Show us what you see!!!

[zipper]

The recall is probably just a warning lable. Not a fix for the instability

Supposedly, both.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

The recall is probably just a warning lable. Not a fix for the instability

I’d have to agree based on the verbiage of recall.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Supposedly, both.

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Wow worse than I had imagined…..by these accounts brp could be facing some serious legal challenges

 

[AZMark]

Chicken for dinner. Savage little hawk (I think?)

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

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Chicken for dinner. Savage little hawk (I think?)

Could be a sharp shinned or Cooper’s hawk. Perhaps @Coult45 could help identify it?

 

[Coult45]

It's SO hard to tell the difference between a Coopers and a Sharpie from a picture, but I think it's definitely one of the two. If it was the size of a crow, it's mostly likely a Coopers. If it was smaller, like the size of a Blue Jay, it's probably a Sharp-shinned.

either way, great shot @AZMark !

 

[lazergeek]

Sorry, Could not resist...

 

[AZMark]

It's SO hard to tell the difference between a Coopers and a Sharpie from a picture, but I think it's definitely one of the two. If it was the size of a crow, it's mostly likely a Coopers. If it was smaller, like the size of a Blue Jay, it's probably a Sharp-shinned.

either way, great shot @AZMark !

Thanks!
Funny you used those for comparison since we were just in the mountains last week and saw a lot of blue jays and crows. The hawk is in between those sizes but pretty small. Maybe we have small blue jays or big crows here

 

[Coult45]

I don't know... @FSH 210 Sport and I might be wrong. @lazergeek has provided some pretty compelling evidence that it's a chicken hawk!

 

[BigN8]

This sailing school heads out every afternoon around 4 PM. They look like little leaf cutter ants crawling across the water. They were joined by some type of Hobie Cat that was ripping across the water maybe doing 20-30 mph.

 

[Murf'n'surf]

This sailing school heads out every afternoon around 4 PM. They look like little leaf cutter ants crawling across the water. They were joined by some type of Hobie Cat that was ripping across the water maybe doing 20-30 mph.

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Sir, if you need someone to carry your luggage and lose on the golf course……hit me up!

 

[BigN8]

This could go in the “cleavage thread” or the “ what did I see thread” but this is me and my dive master heading out for a morning dive. No one else showed up so just her and I hunted lion fish with spears.

Next pic is a more of a full boat with my daughter and her boyfriend along. His first open water dive after getting certified. He did good but burned through his tank very fast.

Last one is me with a fresh kill.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Boating day 32 …yesterday, that’s in 10’ of water, that’s the clearest the water has been all summer. Trolling motor brain stopped communicating with the trolling motor head so no electric trolling motor but I still managed to get in some laker fishing.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Oil change number 3 for this year…. This one will take me through late spring next year if all goes according to plan

 

[zipper]

Been seeing the old bones all Summer...

Video taken from SHSS, took this screenshot from the video. Fishercat on the hard, right side red line. The cat in the video is another PDQ 36 brought up to the Lake this Spring, from Florida, red line on the left. The owner stopped by the other day to introduce himself as I was winterizing our water system.


They will be closer together in a few days.

 

[BigN8]

Man. This chic has a Norah Jones meets Bonnie Rait smokey smooth voice. Play and turn this up!!!

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Bit of a journey here…back ground, had new front pads installed at the dealer and all rotors turned roughly 10,000 miles ago, current mileage 117,000 miles. Right rear brake has been making a bit of a whistling sound under light braking for a while, thought it might have been dirt or something.

My parking brake wasn’t working that great, made an appt with the dealer for 1500 hrs, I asked the SW (service writer), is that enough time for you to work on this you close at 1700 hrs?, SW yes no problem. I showed up half hour early at 1430, then waited for two hours past my appointment time, service writer comes to me and says, “we verified the cable and linkages are all functional”, the tech tried to adjust the brake but it didn’t work. Me thinking to myself, well Ray Charles could have figured out the actuator system was working in a few minutes not two hours. Service Writer (SW) says you’ll have to bring it back in three weeks and I want to get a set of parking brake shoes just in case we need them, Me; Okay as long as I don’t have to pay for them if you don’t need them, SW; nope only if we need them. SW here’s an estimate of $750 if we have to put the shoes in it. Me; Okay let’s see what’s in there.

So I get on you tube university the next day and see how to adjust the top hat parking brake, get under the truck, little the little rubber plugs in the backing plate are dirty and have not been removed, pull them out, adjusters have no tool marks on them, gotta call bullshit on them attempting to adjust them. This is not an easy process, I had to make an adjustment tool out of a screw driver, then spend a couple hours adjusting them, success, parking brake works great. So I drop by the dealer to tell the SW hey I adjusted the parking brake shoes and that is working fine now, but I want to keep the appt since I suspect the right rear caliper is sticking (I have an extended warranty for another 33,000 miles), but my SW isn’t there. Talk to another SW and he tells me well we each have our own teams but let me pull up your ticket, he does and tells me “it says here install parts”, Me; Why would parts need to be installed until it’s known whether or not you’ll need them? SW; I can’t answer that question you’ll have to talk to your SW. Me; okay that makes sense. About that time my SW comes back and I tell him the same story and he says okay well let’s get it apart and see what it needs. Me; Aight see you on my appt day 0730.

So now I’m left with the inescapable conclusion they’re trying to pull a fast one, very disappointing.

Yesterday I pull the rear wheels and pull the right rear caliper, the top slider pin is stuck, the bottom one is free, I used a crescent wrench to rotate it and get it free and find this under the little bellows.


NICE.

I use a file to get off the heavy corrosion and petrified grease, then clean it up with a wire brush. Not great but serviceable since all of the working part of the pin has no corrosion. I used a .45 cal bore brush and Kroil penetrating oil to clean out the bore of the slider pin holes, rinsed with CRC Lectra-Motive contact cleaner and then blew out with compressed air and cleaned up the bellows, the rust was stuck to the sealing lip of the bellows.



Then used the high temp brake silicone grease I got for the boat trailer and lubricated the bore and pin and packed the bellows.




I then checked the other side and found this



On the drivers side the upper pin was stuck and the lower pin was almost stuck. Cleaned them up and they were serviceable, lubricated them and put everything back together.

I checked the pads with a digital caliper and found .015”-.020” of taper from end to the other caused by the stuck pins, checked with my mechanic friend and he said run the pads they’ll correct themselves pretty quickly. My mechanic friend went on to say those are not warrantable items and they would have charged you for new pins, and probably would have wanted to put on a new set of pads. So I’m betting they’d have said I needed new parking brake pads as well as the caliper pins, maybe even calipers, pads and turning of the rotors, Cha Ching. I probably just saved myself $3000 grand by spending an afternoon working on my truck.

If I had done the brakes myself 10,000 miles ago, I would have serviced these caliper pins when I took it apart, that’s just common sense, apparently the tech who worked on these things didn’t think to check these pins, there’s no way these pins got this way in 10,000 miles. I know they had them apart because the shoes / pads had been switched on the drivers side rear, meaning the outboard and inboard pads had been switched as evidenced by the piston marks on both pads. This of course leads me to the fact I’ll have to check these pins front caliper pins at some point in the near future. They were supposed to have flushed the brake fluid / bled the entire system at that time as well, the fluid in the reservoir was definitely changed, but now my suspicion is up and so I’ll have to bleed the calipers and confirm the fluid is new and that they didn’t just pull the fluid in the reservoir and add new.

Needless to say I’ll be calling today to cancel my appointment for next week. I’m contemplating talking to the service manager about this situation and some other things that have happened and how this gives me concern about the competency of the work being done and pause as to whether or not to have any work done by them going forward. Five years ago they did work on my last truck and that service was great, but the quality of their work seems to have dropped off. Very disappointing to say the least. I don’t mind paying top dollar for top dollar work, but not the opposite.

 

[Neutron]

I

Bit of a journey here…back ground, had new front pads installed at the dealer and all rotors turned roughly 10,000 miles ago, current mileage 117,000 miles. Right rear brake has been making a bit of a whistling sound under light braking for a while, thought it might have been dirt or something.

My parking brake wasn’t working that great, made an appt with the dealer for 1500 hrs, I asked the SW (service writer), is that enough time for you to work on this you close at 1700 hrs?, SW yes no problem. I showed up half hour early at 1430, then waited for two hours past my appointment time, service writer comes to me and says, “we verified the cable and linkages are all functional”, the tech tried to adjust the brake but it didn’t work. Me thinking to myself, well Ray Charles could have figured out the actuator system was working in a few minutes not two hours. Service Writer (SW) says you’ll have to bring it back in three weeks and I want to get a set of parking brake shoes just in case we need them, Me; Okay as long as I don’t have to pay for them if you don’t need them, SW; nope only if we need them. SW here’s an estimate of $750 if we have to put the shoes in it. Me; Okay let’s see what’s in there.

So I get on you tube university the next day and see how to adjust the top hat parking brake, get under the truck, little the little rubber plugs in the backing plate are dirty and have not been removed, pull them out, adjusters have no tool marks on them, gotta call bullshit on them attempting to adjust them. This is not an easy process, I had to make an adjustment tool out of a screw driver, then spend a couple hours adjusting them, success, parking brake works great. So I drop by the dealer to tell the SW hey I adjusted the parking brake shoes and that is working fine now, but I want to keep the appt since I suspect the right rear caliper is sticking (I have an extended warranty for another 33,000 miles), but my SW isn’t there. Talk to another SW and he tells me well we each have our own teams but let me pull up your ticket, he does and tells me “it says here install parts”, Me; Why would parts need to be installed until it’s known whether or not you’ll need them? SW; I can’t answer that question you’ll have to talk to your SW. Me; okay that makes sense. About that time my SW comes back and I tell him the same story and he says okay well let’s get it apart and see what it needs. Me; Aight see you on my appt day 0730.

So now I’m left with the inescapable conclusion they’re trying to pull a fast one, very disappointing.

Yesterday I pull the rear wheels and pull the right rear caliper, the top slider pin is stuck, the bottom one is free, I used a crescent wrench to rotate it and get it free and find this under the little bellows.
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NICE.

I use a file to get off the heavy corrosion and petrified grease, then clean it up with a wire brush. Not great but serviceable since all of the working part of the pin has no corrosion. I used a .45 cal bore brush and Kroil penetrating oil to clean out the bore of the slider pin holes, rinsed with CRC Lectra-Motive contact cleaner and then blew out with compressed air and cleaned up the bellows, the rust was stuck to the sealing lip of the bellows.

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Then used the high temp brake silicone grease I got for the boat trailer and lubricated the bore and pin and packed the bellows.

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I then checked the other side and found this

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On the drivers side the upper pin was stuck and the lower pin was almost stuck. Cleaned them up and they were serviceable, lubricated them and put everything back together.

I checked the pads with a digital caliper and found .015”-.020” of taper from end to the other caused by the stuck pins, checked with my mechanic friend and he said run the pads they’ll correct themselves pretty quickly. My mechanic friend went on to say those are not warrantable items and they would have charged you for new pins, and probably would have wanted to put on a new set of pads. So I’m betting they’d have said I needed new parking brake pads as well as the caliper pins, maybe even calipers, pads and turning of the rotors, Cha Ching. I probably just saved myself $3000 grand by spending an afternoon working on my truck.

If I had done the brakes myself 10,000 miles ago, I would have serviced these caliper pins when I took it apart, that’s just common sense, apparently the tech who worked on these things didn’t think to check these pins, there’s no way these pins got this way in 10,000 miles. I know they had them apart because the shoes / pads had been switched on the drivers side rear, meaning the outboard and inboard pads had been switched as evidenced by the piston marks on both pads. This of course leads me to the fact I’ll have to check these pins front caliper pins at some point in the near future. They were supposed to have flushed the brake fluid / bled the entire system at that time as well, the fluid in the reservoir was definitely changed, but now my suspicion is up and so I’ll have to bleed the calipers and confirm the fluid is new and that they didn’t just pull the fluid in the reservoir and add new.

Needless to say I’ll be calling today to cancel my appointment for next week. I’m contemplating talking to the service manager about this situation and some other things that have happened and how this gives me concern about the competency of the work being done and pause as to whether or not to have any work done by them going forward. Five years ago they did work on my last truck and that service was great, but the quality of their work seems to have dropped off. Very disappointing to say the least. I don’t mind paying top dollar for top dollar work, but not the opposite.

I know first hand the type of mechanics that the dealership calls "certified" they are slow, uneducated, distracted, messy, and have no idea how simple systems like brakes are suposed to function.
I wont let them touch my vehicles.
I get lifetime free oil changes and rotations on my 4runner and Tundra but only trust Maybe 2 guys to do even that properly. I had zero comebacks and very thorough and very efficient when i was a tech
This new generation of "technician" are in their phone all day instead of focusing on their job. And the service writers are just as useless

 

[lazergeek]

I
I know first hand the type of mechanics that the dealership calls "certified" they are slow, uneducated, distracted, messy, and have no idea how simple systems like brakes are suposed to function.
I wont let them touch my vehicles.
I get lifetime free oil changes and rotations on my 4runner and Tundra but only trust Maybe 2 guys to do even that properly. I had zero comebacks and very thorough and very efficient when i was a tech
This new generation of "technician" are in their phone all day instead of focusing on their job. And the service writers are just as useless

Plus dealership service writers and mechanics are paid by commission too which adds to the problem. The best thing you can do is rip them on the surveys which takes away from money from the manufactures thus causing change at the dealership.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

I
I know first hand the type of mechanics that the dealership calls "certified" they are slow, uneducated, distracted, messy, and have no idea how simple systems like brakes are suposed to function.
I wont let them touch my vehicles.
I get lifetime free oil changes and rotations on my 4runner and Tundra but only trust Maybe 2 guys to do even that properly. I had zero comebacks and very thorough and very efficient when i was a tech
This new generation of "technician" are in their phone all day instead of focusing on their job. And the service writers are just as useless

I’ll try and make this short as possible.

The Bosch 4.1 high pressure fuel injector pump that Ford uses in their diesel engines, has, in my opinion gotten a bad rap for failures. The overwhelming reason why these pumps fail is due to improper fuel filter changing procedures, WHICH!, is clearly spelled out in the owners manual. Basically after changing the fuel filters you turn on the ignition which causes the electric lift fuel pump to run for 30 seconds, you repeat this process 10 times to purge the air from the system. You can hear the air gurgling through the secondary 4 micron fuel filter in the engine bay while it’s purging. When I changed the fuel filters on my last 6.7L diesel not only would I do the 10 cycles, but if I could still hear any air coming through I’d repeat until I could not hear any more air coming through..,maybe an additional 2-3 cycles. The other way these pumps fail is by running the vehicle out of fuel and getting massive amounts of air into the fuel system. Adding fuel to the tank while the engine is running aerates the fuel and is also bad for these pumps as well as other pumps.

So, being that I bought the 150,000 extended bumper to bumper warranty, I’ve had the dealer change the fuel filters. On a couple of occasions fuel was spilled under the hood and onto the fender well because nothing was put under the work area to catch any spilled fuel, a small PIG blanket would be best for this. This stunk like crazy…I had to clean it up after I got home. There was a bunch of other fuck ups with that particular fuel filter change, all my air valve caps on my tires were left off, air pressure adjusted when I specifically stated not to do so, windshield was “cleaned” and that looked like a blind man did it with shitty old washer fluid, greasy fucking hand print on the inside of my door and on the steering wheel - I sent pictures, which I wrote a scathing letter to the owner about, she wrote me back with a question of how they could keep my business with an offer of discounts etc… I told her I was not looking for any handouts, I wanted to let her know that was what was happening and I’m sure I was not the only customer who had experienced these issues and that I’d give them one more try, but this was the fault of management and lack of QC so she should start with them. The next time was much better, but I think I’m done with their quick lane services aka fuel filter changes.

I’m going to have to have the transmission serviced soon… I’m not sure if I have an option for that, there’s an independent repair place that does good work I’ll have too see if they have the equipment, which I do not have, to do that service. But, if I have the dealer do it and it fucks up they own it and I’d get a new transmission out of it… gotta hit you tube university for that as well.