What Happened? "Ticking" Engine Tear Down and Inspection Ford 3.0 V6
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Follow along as Jim and Alex tear down a Ford 3.0 Vulcan V6 to discover what was causing a ticking noise in the engine. We inspect the lifters, heads, rod bearings, main bearings, crankshaft, camshaft and cam bearings. The results are much worse than we first thought.
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I had a 1992 Ranger with a 3.0L, it had 393K on it when I sold it and it was still running fine. I got it after someone traded it in at 94k with an oil light on the dash and no oil pressure. Someone had replaced the pan gasket and used a half pound of RTV which a good bit of it ended up in the oil pickup screen.
My plan was to just stuff a 351w in it but needed to get it home, I pulled the motor, dropped the pan, cleaned out the screen, checked the main caps, they were worse than what your were here but no copper was showing. I put it back together with only the cost of a new pan gasket and fresh 10W30 Mobile 1 oil and fresh filter. It was a bit noisy at first but shut up after a few hundred miles. It gave me no issues after using it for a week so I just kept running it as my beater truck. It never died and it wasn't from me not trying a few times. I'd shift that thing on the rev limiter most of the time, I towed with it like it was a tractor and ran the wheels off it for 15 years, but that time the body was starting to get rough, it needed paint, had nearly 400k on it and needed an ac compressor, door hinges, a windshield, and tires so I sold it to a guy and bought a newer model with less miles. Those 3.0L motors were tough as nails, it wasn't uncommon to see them over 250k and with basic care they'd go seemingly forever. They didn't make big power but would outlast the 2.9/4.0l motors by double without all the cracked head issues.
I like the fact that these little 3.0s are so simple you can do practically a full breakdown in a 10min video with commentary.
Me too
I love that almost every bearing in that engine was trashed, yet the little Ranger was still running with only a small tick after 15 minutes.
Well filmed guys! 🙂
Awesome simple OHV engin. Mine has 210k 5 soeed manual 4x4 and fiberglass strpside bed and hood. Hope it will last until my kid comes up 👍🏻
@@stringsandsprockets7845 they are really simple engines.
The last thing you forgot to say.>>>> "So, we'll get Alex to take the blame for this engine failure"...
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Dang it. Good observation
Makes me nervous for my '02 Taurus lol
😁 don't be nervous. This was a rare case of too many rpms on an old motor.
@@andersonsgarage2334 yeah I figured it wasn't too common. Apparently the Vulcan is a very reliable engine, so I feel like I'm in luck :)
the valve seats are the big problem on them and the bolts changed in 99
Correct
Does this mean the valve seat issue was corrected due to the new bolts in 99? Or did that make the problem worse?
what concerns me is only two upper bolts holding that block on the stand.
It was junk so it wouldn't have mattered really , appreciate your concern though.
Mickey and Donald diangnostics
@@Danimal-76 as in?