Do I need a new intake?

Take it in to the Ford dealer and tell them it is cracked. They will tell you if you are wrong

Take it to a diff one.

Digger said:

What are some of the telltale signs that my intake is cracked? I don't get to park on concrete all the time, but I don't think I am leaking any antifreeze, but the coolant light keeps coming on. Is it only a matter of time before these things crack? The car has over 150K on it and I'm pretty sure it is the OEM manifold.

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maybe you have a faulty coolant level sensor..Mine coolant needs to be topped off frequently when I drive it daily. Maybe your just burning off coolant?

Digger said:

Yeah, well my local dealers service department sucks. They had my Superduty for 4 days trying to fix the defroster. I even had the TSB that told them what the problem was. I let them have it on the "confidential" survey. The service manager then called me to find out why I rated them low on the survey. So needless to say, I don't get too many favors from those guys.

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OHH go to a different dealer. once you bomb a survey they won't lift a finger for you. The trick to good service is to spend money at the dealer.the first thing my boss looks at is the amount of cash work the car has been brought to us for when making up his mind on if he is going to offer after warranty help or giving a loner. I know that sounds F-ed up but we have to keep our AWA numbers down and the good customers get it and the warranty only customers don't

those surveys are not confidential at all. I hate that stupid survey system and it don't even effect my pay. it effects the wirters and managers.

Also cash work takes priority over warranty problems. Us techs like to make money like everybody else in the world does, so we hate warranty work ( the warranty pay is LOUSY) plus the managers and advisor's are paid on the cash work sold not warranty.

It should not have to be this way. Ford needs to be a little more fair on the warranty pay. In the end the customer looses more than anybody. It's just not right.