Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Had it been serviced?
How many of those at stock power levels were serviced according to the manufacturer's schedule every 30,000 miles?
I thought only the aisin was every 30k?
Make standards great again!
This, the Gladiator has a ZF 8HP and my experience with them has been great. It's better imho the the Ford 10 speeds I have owned and I was pretty happy with those.
My brother did his grid heater check right before coming off warranty and it was about to fall out. Had about two threads left to go before it fell into the intake. Glad he caught it. I have a friend on Facebook that just yesterday had his grid heater bolt fall out and made it into cylinder #6. He’s looking for someone to pull the head off for him so he can see how bad it is.
That's how I solved my 'all auto transmissions are crap' problem
No warning. Started knocking out of nowhere. So he did a google and found the warnings to check the grid heater. So he pulled it and sure enough the dreaded bolt is MIA. Is yours in the year range? It’s only a select few years isn’t it? My brothers is a 17. Do you do facebook? I can give you the link to his post about the one from yesterdayi have heard about this and i worry about mine sometimes, though i dont use the grid heater often at all.
that bolt is worrisome. Banks makes a replacement intake that deletes that heater and that problem. i have thought about doing it about a year ago, and now i may just go ahead and make it happen. 213,000 miles.
what were the symtoms when your friend's let go? any warning?
With how good modern engines and synthetic oils are I think "wear on cold starts" is like 3% of why the heater exists and the other 97% is "to get up to operating temp ASAP for best emissions" but the OEM just lies to the public and pretends that 97% doesn't exist because that's just easier and better for them.
Fixed.
No. But once again you think you know. How many turbo diesel’s have you gone through? The number I believe is higher even than 50%. But it ain’t 💯
Fine then. 99.9. I think anyone who's doing Nate of the North shit where a new truck not starting when cold is actually possible is gonna have a can of ether in the cupholder whether the truck has a grid heater or not. It's a solution in search of a problem when it comes to starting. I think it's mostly there to shave seconds off that long-ass diesel warm up time.
Nope.
Again. No. But I also don’t expect you to be the authority on the matter either. It gets as cold or colder at times in middle USA than it does in Alaska. I thought it got brutal cold where you are but maybe not as cold as I thought you get. It’s comical to start TD’s certain times of the year WITH glow plugs and grid heaters that work right. Pickups, heavy equipment, generators, etc. I’m not talking one off situations either. I’m talking about everyone I know fighting the same issues at the same time on the same day.
The little heater Banks uses is a massive downgrade compared to the grid heater as far as heat output.
I'm used to garbage old skid steers and compact tractors and what not that need a little snort of ether when it's 10-0 out at 6am but are fine the rest of the time.
I've always thought it was weird how some diesels don't need glow plugs or a grid heater and start without fuss while others act like it's -50 when it's barely under 70
Nobody better be using either on new TD’s. With a functional grid heater or glow plugs, or just plugging in the block heater makes them start right up. I’ve seen connecting rods turned into U’s because of either. Fuck that shit, it’s not a good substitute for good OE equipment.
