My truck is sick

[ionbeam]

Do it all but the plugs. Only ****** up people replace them before 100,000 miles, or so I've been told.

:lol: :lol: :lol: An analogy to what 'the other thread' was saying is you have to have a full blown heart attack before you need to anything about general health maintenance. Don't change those plugs until it fails to start and run. I believe SouthernFJR truck had that heart attack, so it is OK to do the maintenance now. :blink:

 

[jestal]

Do it all but the plugs. Only ****** up people replace them before 100,000 miles, or so I've been told.

Rad,

I don't remember anyone calling you "****** up" for replacing plugs sooner than 100K. You are inventing this.

Get the chip off your shoulder. Anytime I (or anyone else) posts any sort of technical information that might disagree with your viewpiont you pitch a bitch and threaten to take your toys and go home. Grow up. There are a variety of viewpoints, lots of different data and lots of other people who also have a great deal of experience out there. Just because someone posts something different or contradictory you do not need to take it personally. There has been no personal attack on you but I am a bit sick of the veiled snide remarks towards me.

I realize that my experience of 35 years does not count in your "real world" but just for the record I see the same sort of myopia in the service and repair industry that you seem to suspect I have. The service and repair industry sees nothing but failed parts....so they assume ALL the parts like that must be failing. Wake up. For each Crown Vic that had a bad plug there are millions going 100K without a plug change.

Enough of my rant. I'll not take my toys and go home and I will continue to post technical info I have access to when time and relevence is appropriate. If you feel threatened or put off by this just skip my posts instead of sulking and making snide remarks.

 

[radman]

Rad,
I don't remember anyone calling you "****** up" for replacing plugs sooner than 100K. You are inventing this.

Get the chip off your shoulder. Anytime I (or anyone else) posts any sort of technical information that might disagree with your viewpiont you pitch a bitch and threaten to take your toys and go home. Grow up. There are a variety of viewpoints, lots of different data and lots of other people who also have a great deal of experience out there. Just because someone posts something different or contradictory you do not need to take it personally. There has been no personal attack on you but I am a bit sick of the veiled snide remarks towards me.

I realize that my experience of 35 years does not count in your "real world" but just for the record I see the same sort of myopia in the service and repair industry that you seem to suspect I have. The service and repair industry sees nothing but failed parts....so they assume ALL the parts like that must be failing. Wake up. For each Crown Vic that had a bad plug there are millions going 100K without a plug change.

Enough of my rant. I'll not take my toys and go home and I will continue to post technical info I have access to when time and relevence is appropriate. If you feel threatened or put off by this just skip my posts instead of sulking and making snide remarks.

Alternatively, you can follow some of the ******-up advice you've read in this thread. Your bike; your choice.

Wasn't directed at you, not at all. Who has the chip now? I defend my viewpoint best as I can, but I write a piss poor dissertation, so it seems the best writeup is taken as gospel. For the record, all our Crown Vics (7) have needed plugs well before 30,000 miles. As for the rest, :****: I leave when I get pissed off, and before I say something I'll regret later. So, take that toys line and.........here I go again.

 

[NoCage]

:jerry: The real problem was 3-fold: 1, the truck was paid off a few months ago; 2, I told someone earlier in the week that the truck had never failed to start or had stranded me; 3, the truck is jealous because the FJR is now my first love (vehicle). But, thanks for your help anyway. :grin:

 

[v65]

Crank sensor that was my first, second, well ok 29th guess. Let us know if the repairs actually work.

 

[jestal]

Wasn't directed at you, not at all. Who has the chip now? I defend my viewpoint best as I can, but I write a piss poor dissertation, so it seems the best writeup is taken as gospel. For the record, all our Crown Vics (7) have needed plugs well before 30,000 miles. As for the rest, :****: I leave when I get pissed off, and before I say something I'll regret later. So, take that toys line and.........here I go again.

No chip on my shoulder. And not directed at me...???? I'm just reacting to the:

"This is why I need to shy away from these discussions. Someone asks advice, I offer what I've learned over 40+ years of wrenching on both street and race machines, reading thousands of tech papers, articles, books, and hands on experience on almost every type of engine known to me. I stay current, I can still polarize a generator, I can still overhaul from memory a 49 Buick Stromberg, set up a SixPack induction system, overhaul and synch a set of 4 CV carbs in an afternoon, but I just can't seem to get past that I believe a motorcycle engine is a high performance machine, and should get treated as such. Where I don't mind running a set of plugs in my Merc engine 30 thousand miles, I just can't imagine doing the same in my FJR. From the moment they're installed, plugs start wearing. Good plugs last longer, the best longer yet, thats why I use them. But always, an engine just tuned deteriorates from the moment it's started. My "****** up advice" would be to listen to those other guys. They'll save you the $25 my advise would cost you every 8-10 thousand miles. Lord knows it's a hard job, 20 minutes out of ones life can't be recovered, and the $.0025 per mile cost is unlikely to be recovered.

dissertation entered immediately after I made the comments about what I had observed with spark plugs. Obviously aimed at me and it pissed me off. What can I say?

 

[Windjammer]

Obviously aimed at me and it pissed me off. What can I say?

Ummm, dude, you failed to observe the second quote (from WC's post) in his post above. Obviously his post came after yours in sequence, but was NOT directed at you.

My "****** up advice" would be to listen to those other guys.

This bit here is the tip off.
it seems to be a misunderstanding....

 

[ionbeam]

My "****** up advice" would be to listen to those other guys.

This bit here is the tip off.

it seems to be a misunderstanding....

Yes indeedie. Rad moves freely through fourth dimensional posting and in this case he took an attitude in one thread about spark plugs and expressed his atti-tude here with out the appropriate link Rad had suggested that spark plugs should be changed as part of normal maintenance but the subsequent posts (approaching a dog pile) advocated leaving plugs in until something starts to go bad or fail. Guess it's a life style decision. Perhaps the next time Rad reenters from Tralfamadore (Google it) he will have some words of wisdom :blink:

 

[Oldwin1]

Sounds like a great reason to treat yourself to a new truck. They smell good.

 

[Ramblin Man]

I have always wanted to know how and why you polarize a generator.

I'm serious.

Seriously.

 

[radman]

I have always wanted to know how and why you polarize a generator.
I'm serious.

Seriously.

Polarization is a procedure which matches the polarity for the generator and the voltage regulator. The majority of vehicles are manufactured negative ground although some of the older vehicles were manufactured positive ground. The generator has to be set up for either polarity. The generator will charge either way, however the voltage regulator has only one polarity. Whenever the battery is disconnected from the vehicle for any reason the polarization procedure should be performed, though a capacitor on the generator can maintain polarity unless the regulator and generator are separated by disconnecting the wiring, IIRC.