95 4.9L, rebuild or replace???
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95 4.9L, rebuild or replace???
I have a 95 F150 4x4 I use as a hunting truck (and other dirty jobs). The 4.9L I6 has 240K+ on it with a fair amount of blowby and leaks everywhere.
Should I rebuild it (have the skills and tools but short on time) or do I find a reman engine? Has anyone used an ATK engine lately, it's been 15 years since I have and was wondering about their quality. Open to other suggestions.
Should I rebuild it (have the skills and tools but short on time) or do I find a reman engine? Has anyone used an ATK engine lately, it's been 15 years since I have and was wondering about their quality. Open to other suggestions.
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I'd be rebuilding it if I wanted to keep that engine combo and I also planned on keeping the truck for a while.
in order to combat your time issue, you could pull an I6 from the junkyard and rebuild that engine where you can find the time, and just run ole wheezy while you are rebuilding the other. that way you can still use the truck until the other engine is rebuilt, and once its all ready to swap just swap 'er in one day.
another option would just be to find a good running I6 and put it in. those engines are tough, there are a ton of good used runners out there.
in order to combat your time issue, you could pull an I6 from the junkyard and rebuild that engine where you can find the time, and just run ole wheezy while you are rebuilding the other. that way you can still use the truck until the other engine is rebuilt, and once its all ready to swap just swap 'er in one day.
another option would just be to find a good running I6 and put it in. those engines are tough, there are a ton of good used runners out there.
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^^^ That's what I did. I was lucky enough to find one on CL that the guy had been trying to sell for awhile with no takers at $250. He got back to me a few weeks later and said I could have it for salvage value - $75. It's been running great ever since I got it installed a couple years ago. I did freshen it up with new gaskets (the easy ones), but otherwise installed, changed the oil, and ran it.
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Found a 4.9 in a Econline van about to be scrapped. I was able to start it and hear it run and it seems a very tight engine. I paid $400 and all it seems to need is a valve cover gasket. Since I'm at it I guess I'll rebuild the M5R2 trans, the 3/4 syncro is going bad. I may have to paint the old hunting truck after all this, OD Green might work.
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