SILVER2000SVT
12-17-2003, 09:47 AM
When ever you take your truck to the ford dealer, that the gift that keeps on giving. Back in July and about 4K miles ago I had my passenger side head replace because I blew out a plug. When I got it back they had tightened the lower blower pulley on so tight that I broke one of the allen sockets, and I had and almost rounded the internal hex on the pulley. Steve was there to help me and with all of both our strengths with arms and legs it wouldn't budge, and there was still plenty of the copper antisieze on the threads from when I put the pulley back on before I took it to them. I finally got it off by taking the blow torch to it with tends to liquify the anti-sieze in addition to expanding the threads in the adapter and it popped right off. I should have tried that first, but they should have never tightened it on there with probably over 1000 ftlbs of torque like they did. Now the internal hex is distorted and I don't know if it will take another removal if I put it back on.
You would think, that since they pulled the motor and replaced a head for a spark plug coming out, that they would check the plugs on the other head. Well thats what I get for thinking, I was replacing the plugs about 1 month after this repair and 3 of the 4 plugs on the drivers side were loose.
Back to the point of my post: I kept having this minor oil spot in garage and couldn't figure out what it was until yesterday. I was sitting at a light and noticed smoke, so I'm thinking look at this piece of @#$% next to me smoking. Then I realized it was me, the leak has gotten so bad it's spraying oil all the way to the transmission and getting on the exhaust and burning. I got home and after some looking around I spotted the leak in the timing chain cover. Now I have to figure out should I put my stock pulley back on and let them tighten it too much again so they will fix the leak they created when replacing the head or do I fix it myself.
My thought is to take it back to them but when I put my stock pulley back on, clean the threads really well and put some permanent thread lock and tighten the mess out of it and let them see how it feels. Hopefully, it will force them to get me a new pulley because they won't be able to get it off with out breaking something.
Jason
You would think, that since they pulled the motor and replaced a head for a spark plug coming out, that they would check the plugs on the other head. Well thats what I get for thinking, I was replacing the plugs about 1 month after this repair and 3 of the 4 plugs on the drivers side were loose.
Back to the point of my post: I kept having this minor oil spot in garage and couldn't figure out what it was until yesterday. I was sitting at a light and noticed smoke, so I'm thinking look at this piece of @#$% next to me smoking. Then I realized it was me, the leak has gotten so bad it's spraying oil all the way to the transmission and getting on the exhaust and burning. I got home and after some looking around I spotted the leak in the timing chain cover. Now I have to figure out should I put my stock pulley back on and let them tighten it too much again so they will fix the leak they created when replacing the head or do I fix it myself.
My thought is to take it back to them but when I put my stock pulley back on, clean the threads really well and put some permanent thread lock and tighten the mess out of it and let them see how it feels. Hopefully, it will force them to get me a new pulley because they won't be able to get it off with out breaking something.
Jason