F-150 4.6 rebuild thread

[Texas Jim]

.... If you are gonna do it... might as well do it right...

 

[che22879]

Great job!

 

[Carolinaboy]

Throw a GT500 engine in there

 

[bigredstx]

If I had the money this little 4.6 wouldn't be going back in there!! But check prices on ford racing, ridiculous!!

 

[Zembonez]

Building Ford V8s is expensive! They should have stuck with pushrod engines like GM has. Much simpler and every bit as capable of making power... AND a lot more reliable long term. You Ford guys might not like to hear that, but show me a 4.6 owner that got 150K out of his engine without major repairs and I'll show you a lucky SOB. I think Ford is screwing you. LS engines often go 300K without ever having a valve cover off...

 

[bigredstx]

The further we got in to it we realized it had more than likely that it over heated at one point and cracked a head. I got it at about 32k so it's possible. The driver side (good side) had a different valve cover bolt and was missing a bolt on the power steering pump, not probable from the factory. Plus the pistons on the drivers side 5 6 7 8, which you can see In the pic are spotless compared to the passenger side. I don't know, but it's fishy

 

[bigredstx]

Heads and block are going off Monday.. Got bored and did a little painting

Got rid of that ugly faded lettering

 

[bigredstx]

Trucks beginning to have that "new part" smell

 

[mhockey9090]

Want to tear my apart so i can clean the engine bay? haha looking good. Wish i had the knowledge to do that stuff

 

[bigredstx]

Gonna roll it out tomorrow and clean it spotless!!! Hopefully... Work and school is delaying this project