Very Expensive Preventative Maintenance
For anyone that will be replacing the drive belt on a Ford V-10 anytime soon: If you happen to remove all the plastic trim and air filter housing, etc., please be aware of how you put it back together...
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navegator wrote:
I have been a mechanic for a very long time, when something like that happens, the first thing to do is "what was the last thing I did" and start recheking all that was done backwards until you find the culprit rather than assuming everything you did was correct and start speculating with what if and trying to diagnose a problem that was non existing prior to the last event.
My income depended on doing the job once, now and then there was one that bit hard, those were the lessons of the job.
navegator
Yep. You are correct. I did not see it that way because I took it on several drives to and from the storage location and my house without noticing a problem. It only showed up when I got on the highway. I thought about the last thing I did which was change the belt and air filter. I knew in my mind that it couldn't be the filter since it was new. My next step was to put the old belt back on, but I had no idea how that would cause my issue. I guess I trusted google too much. Everything pointed to the fuel filter.
