peterwells
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This has been my experience, plus a few unrequested questions/comments. You're in an unusual situation, making some risky choices on what to fix to get it to a level where you're comfortable and able to sell the car; it's much easier to do a full job and fix it properly. So first question is the die cast with the wife, i.e. there's no way to properly fix it and keep it? Assuming that it's got to go my experience has been that these engines are pretty good, I'd get a $10 manual from eBay and only replace what is clearly worn. On our car the passenger side hydraulic chain tensioner had a blown seal, along with broken chain guides, lots of cam chain rattle on start up and some wear on camshaft journal bearings. I replaced both hydraulic tensioners and the guides, it ran fine afterwards - no noise; in total I think it was around $350 in parts (a good portion was seals, plugs, the odd hose - I went with Motorcraft parts). At that point the car had done 160k miles, with lots of waiting in school pickup lines so not hard miles but not freeway cruising.
BTW I never had any engine codes, despite broken chain guides so anything you can do to dig into the specifics of what might cause those codes is time well spent.
The FordTechMakuloco YouTube videos are very good.
Good luck,
Peter
BTW I never had any engine codes, despite broken chain guides so anything you can do to dig into the specifics of what might cause those codes is time well spent.
The FordTechMakuloco YouTube videos are very good.
Good luck,
Peter