Crank, No start
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Tuned
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I thought about it, but I couldn’t bring myself to just pull one head off and do one cylinder. If one went. The other 7 are not far behind. I would need at least 8 pistons, and at that point why not freshen up the entire bottom end, leaving the valve train alone of course. I’ve exhausted my funds with this truck so I’m not gonna do that. Don’t even know how to do it anyways. Probably gonna put it up for sale or park it in the bush till I’m ready to burn through my wallet again. Damn shame.
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Tuned
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i did have a fairly new wix filter on the engine at the time of failure, who knows but I think the oil filter would have caught it
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I thought about it, but I couldn’t bring myself to just pull one head off and do one cylinder. If one went. The other 7 are not far behind. I would need at least 8 pistons, and at that point why not freshen up the entire bottom end, leaving the valve train alone of course. I’ve exhausted my funds with this truck so I’m not gonna do that. Don’t even know how to do it anyways. Probably gonna put it up for sale or park it in the bush till I’m ready to burn through my wallet again. Damn shame.
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I’ll probably pick this thread back up in the winter, I decided to keep the truck. Everything on it is pretty much solid besides the motor, so I’m replacing it with a reman. long block for $2200. Engine probably has 250k on it, maybe even 350k. Idk.. those 5 digit odometers are a real joy. Car fax has a record of it rolling over once back in the late 90’s early 2000’s can’t remember exactly. So it’s probably rolled over at least once more. Anyone have any ideas as to why the piston skirt flew off? Just seems strange. the engine still turns over smooth by hand. Thanks for all the help along the way
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If the cylinder is worn, or eggshaped enough, you probably were getting some piston slap, which can tend to put extra stress on the piston skirt, and can break them. It's not *super* uncommon on very high mileage engines, in my experience.
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If they haven't been removed, the stock lift brackets were attached to the exhaust manifold bolts - passenger side was at the back of the motor, drivers side was at the front, best I remember.
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I replaced the stock manifolds with shorty headers from summit, old ones were leaking pretty bad, but I don’t recall the brackets being on there. Think I will just remove the intake manifold and fab a custom plate to the lower intake or heads and lift the engine out that way. What do you think?
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That's how I've done it in the past. I've still got a plate in my storage unit somewhere, that is drilled to fit the various 5.0, and the 5.8 lower intake pattern for pulling engines. I just highly suggest that if you *do* build such a thing, that you drill and use *all* of the available threaded holes in the intake, the hardware used for it is fairly small (M8, IIRC) and spreading that load out over the six or eight fasteners (I honestly can't remember how many bolts hold the upper to the lower) significantly reduces the chances of screwing up anything on the lower intake.
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Hey everyone, letting you all know i bought a reman long block and posted my progress so far in a separate thread, if you are interested. It's kind of a long post, lots to read, stuff most of you know way better than me, but I promised another user on here that I would go into a lot of detail on the process and the steps I took.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...l#post20578365
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...l#post20578365
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