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smurfslayer

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Yes - this is MOST DEFINITELY warranty safe. There has never been a reported warranty denial for it. If you develop engine misfires, this is your solution.

Your tuned trucks however... Not so much warranty there. They will deny the warranty very quickly with that.

Now you’re circling back to the warranty denial issue. this has been dealt with already - asked, and answered. I’ve confirmed with the mechanic at my local dealer - drill the CAC, lose your warranty on affected powertrain parts. What is hard for you to understand about this?

So, why do you continue to troll the Gen 2 subforums with what seems to be a pretty blatant attempt to convince someone to lose the warranty on their new trucks?
 

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So why do you troll anyone, or any idea that is different from yours? The weep hole is common sense. It is warranty safe.
 

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Now you’re circling back to the warranty denial issue. this has been dealt with already - asked, and answered. I’ve confirmed with the mechanic at my local dealer - drill the CAC, lose your warranty on affected powertrain parts. What is hard for you to understand about this?

So, why do you continue to troll the Gen 2 subforums with what seems to be a pretty blatant attempt to convince someone to lose the warranty on their new trucks?

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Notice how nobody is agreeing with your suggestion?
 

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So why do you troll anyone, or any idea that is different from yours? The weep hole is common sense. It is warranty safe.
 

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Now you’re circling back to the warranty denial issue. this has been dealt with already - asked, and answered. I’ve confirmed with the mechanic at my local dealer - drill the CAC, lose your warranty on affected powertrain parts. What is hard for you to understand about this?
So, why do you continue to troll the Gen 2 subforums with what seems to be a pretty blatant attempt to convince someone to lose the warranty on their new trucks?

---------- Post added at 04:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:56 PM ----------

Notice how nobody is agreeing with your suggestion?

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Sasquatch77 said several pages ago:
End of the story on this.

So not only was your assertion of the actual proof not true, that it was only an EPA issue, and not only can you not prove this, your lies about the warranty have also been dispelled and the end of story line wasn’t true either

Which is it? Is it the end of the story, or not? You’ve made your points, everyone’s read them and, well, disagreed with you.

Your reputation for veracity has taken a serious hit in this thread. Don’t be too quick to respond, you make more errors when you post quickly.
Unless it really is the end of the story on this, this time.
 

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So, why do you continue to troll the Gen 2 subforums with what seems to be a pretty blatant attempt to convince someone to lose the warranty on their new trucks?

---------- Post added at 04:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:56 PM ----------

Notice how nobody is agreeing with your suggestion?

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Sasquatch77 said several pages ago:


So not only was your assertion of the actual proof not true, that it was only an EPA issue, and not only can you not prove this, your lies about the warranty have also been dispelled and the end of story line wasn’t true either

Which is it? Is it the end of the story, or not? You’ve made your points, everyone’s read them and, well, disagreed with you.

Your reputation for veracity has taken a serious hit in this thread. Don’t be too quick to respond, you make more errors when you post quickly.
Unless it really is the end of the story on this, this time.

Smurf - you are having a mental breakdown over this. Ask your questions, bullet form and I will answer you. Not hard, and really not sure what you are misunderstanding.

1. Actual proof - there is a plethora of info out there regarding the positive of the weep hole. It fixes the ecoboost misfire. You cannot dispute that at all.

2. Ford can't design this fix in because of the EPA. We as consumers, no problem.

3. Warranty - it DOESN'T AFFECT WARRANTY. Period. Seriously, you have NEVER found one person that had a warranty denied for this. Not a problem.

Prove me wrong.
 

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Now you’re circling back to the warranty denial issue. this has been dealt with already - asked, and answered. I’ve confirmed with the mechanic at my local dealer - drill the CAC, lose your warranty on affected powertrain parts. What is hard for you to understand about this?

So, why do you continue to troll the Gen 2 subforums with what seems to be a pretty blatant attempt to convince someone to lose the warranty on their new trucks?

Notice how nobody is agreeing with your suggestion?

Sasquatch77 said several pages ago:
End of the story on this.

So, it wasn’t the end of the story?


See, that’s why I told you not to reply too quickly. Again you are circling back the warranty issue and you simply will not accept that Ford will void a warranty on a drilled charge air cooler. I took your suggestion to the dealer last year, in good faith and asked the mechanic directly, and posted about it. You will not believe it.

You are outright lying about the warranty impact of drilling a weep hole in the charge air cooler. You cannot be allowed to spread disinformation about this online.

You previously admitted, several pages back, after you famously said “end of story” that you could not provide original, source material proof on company letterhead acknowledging the problem AND that drilling the CAC fixes it.

You’re once again circling back to that issue, which you previously lied about and now you’re lying about it again.

and now you’re attempting to shout your views to the world; the all caps are a nice touch, but you’re losing your temper and allowing it to cloud your judgment.

Look back at this thread, and anywhere else on FRF.

Who is agreeing with you?

Who among the Gen 2 users have drilled the CAC?

You can’t let this go because this is the only thing you have. You have not contributed a single how to, not a single constructive addition to the site anywhere. You have repeatedly ‘liked’ posts exclusively in the Gen2 sub forums when users have reported major issues <-- Do I really have to dig out the screen shots again from just before the last time you were banned?

You do nothing but troll this site, exclusively on the gen 2 sub forums. The admins gave you a pass for duplicate registration as Sasquatch77, McNawsty, this account, MGD. and sasquatch78. The last two are a really clever move, btw. But the overarching point

you add no value to this forum, or any other forum, or any other place on earth, society at large. Your sole ability to have any impact is to troll the Raptor, a vehicle you hate.

If your idea had merits the idea would stand on it’s own. It doesn’t, no matter how many times you repeat it, repetition won’t make it true. So what? You know about owners of older F150s, maybe even other vehicles, some of whom drilled their charge air cooler.

We don’t care.

It has not been proven to affect the 2017+ vehicles. Even if you could overcome this hurdle, you can’t, but if you could, these vehicles are covered by a bumper to bumper warranty and Ford, through its agents will fix the vehicle to the mutually agreed satisfaction of the customer and Ford.

I will have to give you number 3 because
We don’t care.

I am not wasting my time on digging through reports of people drilling holes in their charge air coolers because I kind of trust my mechanic at the local dealer way more than I trust you. The same mech who spent 20 minutes of his time helping me figure out a door issue --that I caused--, on his time. He bluntly told me that drilling the CAC is a warranty killer for at least the CAC and possibly more if the failure in question could be traced back to it. This is in line with Magnusson-Moss.

So, why do you continue to troll the Gen 2 subforums with what is a pretty blatant attempt to convince someone to lose the warranty on their new trucks?
 

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Smurf - you really are too stupid to understand this.

1. Ford acknowledges the intercooler building water. How do you explain the government investigation into into it? How do you explain the myriad of TSBs they had for it? Ford admitted that the intercooler builds water. They worked to make it less efficient so it would not build the large amount of water. Block off plates, tuning, etc. They actually realized the block off plates were more hatm then good, so another TSB was issued to remove them. How do you explain all this? Seriously? You have never understood or acknowledged this. Do you not care? Don't see a problem here?

2. Drilling the intercooler definitely doesn't void a warranty. Ask your mechanic buddy if they ever voided one for it. Ask that mechanic if he ever saw the weep hole on an ecoboost. Ask if they voided the warranty. You will not find one case where this voided a warranty. Heck, on the other F150 forum, the owner took his truck in, and dealer had to remove the intercooler to work on something else. The tech talked to the owner and told him "good move".


Smurf, do you understand how the ecoboost system works? It's different than the wizbang turbo Honda's you had previously. Drilling this hole gets the water out before it creates a misfiire condition. It causes no issues... Ever seen the video of the pressure test proving this? I am guessing not since you have your head in the sand still.



https://youtu.be/kKgI5pnD_3E

https://youtu.be/hEArZzx064w
 
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That pressure test vid wasn't valid because it was tested while in park. The vehicle doesn't build boost in park. They should have validated it on a moving vehicle.

Additionally, drilling a hole in a CAC in an offroad vehicle is silly. The potential to suck in water in a pressurized system is not a risk worth taking. It's the same concept as when the OP to this thread was talking about leaving the EBOV tube disconnected and facing the ground. There is potential to suck in water. It's nonsense.

And there have been zero instances of 2017+ Raptor owners drilling holes in their CACs because of misfire instances. Spark plugs, yes. Water in the CAC, no.

EDIT: Imagine doing a water crossing with a weephole in your CAC and hydrolocking your motor.
 
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