elrodalexander73
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Had a 2002 F350 I was working on, had damn near brand new valve cover gaskets, injectors, glow plugs ect, all done 50,000 miles ago by previous owner that new owner had bought the truck from. Owner sold truck with 382,000 figuring the dead miss was engine damage and got what he could out of it.. Clean rust free CCLB 4x4 dually that was spotless.. Basically a truck that pulled horse trailers. I removed valve cover, Couldn't find a rub spot, any melted connectors, had to break connector at valve cover area part and found one wire had melted through the sealant they used to keep the wires seperate.. This had to be a Dorman product, or a product of Chinese vintage.. I had seen this before but wasn't positive.. Told the owner he could try a new gasket and harness or order the injectors that the truck was throwing contribution codes for, and start there.. We swapped harnesses real quick and miss went away.. I wish I knew the shop that had performed the work because this was pathetic. I've found that thee only brand that builds the harnesses like International did is Alliant.. Or buy them from International themselves.. Last set of harnesses a customer brought me to install from Ford I pulled them out of the package, flipped them over and they said "made in China".. I said take them back I'm not doing this twice, picked up some Alliants from Full Force locally, haven't seen the truck in almost a year and a half. I wrote this to inform that these Chinese harnesses fail in different ways due to inferior product construction.. I just want the youth of this community to see the difference in what to look for when it comes to making not just modifications but standard repairs.
