I currenlty purchased a 2002 F 250 superduty with the 5.4L v8.

I've rebuilt may engines, primarily chevy....don't be a hater I recenlty rebuilt my 93 GMC typhoon engine and I just broke 5K miles on her. I can't wait to take her to the track for the first time

Anyway, I've been considering rebuilding an engine for my new Ford F250 superduty. I noticed that there is no distributer and the plug wires are under the individual coil packs.

My question is; on my last engine I built, I brought the no. 1 piston to TDC and then adjusted my distributor rotor to the no. 1 sparkplug wire on the distributor. What or How in the heck should I set my 5.4 V8 that is distributorLESS inorder to get TDC and what do I have to do to get the engine to fire on TDC????

I hope this makes sense. No distributer = confusing to how and what I need to do inorder to achieve the correct fireing sequence.

thanks for the HELP!!!

 

The ignition coils are fired by the PCM, which gets crank and cam position signals from sensors. It's nothing like the old distributor style engines. When you replace the timing chains (there are 2), and the cams and crank are lined up properly with the chains installed, then the PCM should take care of the rest.

How many miles are on your current engine?

And as far as procedure, a new set of chains should come with some sort of procedure, or you can check your service manual.....

 

Thank you for the information! I fiugred the PCM would do the rest once the engine was @ TDC. Do you have to re-set the PCM or does it just figure it out? I've 165K miles on my truck. The original owner had it serviced every 3 months till I purchased it, so the engine is in great shape. I may just fine a 5.4 in a wrecking yard, and rebuild it then keep it on a stand till I need it. I like being ahead of the game

 

You'll be waiting a long time to do that engine swap. These engines will do 300k without any major issues if they're maintained properly. And your junkyard engine won't probably need any rebuilding either. Unless you're planning on modding the replacement engine?

When you pull the battery cable to work under the hood, after 5 minutes or so you'll have all the PCM reset you need, but it'll figure it out either way.....