Posted by jimg.allentown on March 17, 2017 at 06:26:03 from (108.36.80.118):
In Reply to: Ford 350 1996 posted by Superhank on March 16, 2017 at 12:18:02:
Once upon a time... I was working at a Ford dealer. A customer had a Ford wagon that suddenly quit running and would not start. He had it towed to a gas station nearby. After they sunk about $2000 in parts into it, they gave up trying to get it to run. They had it towed up to the dealer I was working for. The service manager handed me the repair order and asked me to take a look at it. I went out to where the car was parked and tried the starter. Battery was dead. So, I went back inside and got a booster battery. Tried it again. Within 5 seconds, I knew what the problem was just by the sound of it. We pushed it into my bay, and I went to work. Changed the timing chain and sprockets. Engine started immediately almost on the first revolution of the starter. Then I was asked to replace all of the parts that the gas station had put on trying to make it run. I said NO!! Let the idiots that put all of those parts on do the job. They wanted to return it all for credit!
The moral of the story?
Diagnosis is your FRIEND!! Check it out BEFORE you start throwing parts at it.
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