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looks like gold paint, good reason to change your oil
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looks like gold paint, good reason to change your oil
varnish is a vanilla ilsac oil problem
Ugh, just sheer neglect. No Ford bashing here, they make a pretty stout power plant. But with turbos, truck application, etc. THAT motor was in a high stress situation. Simple message: Service and change fluids & filters often and early.
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25K oil changes ftw!!
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I completely agree, it is a testament to how stout the block is cast that it barely had any wear ridges and looked serviceable with a simple hone
That water pump location makes NO sense at all.
I did enjoy the video and subscribed to his channel.
I did enjoy the video and subscribed to his channel.
I agree that water pump location is not good. I will take the external easy access water pump any day. The guy stated when the pump begins to fail it fills the crankcase with anti freeze. Not good at all. I would take the 5.0 engine over the 3.5.That water pump location makes NO sense at all.
I did enjoy the video and subscribed to his channel.
I totally agree with you on the 5.0 engine
My cousin just recently retired. He owns a 64-1/2 convertible Mustang, 260, with an AOD he installed a few years ago. It had a C4. Anyway, l'm going to help him restore it. We have been kicking around an 5.0 install. He has a 351 W that we were going to rebuild, but that 5.0 sounds so much better.
The water pump on the F150 3.5L Ecoboost is external.
Yes, the 5.0 is a great engine. It's very easy to change plugs and has a lot of power. I would put the 6 speed automatic behind it and it would make a great combination. I like the way the plugs are more on top of the engine too and easy to change if necessary.
Yes, however the guy in the video actually said he questioned whether or not he would buy the 3.5 because of the difficulty getting at it and the fact that when it leaks anti-freeze it goes into the crankcase instead of on the ground. It adds anti-freeze to the oil when it goes out.
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The 3.5 V6 with the internal water pump is shared with many other Fords including (but not limited to):
Edge
Taurus/Taurus SHO
F150
as well as several Lincoln models.
Replacing the water pump on those models is akin to replacing the timing belt on an interference engine.
It's not a matter of "if" the part fails, it's more a matter of "when".
Here again, l totally agree. If you're in there to change the wp, "IF" you catch it before it fails, you might as well change all of the timing components too.
The same cousin with the Mustang, bought his wife a new 2017 NAVI with the 3.5 EB. Yes, it's a 4 door soccer moms hot rod, BUT, l have yet to let him in on the wp debacle. It currently has 60K miles on it (they travel to N'awlins a lot 170 miles one way) and other parts of La. too. He just recently changed the plugs in it, but they didn't look too bad.
Is the 2.7 EB wp designed the same way? If so, WTH were those Ford engineers smoking when they designed these EB engines? SMH!
The same thing they were thinking with a dry-clutch transmission. There have been a staggering number of recalls for Ford vehicles over the years. Here is the F150 which has had the most recalls of any Ford. Go to 2017 - it's laughable - seems everything wants to catch on fire.
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Again, the F-150 3.5L EB water pump is external, not internal used by the transverse version.
This makes me want to take a picture of the accesory belt being wrapped around the water pump on my f150....its not driven by the timing chain and its external.
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