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divine and cruise diesel is a joke
ok I got one to add. there is a company called divine and cruise diesel in lincoln nebraska. the owner mike divine was my oldest daughters basketball and softball
coach. he is also a big time catholic and all his children attend catholic schools. I had a '92 idi f350 and one day stopped into a new station in ceresco just to find out the hard way they changed the pump colors so green is now 87 octane. I was in a hurry and didn't even look! filled both tanks, didn't even get a mile down the road and well it was no good! I limped it back to the station and at this time I'm tell the clerk they've got bad fuel when she tells me that wasn't diesel from my recipt! I called my father and he showed up with some hose and gas cans, I got it all out and filled it with diesel. It never idled right on the way home so I asked mike divine about this and he said I burned up the pump. I called around looking for a pump and found one at lithia ford dealership in omaha ne. I decided I didn't want to tackle this one so I took the truck to mike and told him lithia one in stock if his source didn't. he ordered one from lithia and installed it, it smoked bad and my fuel mileage was gone as well as power. he told me to drive it for a few days to see what happens. I took it back and said this isn't right. so he ordered another pump and installed it, called me and said his tech took it for a drive and it was all good again. I showed up to get it just to hear him say, ford wouldn't warranty the labor so we need another $215 or so dollars or I don't get my truck! I had a few things to say but paid him because I needed my truck.
I jumped in the truck, headed out the parking lot, pushed in the clutch and the motor died! I drove down the road a few miles pushed in the clutch at a stop light and it died again, it did this all the way home as I was calling him and telling him if his tech test drove this and cleared it for the road then he's no good! he told me to drive it for a few days to see if it cleared up, I had no faith in his abilitys as a mechanic at this point! I did take it to town the next morning and it quit dieing but idled real bad and black smoke poored out of the tail pipe empty!! I took it back monday morning just to watch him pull the dipstick to say your low on oil and then he opened removed the oil fill cap and said there too much blow by this motor needs and overhaul! BS! I took the truck to johnny at automotive specialists, he has a diesel mechanic there. I left the truck with them for 3 days for everytest they could think of. he called me up and said well you weakest cylinder is 385psi of compression and the strongest is 20 psi over I think, didn't need an overhaul just an injection pump! they purchased one from diesel specialists out of omaha and the truck ran great once again!! divine and cruise are not ford mechanics at all! I have told everyone and anyone about these crooks. I did call lithia ford about there rebuilt pumps and they said unless a certified ford diesel mechanic at their shop installs it than they would not stand behind it. I asked the sales clerk in parts if I needed to order a dozen to get one good one and he said " if that's what it takes" so I asked for the general manager and of course he wouldn't talk to me so I filled a report with ford and go figure nothing came out of it!! diesel specialist stands behind there work and parts and labor if a certified diesel mechanic installs it like the tech at automotive specialists.
I wouldn't take anything to divine and cruise diesel ever again!!
ok I got one to add. there is a company called divine and cruise diesel in lincoln nebraska. the owner mike divine was my oldest daughters basketball and softball
coach. he is also a big time catholic and all his children attend catholic schools. I had a '92 idi f350 and one day stopped into a new station in ceresco just to find out the hard way they changed the pump colors so green is now 87 octane. I was in a hurry and didn't even look! filled both tanks, didn't even get a mile down the road and well it was no good! I limped it back to the station and at this time I'm tell the clerk they've got bad fuel when she tells me that wasn't diesel from my recipt! I called my father and he showed up with some hose and gas cans, I got it all out and filled it with diesel. It never idled right on the way home so I asked mike divine about this and he said I burned up the pump. I called around looking for a pump and found one at lithia ford dealership in omaha ne. I decided I didn't want to tackle this one so I took the truck to mike and told him lithia one in stock if his source didn't. he ordered one from lithia and installed it, it smoked bad and my fuel mileage was gone as well as power. he told me to drive it for a few days to see what happens. I took it back and said this isn't right. so he ordered another pump and installed it, called me and said his tech took it for a drive and it was all good again. I showed up to get it just to hear him say, ford wouldn't warranty the labor so we need another $215 or so dollars or I don't get my truck! I had a few things to say but paid him because I needed my truck.
I jumped in the truck, headed out the parking lot, pushed in the clutch and the motor died! I drove down the road a few miles pushed in the clutch at a stop light and it died again, it did this all the way home as I was calling him and telling him if his tech test drove this and cleared it for the road then he's no good! he told me to drive it for a few days to see if it cleared up, I had no faith in his abilitys as a mechanic at this point! I did take it to town the next morning and it quit dieing but idled real bad and black smoke poored out of the tail pipe empty!! I took it back monday morning just to watch him pull the dipstick to say your low on oil and then he opened removed the oil fill cap and said there too much blow by this motor needs and overhaul! BS! I took the truck to johnny at automotive specialists, he has a diesel mechanic there. I left the truck with them for 3 days for everytest they could think of. he called me up and said well you weakest cylinder is 385psi of compression and the strongest is 20 psi over I think, didn't need an overhaul just an injection pump! they purchased one from diesel specialists out of omaha and the truck ran great once again!! divine and cruise are not ford mechanics at all! I have told everyone and anyone about these crooks. I did call lithia ford about there rebuilt pumps and they said unless a certified ford diesel mechanic at their shop installs it than they would not stand behind it. I asked the sales clerk in parts if I needed to order a dozen to get one good one and he said " if that's what it takes" so I asked for the general manager and of course he wouldn't talk to me so I filled a report with ford and go figure nothing came out of it!! diesel specialist stands behind there work and parts and labor if a certified diesel mechanic installs it like the tech at automotive specialists.
I wouldn't take anything to divine and cruise diesel ever again!!