If you are paying for these repairs and it is out of warranty :idea:, I would suggest looking for a privately owned international diesel mechanic shop to fix that truck instead, Ford dealers do not know there butt from a hole in the ground when it comes to the diesels and charge way to much money :idea: . Every problem I have had with our 2003 was dealer inflected and when I started during the work myself the problems stopped 8) , I had a friend bring his truck to me a year ago that I had to replace his injectors. He was told early on to run his oil changes at 7500 to 10,000 mile intervals and also ran out of fuel once or twice which is real bad on 7.3 and 6.0 injectors. these engines uses injectors that use oil too compress the fuel to 16.000 and 18.000 PSI in the injectors before it is shot into the cylinder. He had been having this truck serviced by ford and not once did they service the EGR valve which should be done every 20.000 to 30.000 miles, It also had also the injector seats replaced when it was new due to fuel leaking into the oil and they never properly torqued all the turbo boots and had one blow off towing a trailer. Anyways I personally do not trust ford when it comes to diesels due to what I have seen with my truck along with the few others I have did work on. there are much better people out there :idea: Just my two cents worth......

In all the riding around here at least within 150 miles I have not seen a 50 inch rule except for Kennedy meadows. As for fuel cost you are saying that lets say diesel which I run is $4.30 a gallon here and is $3.30 a gallon there :?: . The last trip I did to Phoenix AZ with my Mustang, I seen a 35 cent drop across the boarder in fuel due to the stupid Carb/California special formulation cost or tax on that trip . Anyways someday I will get there to Moab for a trip but it will not be towing our 38 foot 5th wheel because the milage pulling that beast drops to 7 to 8 miles to the gallon in our truck. It would most likely be with the small trialer instead on that run.....

Don't get me wrong Kyle, I am sure Moab is Real nice experience and in the past I have almost considered doing the trip to see everyone . But the trip is 693 miles away one way :idea: , And at a total cost of 100 Gallons of fuel at $4.30 a gallon which comes to $425.70 not including fuel for the Polaris Ranger and hotel fees with food and beer, it is a little hard to swing it at this time in my life. Maybe down the road I will look into it .....

About two miles from were I live as the crow flies. We moved up here in 2000 from the SF valley and kind of regret doing it now due to the Job Market and fuel cost. Would make another move but do to the housing market and my dad getting up there in age we are kind of stuck here. 47th and Pearblossom would be down the road from the Mobile station and swap meet were the newer housing track is. I used to always go up 47th onto mount emma into Pasadena every day until the company that I worked for got bought out and then laid everyone off. Now I try to make ends meet with whatever I can get my hands on till the Job situations become better in California.....

My 2005 Ranger has always made noise. Exhaust joints rattling, Shocks squeaking, And bed rattling. . After many attempts to fix and try to eliminate them, I kind of gave up till something new comes along, then I get concerned till I know what it is and that it will not strand me somewhere   ....

I thought I would start an off topic thread regarding tools. We have a tool distributor called Harbor Freight Tools in California and back east one called Northern Tool Company, I do a lot of business with both including Sears as well at times. Back in the day I also was involved with buying of the tool trucks but the cost has become way over the top with them and now days I have found that a lot of the china made stuff has become almost as good as the tool trucks and at least as good as Sears for 1/8th to ¼ the cost of the tools. I do hate to buy china stuff but I recently bought a 36mm wrench from Northern Tool that cost $12 and sears wanted $70 and car quest wanted like $85 for an SK brand. The NT has the same warranty as Sears as well as equal build quality.

In regards to warranty and having to return broken stuff. I have found that Harbor Freights warranty is as good as Sears in there return policy and in some cases better then Snap On. The last time I broke a Snap on ratchet; the guy did not give me a new one but replaced the broken parts. I have heard this from my other mechanic friends as well in the business and they have started to do business with companies like NT and HF.

I do have one major problem with Harbor Freight and that is they have an online Rating review system that people are supposed to submit reviews about products. In a lot of cases I make decisions on whether to buy something or not from those reviews. When they started that review system over a year ago I submitted one that was negative on some welding gloves and for over a month it was never posted. I contacted Management and raised Hell with them an accused them on only submitting good reviews and tossing out the bad reviews. I also mentioned that if this was there policy, that they should eliminate the review system all together. After that they did post the review. Just last month I sent them four reviews and none of them were posted again. One was a real bad one regarding an air reciprocating saw that I thought was pure junk. I also submitted some very good reviews on the 3/8 Earthquake air ratchet and the ¼ inch Earthquake air ratchet. Also another good one on there ¾ drive air Impact tool. None of the reviews have been posted but I think the Earthquake brand that they carry is being discontinued which is a shame because I think it is one of the best products they have ever carried. I did contact them in regards to the reviews not being posted and they responded several weeks later saying that they randomly pick reviews and post them. I then replied back and ask for what they mean by random? And if random meant only favorable reviews will be posted, they never did respond back to my question.

In regards to Northern Tool, I have been very happy with them in the quality of the tools and they have a well running review system to help with choices. I have posted good and bad on there site and all have been posted except for one that I included a website and they do not allow that. After I removed the link, it was submitted.

I know this is a little off topic but the site has been a little slow lately and so I thought I would stir it up a bit and maybe some of you can add to this thread as well….

Paint color Is nothing that a good job with a rattle can cant fix . But then again the bobcat version of the polaris is white and black ...