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Hey fellas. I've got a '13 E-350 SD van. Rear parking brakes trashed along with everything else i.e. rotors, calipers, stripped guide pins etc. I'm stuck trying to compress the parking brake return spring so I can remove the lever. Very limited youtube vids. The return spring isn't "bee hive" shaped like in almost all vids where the mechanic just grabs the spring to compress and remove cable jacket from mount and then unhook from lever. Tried the door spring compressor to no avail. Just keeps sliding off. Prying with screwdrivers and all other various attempts failing. I know what has to be done to remove the lever from the cable. Get spring out of the way, compress the ears on the cable jacket and remove cable from mount. There must be an easy systematic approach to this.
Rusted frozen lever common problem apparently, but just can't find anything on the web????
FWIW I wouldn't have let my brakes get this bad. Bought the truck from very large out of state dealer and was assured several times that this truck was gone over by their best mechanics. It was good to go! Got it back here to Pa. from Ohio and failed Pa.inspection. Front rotors, pads and ball joints shot. Got that handled and moved to the rear. I guess the dealers "best" mechanics don't have inspection licenses.   

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Non-FE Discussion Forum / UPS not much better this past week
« on: April 07, 2018, 07:36:40 PM »
UPS calls me Friday. Ask me if I want to take delivery of my shipment Monday or Wednesday between 11 am to 5 pm? I have to sign for a custom size window well. Just exactly what you may picture in your mind. Galvanized corrugated steel. Not big at all. Sign for it??? Can't just leave it my porch?? Ask the woman what do I do about work? Take off 6 hrs. from work??? Tells me that's the rules. I ask can I come pick it up? She says sure. We're open until 10 pm. I drive 45 minutes to the facility at 8 pm after a full day workin'. I'm in southeast Pa. Girl behind the window tells me window well is not here. WTF! I ask where is it? She checks and then informs me it's in Indiana. To boot, girl behind window appears to not give a s--t! No apologies for the mix up.                                                                                 

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Non-FE Discussion Forum / 5.4 oil leaks
« on: April 03, 2018, 09:10:16 PM »
I'm having a problem with a pretty bad oil leak now at 155,000 miles. Apparently Ford was/is aware of it. Burrs left on the deck surface after block machining interfering or compromising the gasket surrounding the oil ports. Or something like that. Oil leaking from head gasket passenger side rear and drivers side front. Pressurized oil ports from deck to head leaking out pretty bad. They have a revised head gasket that has the embossed areas slightly relocated. Gives the new gasket "fresh meat" deck surfaces to seal against. Original OEM gasket embossing can brinnel (?) into the deck surfaces. I have a 2001 5.4 with the PI heads. Limited years though. Course I have the bullseye year. And to boot, it's in an E-350! Engine under the dash.  Don't know what year you have. Search it out on the web and you'll get plenty of references to the problem.

Pop the dog house and take a look. Not hard to spot seeping or leaking on passenger side.

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FE Technical Forum / Re: HELP! Knocking sound from 390
« on: August 23, 2016, 01:10:04 PM »
Just shooting from the hip here and maybe barking up the wrong tree....................but if all parameters with the engine check out i.e., oil pressure, power, no misses or hiccups, compression, still pulls out hard etc., I would ask manual or automatic trans? The guys here have a whole lot more experience than me. Maybe if auto, a converter bolt, flex plate bolt, converter after trans fluid heats up? Manual trans, well maybe flywheel bolt, pressure plate bolt or such. Little too much crank thrust clearance??

Does the knocking follow the engine RPM's in park (auto) or neutral (manual)?? A broom stick would reach the trans or general area of the bellhousing from underneath the car. I have used a stethoscope myself and it's an invaluable tool to at least get you in the right neighborhood.

Good luck and stick to it. Not my intention to send you on a wild goose chase.

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Member Projects / Re: Garden block test mule
« on: August 17, 2016, 07:13:17 PM »
Also got my vacuum pump and alternator pulleys installed along with my crank trigger wheel and sensor and bracket assembly..
Baby steps...




Hey Keith, tell me more about the crank trigger arrangement. Chebby stuff? Maybe a brief description? What it took or take to make it work? I have a project in the wind and a crank trigger will be an ignition option. Suffice it to say, there won't be any room for a distributor.
Really nice fab work so far. Kudo's

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Look through, I think. one of the center core plugs or down through the rear water jacket openings at the rear. You will see "428" cast in the floor at the base of the cylinders. BIG NOTE: The numbers can be difficult to see. I shine a light in from one of the core plugs or from the water jacket openings at the decks. When you get the light just right, the numbers will sorta cast a shadow off themselves. IIRC shining a light directly at the numbers might make it more difficult to see.  If "428" is there, you will see them.  Good hunting

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