Why would you wanna buy it? It's got a 5.4 Triton in it.

Buy a Toyota instead! At least their spark plugs don't habitually snap into multiple pieces upon removal.

Now to put the rad, condenser, fan, shroud, and hood back on. Time to see if it overheats, jumps a tooth, blows a new head gasket, throws codes, develops a vacuum leak, seizes the oil pump, or goes nuclear and blows up like Chernobyl.

Keep tuned.

 

Good on getting her running again! To answer your earlier question, that hose goes to the evap valve just above the booster on the firewall. It is notorious for rotting out.

 

Yeah I got it figured out. It was hiding behind the intake and disconnected. I got it reattached when I removed the intake the second time.... sigh

I just got the cooling system put back together. The thermostat is open and it appears to be holding pressure. I cant find any leaks. No codes have popped up yet. No ticking noises from the lifters. I dont hear chains slapping on the guides....

Could it be that Murphy and his silly laws have decided to gimme a break?

 

Your original post described the vehicle as: "It belongs to a buddy of mine".


I gotta' tell ya... he's got one hell of a friend! The kind that makes FTE a good place of refuge for all. Murphy can just stay away from you as far as I'm concerned.

 

He's a good friend of mine. However I am being paid for the labor. Although nowhere near what a shop would charge.

He bought the beer and pizza too.

But your're right. It was a unusually generous (or stupid) favor for me to do.

The exhaust studs from manifold to downpipe were seized and had to be cut out, drilled out and tapped. The head had to be removed. A spark plug extracted. It had to be timed twice. Coolant flush. Oil flush with Seafoam. Etc, etc. It took days to perform.

I'm still putting the rest of it together this morning. Headlights, hood, fender-liner then a road test.

My buddy's headed over with another case of beer. He owes me huge for this one.

Hell. He owes you guys too. With all the conflicting info I was getting on how to time this truck it wouldn't be running if it wasn't for you. He owes you guys a dozen beer too!

 

Check your PM's for a little something to go with your beer.

 

This is what I pulled out of the #5 cylinder. Notice how the electrode is bent? It dropped slightly, impacted the piston, then left some minor pitting on the piston.

Luckily it only dropped completely into the cylinder when the engine was off, and the engine was never ran with it inside.

 

All that heartache over that stupid little part! Give your buddy a nice invoice and have him join the class action suit.

 

So glad you got it running.I am going thru basicly the same thing.One good thing it's always faster the 2nd time.I learned a lot from your thread.

 

Sorry, this is an old thread though. Are cloyes timing kits made in China?
A client of mine, whose, f150 I'm going to do a timing job, ordered for timing chain kit on eBay or so. Before he ordered for those kits, I had told him to stick with only ford OEM kits. So now that the kits arrived, I checked what he got, and saw MAFE IN CHINA inscribed on the park. Are the ones gotten in dealerships, or autostores in the USA packaged that way, or its the online ones that are like that?