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Nope A local machine shop that specializes on pushrod ford engines. Original motor in the truck had low oil pressure, burned oil and had the beginnings of a bad head gasket. Another 400 was acquired and rebuilt and swapped in.

It's not cheap, but split between 3 people it's reasonable.

Doubt it. Pan was blasted, hot tanked, and jetwashed.

We are going to run the 10w30 over the winter here and take a sample before changing next, to see how the trend is, but it's looking we're going to try the zrod 10w40 for next summer. Ambient temps were pretty hot for a few days this summer on the roadtrip and it was worked hard as there was...

No, we don't rev it immediately after a cold start. We have the holley 600cfm dialed in and the fast idle sets and it starts without any throttle given after just 1 pump when cold. No throttle needed when hot, just bump the key.

Yes, cam bearings have been replaced.

It is a flat tappet Lunati Voodo cam, no leaded fuel or additives. We did try some ethanol free gas from Sinclair and Maverik on our trip, but it turned out to make no difference. It gets 10mpg hwy whatever we tried and out in it, premium, regular e10, e0 regular and e0 premium. Didn't make a...

Brand new Mahle Clevite P series tri metal bearings.

The pictures were of the wrong filter. The sludged filter was from a 78 Mercury Bobcat 2.3L. It was not from this engine. There was a filter cutting mix up at shop. Both take a Baldwin B2 so they got mixed up. I have since deleted the photos as they weren't from this oil change. No sludge in...

Baldwin B2 Filter images: DELETED IMAGES. FILTER CUT OPEN WAS FROM A MERCURY BOBCAT. WRONG FILTER This thing has had an issue with cooling way too much, even on hot summer days on the highway, as it's equipped with a HD cooling fan since it has A/C, a Robert Shaw 180F high flow thermostat...

4th oil change on new motor, previous ocis after break in approx, 500km, 2500km, 2500km. 3 previous oil changes before this Zrod were Lucas 10w30 Hot rod oil. Did not get them analyzed as didn't want to do analysis on such short OCI's on a new motor as probably still flushing out contaminants...

Well, over the last couple months, the majority of the B2's we've been receiving in for stock are USA made. I haven't seen a Morocco made one in the last few weeks. So maybe the problem is fixed.

My 2018 Ecodiesel went 67000km before it spun a bearing. Rotella T6 5w40 all the time, no more than 8000-10000miles on an oil change. I put on a tune around the 45000km mark to shut the EGR off when my intake swirl valves coked up with soot and needed to get a new intake manifold, but the damage...

As someone who has been installed thousands of Baldwin filters for over the last decade in my Heavy Equipment and Construction Industry, and in my Personal Vehicles, while this looks like a Baldwin from far away, you get close up to it, it doesn't look like a Baldwin, doesn't feel like a...