Is this the SOHC 2.3L? If so you should be able to find a replacement for under the $1000 price mentioned fairly easy. Ford made tons of these engines and the '95+ all share the same block/head asembly.
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Calling all mechanics!: An engine seizure story.
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I think you must have been the mechanic for the guy that sold my brother his first car. The Engine blew a few weeks after he bought it and the big ends bearings had been replaced with leather.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zf_knyj5ZY&sns=em
I took this video just now coming back to work. I used the road on the side of my building that has stop signs so you can hear the idling sound and then accelerating sound.
Both scary.
P.S. If I screwed the youtube linking, let me know.
I took this video just now coming back to work. I used the road on the side of my building that has stop signs so you can hear the idling sound and then accelerating sound.
Both scary.
P.S. If I screwed the youtube linking, let me know.
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I can't.... I can't see anything
Crap lol I went with an plan old link.
Please let me know if you guys have any greater concerns from listening to that.
I had another mechanic look at it (friend of the family) and he said I should be fine for a while if I baby it and take it easy.
In times past that kind of trick was common along with sawdust in a noisy diff and so on.
(sounds like a single big end gone by the way)
These mechanics telling you to baby it are retarded...something is broke and the more you run it the worse it is gonna get. Have it fixed before you destroy the motor beyond repair and even destroy components you can use on a replacement motor.
Just watched the video, I don't know who was telling you to drive it, but that something is terribly, terribly wrong with that engine. I have only limited experience with the engines of cars, but I know enough to know that if you keep driving your car you're going to be in a world of trouble very, very soon.
in brighter news, your car sounds like a sweet go kart.
Well, in their defense, they did say it will get worse if I do drive it. I think their point was more so that since I literally don't have the money to fix it, and I have no choice but to drive due to work necessity, I have to drive it very carefully and at pure minimum.
All of this with the understanding that a replacement is in the near future.
All in all, this just sucks. I hate hearing you guys agree that it's f-ed up. I was hoping for, "Oh that just sounds like a broken flibberjabber in your bunkadubber." and it'd be no big deal lol
Sigh.
All of this with the understanding that a replacement is in the near future.
All in all, this just sucks. I hate hearing you guys agree that it's f-ed up. I was hoping for, "Oh that just sounds like a broken flibberjabber in your bunkadubber." and it'd be no big deal lol
Sigh.
If it is a 2.3 that will only cause more problems. The auxiliary shaft that drives the oil pump already has problems with shearing the teeth off with a standard pump and 10-30.
The aux shaft is driven by the timing belt then there is a vertical shaft that drives the oil pump, and on older 2.3's, drives the distributor. That gear that connects the horizontal and vertical shaft has a long history of shearing the teeth off. 50w will only make that happen sooner, if not within a few days. In the older engines you would lose spark if the teeth go and you wouldn't harm the engine too much. On the new, distributor-less engines, you stop moving oil and cause more problems very quickly unless you regularly keep an eye on oil pressure, and this thread's existence is enough for me to guess that the OP doesn't.
If he has a V6 then ignore everything I just wrote, as I don't know anything about the V6's.
Oh.
I only know that it worked on my old '54 flat-head Ford V-8.
That ****er just would not die, in spite of what I did to her.
Had a great induction sound too.
Oh.
I only know that it worked on my old '54 flat-head Ford V-8.
That ****er just would not die, in spite of what I did to her.
Had a great induction sound too.
Other than exploding, is there any sound that a flathead makes that isn't beautiful? Only God could create such a beautiful sound as a flathead with open pipes...
Kids today have no idea.
Paid a friend $100 for it, in the mid-60's, drove it for 2 years, and sold it back to the same guy for $75.
Try that today.
Kids today have no idea.
Paid a friend $100 for it, in the mid-60's, drove it for 2 years, and sold it back to the same guy for $75.
Try that today.
My parents weren't even out of high school in the mid-60's!
I have been known to drive some old beaters that I bought for dirt cheap. I had a '65 F-100, 352FE, 3 on the tree that I bought for $100, 100% original right on down to the oil bath air filter. An '86 F-250 diesel that I bought for $50. I currently drive an '83 Ford van that I bought for $300. I like my daily drivers cheap and easy to fix.
I spent the whole day today under the hood of an '87 TurboCoupe that I bought for $800. Once it is running it will be my comfy "daily" driver.
I love the flatheads but can't afford to have them as a hobby, Instead I play with the 2.3L Fords, in turbocharged form. They sound like a cross between a sewing machine and a pissed off John Deere. They are cheap to own and mod, get GREAT fuel mileage once you mod them and no one expects a 4-banger Mustang to beat them
Well the silver lining here is that your flibberjabber seems to have made it through the incident unscathed...