F250 Fails at Ike Gauntlet

Grit dog wrote:

STEVEO496 wrote:

Bird Freak wrote:
If its man made it will fail. The question is when.

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Speaking of fail, never seen anyone strap a vehicle down like that before. Why couldn't he just swap trucks instead of paying a tow bill??

Cause those guys are ding dongs. You watch any of their other vids?

That is a manufacturer truck. It is not their call on what to do with it after it breaks. Ford will send out their contract people to pick it up.

"We should have your parts in 2 weeks"...

STEVEO496 wrote:

Bird Freak wrote:
If its man made it will fail. The question is when.

X2

Speaking of fail, never seen anyone strap a vehicle down like that before. Why couldn't he just swap trucks instead of paying a tow bill??

Cause those guys are ding dongs. You watch any of their other vids?

IdaD wrote:
$hit happens. A water pump put me and my girls on the side of the freeway last week. Failures aren't common but they happen to all of them from time to time.

That sucks. But from the Ram internet drivel of recent, seems that Cummins water pumps are now in the spotlight for early failures.

Bird Freak wrote:
If its man made it will fail. The question is when.

X2

Speaking of fail, never seen anyone strap a vehicle down like that before. Why couldn't he just swap trucks instead of paying a tow bill??

Powerdude wrote:
That happened to my mother-in-law with her Toyota Tacoma. Truck had about 100k miles on it.

Fan clutch and fan separated from the shaft, chewed through the radiator, caused loss of coolant.

Unfortunately, she drove it for about 10 minutes like that listening to a book on tape.

After paying 2 grand to fix the radiator/fan assembly, they found out that she burned the rings on two cylinders.

Could happen to any brand really. Tons of stories like that.

Seriously thinking about switching my truck to two electric fans.

I feel ya, but trust me - I manage the service floor of a hot rod restoration shop, and while I'll typically suggest e-fan upgrades to some older cars (low HP, smaller vehicles, street driven) - I really don't look at e-fans the same way I used to.

I got a 4-core aluminum radiator for a customer with a '70 Buick GSX w/ 455, nice aluminum shroud, and a high-flow SPAL 16" fan, and the thing was still incapable of keeping the motor cool on a hot day with AC on if you were moving slowly at low revs.

Threw the clutch fan back in with an HD/truck clutch and it's been perfect ever since.

I've also seen truck fans MAX OUT (ironically a Ford F350) totally locked up and I was still watching the temp gauge increase.

I THOUGHT the fan would blow up, but it seemed like the engine would before the fan did - barely crested the hill as the temp almost hit red.

When those clutch fans (full) lock up, there's just nothing else that will flow that amount of air.

IdaD wrote:
$hit happens. A water pump put me and my girls on the side of the freeway last week. Failures aren't common but they happen to all of them from time to time.

Sorry to hear that.
I understand it's a common problem with our trucks.
Hope it was a warranty repair.
Maybe RAM/Cummins will come up with a long-term solution.

If its man made it will fail. The question is when.

Must be the season for such things. Had my fan separate from the fan clutch on a 3.9T Cummins in my Case CX 160 Excavator. $3000 in damage to radiator and assorted components, to say nothing of the repair time cost. Sucks.

$hit happens. A water pump put me and my girls on the side of the freeway last week. Failures aren't common but they happen to all of them from time to time.