Where should I start, radiator, front drive which failed 6 months later and 2 weeks to fix and they only covered 250 out of $1000 of labor, 1 injector, 1 fuel return tube between head 2 and 3 which needed head 1 to be taken off. poor fuel mileage.Many air leaks. And many other constant problems. I put about 20k into it this year and did not like it one bit because of the down time. Whether I fixed myself or hired it done I have about 2 months of downtime this year. And it still needed a lot more to keep it going. So I washed my hands of it and started over.
I went over to the darkside(bought a 2011)
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Just a question but radiator and front drive and air leaks have nothing to do with N14. And the they only covered $250. So you had some kinda warranty? So it was some kind of lease truck? I'm pretty confused. -
I imagine the warranty was on the diff. Sounds like the shop covered the parts but only $250 of the labor. They made him pay anyway with the two week turnaround. That's a jokeRuthless and Pnwtrucker Thank this.
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Ya the 2 week thing seemed crazy.rank Thanks this.
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That's a problem with buying an old truck. Not sure how long the OP owned the FLD but you have to imagine the other guy sold it for a reason. Bought a 98 T8 in 2006 for $18k and spent $13k on the first year but eventually got it up to snuff. Still running it. I know what I have. If I bought another one I'd have to play catch up all over again. It's a Cummins by the way.
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Warranty job. Paying customers come first
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Yes that and they started replacing a ujoint and a carrier bearing which took 3 days trying to blame anything else before they even pulled the fill plug on the diff which was full of shavings. I guess I should have made them put the old parts back on but oh well.rank Thanks this.
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I forgot to add it turned out to be the pinion shaft bearing that failed.
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