw the "cab off" used on an 04 6.0. Tech at the dealer I used was a good one. He told me it was almost impossible to put the correct TQ on 6.0headbolts with the cab on. Told me it was a six hour job for the cab R&R. My fear would not be the cab R&R with the tech I know, it would be how few good techs are out there if I got caught out on the road away from home.

I added a couple of 6.0 cab R&R photos in my sig.

 

yeah my fiance's dad is a mechanic and he said that even adjusting the valves consists of removing the cab. I was like, well i'm never buying one of those. I've never been a ford fan, but my fiance' is and with everything going on right now with flames out the exhaust, removing the cab, the whole ford/navstar thing. I'll pass, she still wants a powerjoke, and i just ask why? Only thing i like in the new fords is the factory trailer brake controller and toggle switches because you don't have to drill holes in the dash to add switches for extra lights and whatnot. Other than that, it's a pile to me.