sammyg

Yep,I sure do,but what has that got to do with the problem I'm having with my truck.Is the most modern and technologically advanced phone on the market today going to fix my truck for me ? Hell no it won't,all it will be able to do is access the internet like I'm doing with a laptop computer and try to find a solution to my problem. You must be like most of my kids and grandkids, if I could snap my fingers and make cell phones and their technology vanish and be non-existant you would probably be just like them and be lost and lose your mind without that phone to fend for you.

techrep

iTrader: (1)

I'm old like you buddy.. but, COP's are not difficult...very simple .. you just sounded like you are old school with the points and distributor comment which is what I grew up with also..

sammyg

Very old school,for myself,if Ford had built a crewcab 4X4 F150 in the late 1970's with all the creature comforts my 2007 has, believe me, that's what I'd be driving. At least I could work on that. When I can ,I do my own mechanic work,but with today's modern vehicles that just about limits me to brakes,suspension problems,and such.It's just hard for me grasp modern technology at times. My apologies if I offended you with my last post ,just real frustrated with this truck and it's technology right now.

techrep

iTrader: (1)

Offend me ?? please.. it's all good buddy.

redfishtd

Don't want no Iphone . I guess if I was dating all the young girls I would have one .
I agree with you ,they have made working on these vehicles a misery . I can see more people giving up their cars in the future. The computer is not all that , It doesn't give you a heads up on a lot of miss fires . Takes 20 seconds of missing to set a code . I don't know what gives up in those coils but its a pain .
I carry several new ones in my truck after having to limp 20 miles to an hot auto zone in the heat and have them read it , luckily I carry the tools to change it in their parking lot . I was a hundred miles into an important trip of 500 miles ,got her up an running in an hour .
Not having a shrader valve on the fuel rail sucks , you can't check pressure or bleed fuel rail down . The fuel pump relay is soldered into the back of the fuse panel . All this makes it harder to work on .
Pulling and replacing injectors is not that hard ,fairly easy really . I decided to change all the injectors myself rather than fool with some one charging the same to check them at 100k miles. I run some techron thru every so often now .
As old as I am I'll be damned if I can't fix it , with you tube and the forums ,I can do it . I did the whole timing job and lifted cams and replaced lash adjusters . And I don't like working on cars that much .
My step son could not hack these new systems so we got him manifolds and carburetors but finally all those vehicles are sitting in the yard broken down .
He is driving a fuel injected computer car now after we told him he can't escape this stuff at 51 years old .
Some of the people on here amaze me ,they even tear into these transmissions which I don't want to do . I keep learning new stuff on here if I wasn't 71 I would learn how to rebuild transmissions too .
How many of these guys can't get a decent job , If I were them I would learn transmissions really well and always have a job . You can't really find good transmissions in a junk yard now .
Hang in there and don't let the bastards wear you down .

sammyg

Thanks for encouragement,it is appreciated.I can work on this truck if I absolutely have to, but to me, it's a real pain in the behind when you pop the hood and stare at a plumber's nightmare knowing you have to remove half of everything attached to the engine and move it out of the way to be able to get to and fix one small item.