Well Greg......if your going to dream...Dream BIG!!! LOL!! Russ

 

I just sent her an email and asked her to come join us. Maybe we can put this one to rest. You guys sure gave a lot of good info!

 

Today the oil pan comes off !!!!!! Tonight i will know for sure what it is... ( bec hopes, please, please, please) And yes.... i am a girl.

 

Did you happen to look at the flex plate as BB suggested? Well its good to know you have the pan off.... And I was hoping with that name.... your are a lady!! LOL! Russ

 

Well guys, ... looks like you have succesfully got a girl to drop her pan :P . Couldnt you just have a mech stop by...look at the engine for you?

 

First don't run her off with that kind of remark.
Second, Where is the fun in having someone else do all the work for you.

LadyRebbecca, Let us know what you find under that pan. You got me curious.

 

She had 2 mechanics look at it, got conflicting answers. I think she's getting better information from people who haven't even seen it...FOR FREE.
Welcome to the forum ladyrebecca, there are a lot of straight shooters here. If you're not certain about what your "mechanics" are recommending, run it past us. I'll help keep them honest!
You go Girl!

 

I seriously dought one of the 2 was a mechanic.....if she called a ford shop, a mechanic could stop by, maybe on his way home. She just wants to identify the engine ... not get a coarse on how to tear her engine down.

 

I havent seen any replies from you doing a motor ID....So what is it?

People who live in glass houses shouldnt cast stones!!!

I dont wont to start a FLAME here... But it seems to me..you should unplug

your keyboard for a bit and just read the boards...

Russ..

 

Just hate to see someone go through alot of trouble when there could be a easier solution then taking her engine apart. The obvious has been said about identifying the engine.

 

Well MUD-

If you really know your FEs...they had so many combo's with the same block...

that they all look the same from the outside..

If I put a 352,360,390,406,410,427,428, and the engine's are all together..

Can you ID them... And be 100% correct?

Russ

 

Everybody play nice now.

Mud-hunter,

We've had this discussion many times here. That's probably why Russ is a little excited. Basically with these FE motors, it's difficult to tell what you got with external ID numbers. It's easy to determine if you have an FE. But figuring out the actual engine displacement is a nother story. It really comes down to the crank ID. There are other ways to get an idea from the outside like BB mentioned. But these old trucks have typically seen rebuilds and replacements etc.

It's also hard to find a decent mechanic that knows anything about these FE motors. You'll find the guys here to be quite knowledgeable by comparison.

 

Greg,

Im cool now had my breakfast...and opened up a cool one...Im good!! LOL!

Write me back on the 446?

 

YEA ITS 428!!!!!!!!!! now to find out if its a cj or an scj. And you guys will never believe where i found him at...

 

I thought we where talking about the 428 429 ...sorry my mistake