[Shotimes] Re: Shotimes digest, Vol 1 #4217 - 12 msgs

[Donald Mallinson]

Most Ford dealers don't want to work on SHO's period!  But 
yes,you are right, the weld is not approved.  IN a move I 
really don't understand, Ford DID approve an owner paid for 
service of using some Loctite on the sprocket, like Tim and 
Paul first thought about before welding was decided on as 
the best solution. This is in the form of a TSB that is NOT 
sent to owners, you have to know to look for it, then it is 
worthless.

The Loctite may prevent the initial loosening of the 
sprocket by a tiny percentage of miles, but it really isn't 
anything you want to do since to do it, you have to be right 
there where you can weld it, and welding is a permanent 
solution.

I know of one person that talked their dealer into welding 
the cams, and they had to sign a form saying that the dealer 
was not responsible for ANYTHING.  As it turns out the 
dealer fubar'd the job and the heads had to be replaced. 
Due to the signed form, owner was out a bunch.  I think the 
dealer gave the owner a little discount on the work that 
ruined the engine.

That is why we have the list on V8sho.com that shows those 
people that are experienced and WANT the business.

:)

Don Mallinson

Carl Prochilo wrote:

> Not sure why I was thinking that the volumes were less, but 20K is a good
> number of affected cars/owners.  For lack of Ford sending a recall notice
> to these people, it sounds like any V8 SHO owner would A) need to
> understand this vulnerability and B) be told where to go to get the fix
> made.  For some reason I'm thinking that a Ford dealer would not do this
> weld.  Am I right?