I love his humor.
Knowing how poorly people interpret sarcasm and humor, and I imagine he gets lots of hater comments about "You can't reuse that part" or "You shouldn't throw a perfectly good part like that"
2019 Ford F-150 3.5L Ecoboost MAJOR ENGINE FAILURE! Full Teardown W/
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Knowing how poorly people interpret sarcasm and humor, and I imagine he gets lots of hater comments about "You can't reuse that part" or "You shouldn't throw a perfectly good part like that"
Right!
He knows what sells and what makes him money. No sense keeping parts around forever just in case someone in the next 5 years may want to buy it.
He knows what sells and what makes him money. No sense keeping parts around forever just in case someone in the next 5 years may want to buy it.
I have a good friend who works at a local Ford dealer as a service advisor, they replace a LOT of these engines under warranty. With that said, the one in the video was likely tuned and pushed beyond its limits to break a crankshaft.
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I'd think tuning would sooner show damage on the piston or the rod well before destroying that massive crank, but I honestly don't know too much about these engines either.
Agree. The rods are fragile if your tuner is stupid, but the crank is good to over 800HP. It had to be scored by debris and then heavily stressed, I would imagine.
Or just s straight up casting flaw that waited a while to show itself.
I'll bet that thing sounded straight up awful for a bit before it quit.
Definitely, I mean there was absolutely a casting flaw with the crank, but my guess was that it was misfiring + tuning.
Looks like it was neglected while being worked like a fleet tow vehicle which led to the first timing set going bad, then the rings got sticky from being so dirty, and the crank was probably bad from the factory so a misfire or odd fire hit it just hard enough to go boom.
Im gunna watch it, but I always want to know if I had bought and EB and did oil, filter, and maint properly (5k oil) and ignored the stupupid oil life monitor, I would be curious how it would last.
more than a million by 2016. Plenty more since then. At least another million.
https://media.ford.com/content/ford...ets-145-million-upgrade-creates-150-jobs.html
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Is the typical owner just not up to the task of maintaining these new eengines?
Is it really that bad? Is this because of the ease of tuning them without building them up, or is there something else? When I was more involved in the RV community, people were quite happy with them in those circles.
I think the thought process on the tuner is that all the soot and carbon have the footprint of being heavily fueled.
Id say no tuner or perhaps a mild tune not enough to snap a crank based on the upper rod bearing shell not being worn on most rods. - when you are really making big power the upper bearing shows it.
I guess Mike Rowe took those days off.
5 Star Tuning’s late (sold off) shop truck was making over 720rwhp and they had not touched the trans. Supposedly, it was driven over 60k in that tune before the owner sold it to buy a newer model.
Which city is that? I wanna see that wall on google maps.
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