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Gumbybronco said:
I installed a rotor, wide cap conversion, 9mm wires and new plugs on the 75 F100. Then ran it for about half an hour and dumped the oil and filter. I’m filling it with 15w-40 diesel oil for now to help clean it up. The plug wires need to be tidied.

I also cut off the cat and muffler to rule out any clogs or restrictions. I’ll make a simple short side dump end with a muffler when it’s closer to drivable.
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Spent some more time on the 75 F100. Determined that the miss is likely a warn timing chain. Ordered a Cloyes double roller and gaskets.
 
just bought a 6 pack of FL1A oil filters off ebay for $11/ea delivered. Turns out, the 93 E350 460, 78 F250 400, 80 F350 351, 89 lincoln 5.0 all can fit and use the same filter.

i'm half tempted to use this as justification to stay as much ford as possible going forward, just need to figure out what it will take to convince my wife to get into an old ford. As it sits now, the only ones she is interested in, for the past 20 years, is first gen broncos in excellent shape :homer:
 
Provience said:
just bought a 6 pack of FL1A oil filters off ebay for $11/ea delivered. Turns out, the 93 E350 460, 78 F250 400, 80 F350 351, 89 lincoln 5.0 all can fit and use the same filter.

i'm half tempted to use this as justification to stay as much ford as possible going forward, just need to figure out what it will take to convince my wife to get into an old ford. As it sits now, the only ones she is interested in, for the past 20 years, is first gen broncos in excellent shape :homer:
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I bought a box of them on Rock Auto for a good price and have like 20 of them to use for the Ford 400.. went to order filters for the Bronco 302 and it's the same filter.
 
holdmypocket said:
I bought a box of them on Rock Auto for a good price and have like 20 of them to use for the Ford 400.. went to order filters for the Bronco 302 and it's the same filter.
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yeah, i need to do the oil in the lincoln, going to need to do it in the motorhome once it gets back here and will be doing the truck hopefully soon once i get the engine out. they are $15 a pop at least at the auto parts store, figured they'd be cheaper on rockauto, but with shipping they weren't. ebay was the best deal i could find :laughing:

surprisingly, for having 250,000 miles, the 89 5.0 doesn't seem to have lost any oil over the past 3k miles :smokin: the transmission won't keep it in, but that's less important :rasta:
 
Provience said:
just bought a 6 pack of FL1A oil filters off ebay for $11/ea delivered. Turns out, the 93 E350 460, 78 F250 400, 80 F350 351, 89 lincoln 5.0 all can fit and use the same filter.
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There's a fuckton of smaller ford engines that can use it too if you have the clearance.

I could use it on my 3.0 garbage if I wanted and have in the past because it was what was on the shelf.
 
Changed the plugs in one today and sliced the end of my finger open putting the bits and pieces back together. I don't know what I cut it on, but I was bleeding all over the top of the engine by the time I pulled my hand back up. :homer:


Then I fought with valVE adjustments on an ATV. Luckily a friend came over and helped me out. It was like 2 monkeys trying to fuck a football, but we got it done. :beer:\
 
Cleaned and painted some parts so my son and I can replace the timing chain on the 75 F100 this weekend
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I put 50,000 miles on Betty in the last few years.
I think the transmission has finally learned how I want it to behave, I was rolling along at 65 slight grade comes up so I lean on the accelerator carefully so it doesn’t downshift, after a while noticed I had it floored and it was still in fifth. Slow to 60 and slam the pedal down still stays in 5th with tow haul on.

Or maybe that zip tie I put on the vacuum T sealed up a leak I didn’t know was there.

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Pulled the valve cover and timing cover on the 2007 F150 daily driver tonight. New chain tensioners and cam phasers failed after only 9,000 miles. I bought a kit and I'm kicking myself for not spending a little more. Ford phasers and cast iron tensioners this time. I have a Melling high volume oil pump that'll go in as well. 210k miles on it currently and I'm hoping to stretch it to 300k.


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ZSK said:
Pulled the valve cover and timing cover on the 2007 F150 daily driver tonight. New chain tensioners and cam phasers failed after only 9,000 miles. I bought a kit and I'm kicking myself for not spending a little more. Ford phasers and cast iron tensioners this time. I have a Melling high volume oil pump that'll go in as well. 210k miles on it currently and I'm hoping to stretch it to 300k.


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Metal body tensioners, I hope?
 
My youngest son has a V10 excursion. Last winter it developed a hard miss. We went through and unplugged coils and injectors one by one trying to determine which cylinder and could not figure it out.
Before we went further he ran off and bought a new pickup anyway.

We decided to do a compression test on it finally to figure out what the future of this thing is.

It had new coils, plugs and a bunch of other work when he bought it. So he hadn't touched any of that except for the one spark plug that blew out.

Found this spark plug, oops, not sure what happened, maybe it was like that out of the box, or the installer bent it, didn't know. Ran for a long time like that and still don't think that cylinder is our problem.

Compression numbers so far are coming in around 60 psi, on an engine that has been sitting since like Jan. We squirted some oil in one hole and got 120.
We didn't get them all done yet. Hope they all come in around 60 psi and not a dead one.

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Found and corrected the rhythmic clunk at low speeds. It wasn’t pinion related.

Need to add lugnut check to the pretrip.

Dr rear was the culprit. Makes sense as that was the last side I had off to replace the inner tire that got wrecked from running it flat.
 
Tiha said:
My youngest son has a V10 excursion. Last winter it developed a hard miss. We went through and unplugged coils and injectors one by one trying to determine which cylinder and could not figure it out.
Before we went further he ran off and bought a new pickup anyway.

We decided to do a compression test on it finally to figure out what the future of this thing is.

It had new coils, plugs and a bunch of other work when he bought it. So he hadn't touched any of that except for the one spark plug that blew out.

Found this spark plug, oops, not sure what happened, maybe it was like that out of the box, or the installer bent it, didn't know. Ran for a long time like that and still don't think that cylinder is our problem.

Compression numbers so far are coming in around 60 psi, on an engine that has been sitting since like Jan. We squirted some oil in one hole and got 120.
We didn't get them all done yet. Hope they all come in around 60 psi and not a dead one.

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I've got an emissions debacle with my V10 right now

need to put miles on it to run all the sensors

but the tires are old/unbalanced/flatspotted?

and the registration is out :laughing:
 
Cylinder #3 Big fat 0. Adding oil and it popped right up to 220. Stuck ring, bad ring, something going on there.

Not sure where we are going with it next. He can't make up his mind, keep and fix, or fix and sell, or sell.

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Levigarrett76 said:
borescope?
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I have one, but what would we see?

If there was a hole in the piston, oil would not bring up compression. If there was a broken ring I would imagine we would see some damage to the piston?

This thing was not smoking or using all that much oil. No back firing.

I think it is just worn out. Like 250k miles on it. Doesn't run bad, doesn't make funny noises, just has a miss.
 
Possible gash in cyl wall or chunks missing from piston etc if not just stuck rings?

Still
Ya its probably time to cut loss
 
Levigarrett76 said:
Possible gash in cyl wall or chunks missing from piston etc if not just stuck rings?

Still
Ya its probably time to cut loss
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I was thinking stuck rings. This thing has sat since January, we didn't even start it, just went to compression test.

So none of the lifters were pumped up. No oil run through the system. No heat. So we expected the numbers to be low, but after seeing some of the plugs, some of the coil boots and finding oil in the 3,4,5 holes around the plugs we were hoping for some compression on all cylinders.

Right now I think he is leaning towards throwing a set of plugs in it and putting it back together so it is mobile.

But really there are engines available with 150k or less miles for $1,000. Why screw with it? One weekend and it would all be like new again.
 
I once had a 4.9 i rolled bearings in because it had been run without oil.
It burned so much oil it used 1 qt every 700 miles and i added a draft tube because so much blowby over and above what the pcv would capture.

I sold it to my x bil pillhead to help him out(stupid x wife) and he ran it out of oil, he decided to solve that problem and filled the oil until it ran out the top.

All i can figure it that somehow unstuck the rings.....I bought it back later and it didnt use a drop of oil in 5000 mile changes..??:homer:
 
Tiha said:
Cylinder #3 Big fat 0. Adding oil and it popped right up to 220. Stuck ring, bad ring, something going on there.

Not sure where we are going with it next. He can't make up his mind, keep and fix, or fix and sell, or sell.
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Gas engines are done at 90 psi per hole and down. 60 is a mostly dead hole. That engine should have 120 or better across the board. Could be heads, in fact, most likely culprit is heads.

If every hole on an engine is 90 psi or under, that’s when you almost can’t spin it fast enough to start it anymore.
 
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