Funny moment of the day.....

[clinebarger]

One of our "Car Lot" accounts had a 2015 Ford F250 Crew 4x4 Lariat with a 6.2L/6R140 combo towed to the shop directly from the Auction with a No Start complaint.

Did all the normal Auction Rat checks.....
*Charge the battery because they are always dead.
*Check oil level....Good.
*Check Fuel pressure & take a Fuel sample (Deadbeats love to fill fuel tanks with water when they can no longer afford the payments), No problems found.
*Hook up the scanner....No codes as the battery was dead.
*Attempt to start the engine resulted in a large backfire through the Intake.
*Watched the Cam/Crank Sync PID with the subsequent start attempt......NO GOOD!

Pulled both Valve Covers, Set #1 piston at TDC.......Bank 2 camshaft has jumped time 4-5 teeth on the Timing Chain & Tensioner is maxxed out. Bank 1 isn't far behind.
Lot's of sludge as well.

Mileage on the Odometer is 53832 & the Mileage stored in the PCM is 53834.
Engine Hours show 27,734

........It's just broke in right!!! My Duramax has @ 19,000 hours on it & just north of 400,000 miles.

We called the customer & he was very upset......Couldn't believe a engine can wear out in 53,000 miles. Trying to explain engine hours to some people is very difficult.

I'll snap some pics of the engine once I get the Cab lifted.

 

[FordBroncoVWJeta]

Did he leave the truck on at night?

 

[OVERKILL]

UNREAL!!!

 

[dishdude]

4.5 year old truck that was run 17 hours a day? Any indication it was a commercial truck? Curious what this was used for to have so much idle time.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Used by the boss of a city sewage department work crew ?

 

[CT8]

The engine oil wasn't changed or not changed enough.

 

[clinebarger]

Originally Posted by dishdude
4.5 year old truck that was run 17 hours a day? Any indication it was a commercial truck? Curious what this was used for to have so much idle time.



None! Has all the normal "Brodozer" stuff done.....6" Lift, Black rims, Toyo A/T tires. The Body & Interior are in really good shape. The unlined bed floor even looks good!

 

[clinebarger]

Originally Posted by Snagglefoot
Used by the boss of a city sewage department work crew ?


I'm thinking some kind of Gas Well service.

 

[Warstud]

Maybe they left it running during the winter so it was always warm inside.

 

[PPWarrior]

Seems like they lived inside the truck. Probably an "oil field welder millionaire"?

 

[02SE]

I'm glad my hobbies are more interesting than just idling my truck...

 

[GMguy84]

With that type of mileage wouldn't it still be under warranty or extended ??


Dave

 

[P10crew]

Good one snaggle! Sewage dept. foreman rolling in a Brodozer! Nice nice

 

[mattd]

Thats impressive hours with the road mileage.

 

[Nick1994]

Any chance that's an error in the ECU or it's a used ECU?

 

[Chris142]

The security guards around here idle all night.

 

[MrMoody]

That number of hours fails the sanity check, it can't be right. The condition can be explained by lack of oil changes. I wouldn't be surprised if the factory oil filter is still on it.

Edit to add, that number is fairly close to 100,000,000 seconds, it has to be a misread/misinterpret or been tampered.

 

[clinebarger]

Originally Posted by MrMoody
That number of hours fails the sanity check, it can't be right. The condition can be explained by lack of oil changes. I wouldn't be surprised if the factory oil filter is still on it.

Edit to add, that number is fairly close to 100,000,000 seconds, it has to be a misread/misinterpret or been tampered.


It has a Fram Jobber filter on it. And the drain plug has blue & yellow paint pen crap all over it.....So the oil has been changed at least a few times.

Not that I have any way of verifying anything. The Snap-on Solus Ultra I'm using is not some cheap generic code reader that misinterprets data PID's.

 

[JTK]

Wow! It doesn't seem like the hours match the vehicle. Interesting none the less.

Can you break down idle time vs total run time like on Rams?

 

[Superflan]

Maybe you'll put that solus ultra on a similar vehicle only to find that the displayed value is similar in ratio