Ford 5.4L 3v Triton Engines: When Aftermarket Timing Jobs Goes Bad…

motors come like this and they're just destroyed, let them go too far, the key here is to clean, clean the heads, clean the front area of ​​the cover and once you take it off, you know, little pockets on the head and everything, and These pieces get caught and then of course, drop the pan and clean very, very well, if you want. I see some flashes inside some metal elements here, that's all from the front cover, it's not the rod bearings or the main bearings that get chewed up and everything comes loose, it's just the front cover okay, so what happens is it kind of falls off. it gets sprayed, there's a little wheel up here, it gets a belt, it flows down there and it just sits there and sits on the bottom, so it's not really a problem, it's not a big deal, it requires a lot of cleaning, but it's no It's a big deal, but the problem

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all those pieces break is that the pill fills up a little bit, you look up, pull it back a little bit, voila, it's a little clearer, it's packed, so another reason really important why I want to pull the tray and do something like this right, so let's go ahead and pull the front cover.

All the bolts are outside, they should fall out. Let's see how it went wrong. Okay, so let's move on. I'm going to try to do it. Do this with one hand without destroying anything, so on the cover, here, what happens, this is the passenger side, this is the side that will always have the most wear, so, like I said, that big guy is Up here, everything is upside down. Right now we're looking from the other side, but that guide I was talking about breaks and it's thinner and flimsier, it's up here, so once it's taken off, the chain falls down here and starts chewing up the things, okay, this is really not like that.

Too bad we're getting a lot of metal, I think it's because the guide on this side, like I said, is gone. No, this is tight, okay, but the guide should be here, actually, lift it up a little bit and it's here. laying it all the way down and there's the other half so I don't know why it broke like I said you know put it back a little bit there you go like I said the guide on the side is a lot thicker and the chain is placed and it moves fine and let's say the tensioner failed here, okay, it's already placed on it, while this liner yes, he was right, the person who did this

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job with spare parts and without tightening things and There are loose things.

The pins and mixed pins did not clean the tray, how do I know that? Well, like I said, you see these ribs here on the back of this, they're just on the passenger side guide and you can see that this guide is intact everywhere. The bottom of the guide is intact, okay, it's broken right here, I can tell you right now, I can't see there very well, let me stand up and show you, there you go, I know this one is broken, but all the pieces are basically here because it cracks and separates, but this part here, which is the first section left, is still here, so all those pieces that we're seeing, these ribs, this spine, the thing that looks like the spine in the pan, they're the original ones that broke many moons ago, so I never cleaned the pan, yeah, so this all looks good to go here, I mean, all the bolts are on things.

I don't really understand why it broke, let me see this bolt is loose, no, and that's the right bolt, that's the right bolt down there. and this turnbuckle seems fine, we know the phaser is finished, but that's because the part failed, that has nothing to do with anything else going on here. Original oil pump, they never changed it, which you know, if you're on a budget, that's fine, but you can see all the clearance on this side. This is horrible. It's mainly because it showed up here and you can see that this one is holding up for now.

He's also a goalkeeper, yeah, so yeah, there's a lot of bad things going on here, especially with. this guy left, that thing completely disappeared, it's a huge thick guide and he just sat there, hit it, chewed it and it all fell into the pan and clogged the pill there, very interesting, so yeah, this is not so bad, the guide being broken created a big mess, but it didn't do much otherwise because, like I said, the chain is here, but

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it's down, it's going to chew up the head a little bit, you know, and it's going to create some metal under there of the pieces.

All these little pockets, you see here, they're everywhere. When this happens anywhere you need to really investigate, like on this head in the top back corner, I'll just look at it there to check it out. see if there's any damage to the cam lobes and there was a piece of the plastic guides back there, so you have to be thorough with the cleaning every time you do something like this, but this will get the crazy Ford Tech treatment, here we are. I'm going to do my best, clean it really good and put in all the new Ford stuff.

High volume oil pump. Clean everything very well and seal it very well. Otherwise, it's not so bad. We can definitely save it. You don't need an engine for Sure, now, with everything clean and back together, look, it looks like new from the factory, I mean, it's like everything is back together, all the pieces were there in the back of the box, so everything It's back together, it looks good to fill the coolant with oil and we're ready to start it up and run it, let it warm up, bleed the coolant, all that good stuff, so let's see how this puppy that needed an engine works, oh , it starts immediately, of course it needs an exhaust manifold, the customer knows this, but how does the engine run smoothly?

I'll tell you let's check the scan tool and see what's really going on here. Let's let it reset there and see our power balance there. To top it off, now that you have new coolants and oil and all new Ford parts here, I buy the oil pump, everything is cleaned properly. Now we're going to give you a courtesy pcm update that actually increases the rpm, the base idle rpm. the engine and fix some other quality issues with the software and we'll let it relearn after that and that will end well, that's all for now, see you next time.