A Little Mechanical Diversion

Peter Rideout

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Our son, now 20, is pretty handy and will try anything.
We bought an '05 F350 last summer in support of his asphalt repair business. It had a (hard) previous life and came with some surprises. Before Christmas, it was showing signs it had a bad injector, so he got it analysed, identified which one, ordered an after-market replacement, downloaded some how-to video and the project was on. In spite of all our big old buldings we don't have a proper place to do mechanical work, so a friend generously gave us a couple days' use of his serious, big, warm, well-lit farm shop.
Well, about twelve hours work later, the offending injector was replaced and the others all removed, cleaned and put back with new o-rings, changed transmission fluid and filters (maybe for the first time ever:(), changed fuel filters and after some cranking and bleeding, she came to life again!
He did this all himself and I mostly looked over his shoulder, ran for supplies, filters etc a couple of times and offered fatherly (sometimes unsolicited :D ) advice. No parts left over!We were impressed.
Here's a couple of pics of the valve cover off, oil bus removed and injectors exposed - about 3-4 hours of dismantling to get to this point.

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Thanks for looking! :wave:

Now, back to woodworking.
 
Very cool Peter. Makes me a happy happy man to hear there are youngsters like this. He did well on the time. Congratulate him from me.
Peter tell him to check out you tube. Recently when i was helping my youngster fix his car, i found a video i cant seem to find now where a guy showed a neat easy to make fuel injector cleaner and tester. I picked up parts for it from Princess Auto and the local scrap yard.
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Thanks Rob. Gotta like Princess Auto - one of our favourite places!
Youtube was actually where he found the step-by-step videos specific to this engine. There's even on-line email support, which was also very helpful in answering questions, what to look/listen for etc.
Our farmer friend commented this was the first time he could remember seeing a laptop involved in a job in his shop! I think he was exaggerating a bit.
 
Way to go, son of Peter!

I think that boy will make out just fine, there are a lot fewer young guys out there now that know how to make things work, you can't outsource a job like that to India :D

You got to be really proud of him for this success, as well as he is proud of himself!

Cheers!
 
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