Thursday would have been one month that the truck would have been at the dealer with check engine light on. Got the call to come get it. Before I had the truck in my possession I got a Raptor style grill. Installed it immediately. 28 months later on comes the light. 2.7 engine. There are 2 push pins that hold the snorkel of the air filter onto the radiator cover.(slam panel) I left them out. This let the suction of the running engine curl the snorkel up blocking off the air flow. A very determined tec found the problem. He even made a video using a camera with a scope..

 

I'd like to see that video.

 

I did this once. The giant sucking sound tipped me off.

 

Determined tech LMAO. If it took them A MONTH to find that I would be worried about the people who were honestly looking at your truck and caring for it.

 

LOL. My 3.5 sucked it in completely when I was hunting down a boost leak while also doing work behind the grill. Didn't trip any codes or affect performance, but when I popped the hood to remove the partially mounted grill, seeing it sucked in like that made me jump. There's a lot of velocity there to suck it in like that.

 

LOL, that ain't the first time. Embarrassing?

 

They charged me $135.00 so I don’t think he spent many hours on it.

 

volvodoc, what's their shop rate?? At out shop that is 1.5 hours !!!!!

 

I had no idea this was possible.

 

Sounds about right. Couldn't replicate it enough to locate the problem or the tech felt so dumb he surrendered to only an hours pay.