What have you done to your powerstroke today?

RSK · Jul 13, 2014

Nothing today. But yesterday i locked the throttle wide open getting onto the highway from 40 and it did a flared shift and lost both overdrive and lock up at the same time and i pulled over and searched on psa about it and someone said to shut the truck off and let it sit for 20-30 mins so i did. Started it up no wrench anymore and it shifted flawlessly all the way to the beach and back home. So i'll scan it today with my sct but probably not gonna find any codes, hopefully it was a tuning glitch or a solenoid glitch.

JrStroker · Jul 13, 2014

RSK said:
Nothing today. But yesterday i locked the throttle wide open getting onto the highway from 40 and it did a flared shift and lost both overdrive and lock up at the same time and i pulled over and searched on psa about it and someone said to shut the truck off and let it sit for 20-30 mins so i did. Started it up no wrench anymore and it shifted flawlessly all the way to the beach and back home. So i'll scan it today with my sct but probably not gonna find any codes, hopefully it was a tuning glitch or a solenoid glitch.

My truck did the same thing about 2 months ago. I could only drive up to 4th. So I had to stop and shut it off. I think it was because if the crappy Spartan tunning. I have custom tunes now and it has never done it again.

RSK · Jul 13, 2014

JrStroker said:
My truck did the same thing about 2 months ago. I could only drive up to 4th. So I had to stop and shut it off. I think it was because if the crappy Spartan tuning. I have custom tunes now and it has never done it again.

I'm not sure about that, my buddy has 60,000 miles on his 08 job 1 f450 with 24" american force wheels with 35's so its heavy combo, with spartan tuning and has had 0 transmission issues, and I have had gear head tuning and my trans just did this. so I don't think poor tuning is the culprit. gonna go scan it with my sct and see if I can pull a code from it if nothing comes up i'll just continue driving it until something happens with it. I'm in hot street too, so its not a small tune but its not in kill mode either.

JrStroker · Jul 13, 2014

RSK said:
I'm not sure about that, my buddy has 60,000 miles on his 08 job 1 f450 with 24" american force wheels with 35's so its heavy combo, with spartan tuning and has had 0 transmission issues, and I have had gear head tuning and my trans just did this. so I don't think poor tuning is the culprit. gonna go scan it with my sct and see if I can pull a code from it if nothing comes up i'll just continue driving it until something happens with it. I'm in hot street too, so its not a small tune but its not in kill mode either.

I had poor performance out of my Spartan tuning. It seemed to just get rougher and rougher on the Trans. Would bang shift all the time too

RSK · Jul 13, 2014

JrStroker said:
I had poor performance out of my Spartan tuning. It seemed to just get rougher and rougher on the Trans. Would bang shift all the time too

yah it depends on what tune you run and if you have traction bars or not, they smooth out the harsh shifting.

RedRice589 · Jul 13, 2014

RSK said:
yah it depends on what tune you run and if you have traction bars or not, they smooth out the harsh shifting.

You have to drive it hard all the time or you need to lay into it a couple times for it to remember. Mine did it. It's the stupid adaptive trannies. My girl would drive it a couple days I'd get in and be easy on it then go to lay into it and wham bam free rev and be like wtf? Then I'd run it through a few times from a stop to 75-80 and it wouldn't so it again until she drove it lol

chromehound · Jul 13, 2014

ToMang07 said:
What is that? Cat?

Sent from the pocket porn device.

Correct. Putting ends on it so it can go back in line along with a 4" muffler of some kind.

JrStroker · Jul 13, 2014

Took just a couple photos today.

sagebel · Jul 14, 2014

More LEDs. This time in the bed.

I used these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/141215745695?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Any suggestions on which bulbs to put in the cab light to match?

dsberman94 · Jul 14, 2014

sagebel said:
More LEDs. This time in the bed.

I used these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/141215745695?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Any suggestions on which bulbs to put in the cab light to match?

Cool white from superbrightleds.com. Just figure out what type of bulb it is from your owners manual.

Posted while doing something dumb.

Derkperk · Jul 15, 2014

Seriously! $12. Can you just cut the strip to length? How'd they wire up?

dsberman94 · Jul 15, 2014

Cut to length on the lines and you can re solder wires to continue using the rest. Link them together or whatever. They're cool. I use them a lot. Should be putting red on my buddies runningboards shortly.

Posted while doing something dumb.

sagebel · Jul 15, 2014

Derkperk said:
Seriously! $12. Can you just cut the strip to length? How'd they wire up?

The roll I bought has wire leads at each end. I only ran the strip to the toolbox on each side and had about 4' left that I'll use some where after I solder new leads on. The adhesive would not stick to the bedliner very well so I used some superglue and the some clear silicon caulk on edges.

JrStroker · Jul 15, 2014

Little bit of spring paintin' going on... matches the front now.. color is metallic aluminum.

83f350 · Jul 15, 2014

I like that alot! I wanna do it to mine but i'm not sure of a good accent color

JrStroker · Jul 15, 2014

83f350 said:
I like that alot! I wanna do it to mine but i'm not sure of a good accent color

The blue and grey of mine was a hard match. Silver is really the only color I cream think of. What color is yours?

buschpoweredstroker · Jul 15, 2014

florida 6.0 said:
Started having shift issues again , anyone else ever get a bad direct solenoid new from ford ?

My hd4R from ford had a bad PCS (checked on snapon scanner), got it back together almost a year ago and the overdrive light has flashed intermittently since, they made me jump through hoops, so I said nevermind... it has a 3 yr warranty... i'll make sure it's out by then... but on a side note...it shifts a little funny but is still strong after towing almost every day, tc stays locked more than it should though.