Recent content by oilhammer

Enjoying a nice steak for dinner tonight, cooked on a charcoal grill, and a ride into town in the big block F250 for ice cream afterwards....in nwdriver's honor.

Third time: not a switch. A sensor. And they never fail on the ALH cars. Typical 3-wire sensor: Power, Ground, Signal back to controller (in this case, the solid state Fan Control Module). Here is Dan's thread...

Peter, that has been my point all along (and why I am continually scratching my head as to why the high-and-mighty nwdriver spends so much time here trying to indoctrinate US, when we are hardly a problem). When the F150 (gasoline powered) is the single best selling model here, with the equally...

And the Chinese can shut the planet down with one bowl of undercooked bat soup, LOL. Or a leaky lab.... whatever. They also could shut it down based on manufacturing. Good ol' coal powered manufacturing.

Never heard "01M" and "enjoyable" used in the same sentence. They are about as enjoyable to me as a bee sting on the lip.

It is a ridiculous comparison, that always comes up. They also do not have hordes of non-native people risking their lives to get in.

I've found it to be a pretty consistent source of income for me, and overall a pretty lousy engine family. And when they change something on it, it doesn't necessarily get better. The newer versions, instead of just using an aluminum water pump housing, when to an electronic controlled...

Good ol' Norway, always that shining example. 50% taxes, 97% lily white people, and a GIANT oil/gas export industry funding most of it. Yes, a fantastic place we should all strive to be like. At least they don't need air conditioning.

May have been a TSB, but those were issued a little less frequently back then. These were the GM DOHC and SOHC engines, the DOHC came first, and was known as the Quad 4... later a SOHC version came out. Both were initially 2.3L, then later the SOHC was dropped and replaced with the 2.2L Ecotec...

No sealant, but make certain everything is clean and dry. And check any coolant hoses you come across. Also don't forget about the turbo oil feed pipe support bracket back there.

OK, so the ECU's information on the DPF soot load is done via the Exhaust Differential Pressure Sensors... there are two, the G450 and the G505. Both are in a little bracket together atop the engine. The G505 is the one closest to the timing belt end of the engine. The G450 is the other one...

I thought about that too, but I've never known an ALH EGR cooler to fail, and the couple (AHU) and several (BHW) EGR coolers which are a similar Valeo "log" style design I have seen fail, they go the other way... coolant blows into the intake and exhaust, creating a giant steam cloud out the...

So, I'll ask once more... what DTC(s) are there, specifically? There are probably a half dozen DTCs related to the DPF. And a half dozen more related to the deNOx catalyst. When you install a new DPF, you need to tell the ECU you did so, so it learns the pressure differential pressure sensor...

Probably not any risk, I doubt you'd strip the block or anything. Just know that the initial torque of the head bolts is already VERY tight. I'm no tinkerbell, and that last 90 degrees with a long 1/2" breaker bar is a workout even for me doing all 10. So I don't think you are likely to get...

Search for DSG service. Essentially, you replace a cartridge filter that lives under the battery tray area (air cleaner assembly, battery, battery tray have to come out), then you drain the fluid from underneath, first with the drain plug, then INSIDE the drain plug is another threaded insert...