Blown Up Ford 5.0 Coyote V8 Total Teardown! 2011-2014 Mustang GT / F150 

This great man and his great RU-vid channel is/are destined for the YT Stars! Fred

"Maintenance managers" encounter a lot of "catastrophic failure", do they?

I agree.

Agreed and on point.

New rocket ships are awesome, in e'ry way. But fancy parts do make for fancy repair bills

yes it does....coming from a old ford guy and a guy that has scene alot of chevys--and they are pretty tough. the coyote got good parts

Yeah I was surprised at how simple it actually was for what it is.

If she was anything like my gandpa then yes! Race duty, church duty and normal city duties like going to the grocery store and forgetting to turn the tune down before grandma had to go get said groceries!

I think the church was 1/4 mile away from home....

She raced and never changed the oil…

The church was only a 1/4 mile away.

Never lie to your mechanic or doctor they will eventually figure out the truth.

They're good engines, but like anything else, preventative maintenance is everything. I do synthetic oil changes every 5000 on my 5.0 F150 and I always use Motorcraft oil filters. Neglect or abuse any engine and eventually it's gonna fail. People skip their oil changes and use garbage parts then can't understand why shit goes wrong.

@@Sagittarius-88 I use synthetic oil for my F150 as well.

@@Sagittarius-88 Fords biggest mistake is it's oil change computer. Never wait for that thing to tell you to change oil.

@@jafo49 Agree, and there's certainty other companies that are doing their customers a disservice by recommending ridiculous intervals between oil changes. I've always lived by the rule of 3000 miles for conventional oil, 5000 for synthetic. Anything over that is far too much, considering that most people do not check their oil level between services.

Yeah, precision transmission is interesting, but he shows way less about assembly, That’s what I want to see.

Of course it never gets old, it is the mystery and finding out what has happened that is interesting. Think of it as an automotice Sherlock Holmes, who murdered this engine or transmission!

Me too. I love it when a “professional shop” rebuilds a trans, then he has to fix it with 5 miles on the rebuild.

Precision transmission is awesome. That guy is a national treasure

@@CMDRSweeper "Who the hell would watch someone tear down an engine?" Two hours later . . . "Huh. I wonder if this one is going to turn over."

Truly all round good engines tend to be like that.

And a lead foot.

It’s the ford logo in the front

They circle the problem on the front for ya.

@@ernestjohnson1807 Haha, so original!

@@ernestjohnson1807Damn you Ernie, my Raptor is grumbling at you.

Apparently the guy that owned this coyote didn’t love his enough.

same here

Dude if you can go get a cheap harbor freight engine and tear it down and rebuilt with aftermarket parts hahahah make a race engine

You can do it yourself, but start small. Look for people throwing out weed whackers or lawn mowers and have fun.

Me too.

I did pro lawn equipment my employees fucked up to total distruction.. I have a very old echo blower ... 20 years old .. still my favorite as far as power to weight.. a fat new guy put regular gas in it and ignored the heat and noise and motor slowing down till he locked it up .. I was devistated .. I took it all the way down and got the rings unstuck .. there was scoring on the cylinder wall but I figured what the heck .. let's see if I can't put it back together just to find out .. It's back together and still running like a top .. I was stunned ... I do all my small moter stuff now and it's normal to see the kind of scoring the coyote had .. For some reason these just keep going strong .. the scoring doesn't seem to impede the motor at all .. to this day I've lost a lot of motors but gotten them all back just by a quick teardown and look see.. I have put new parts in some that were really bad but their all still chugging .. I got to be the dumping ground for all the large companies here just to find out free of charge what lead to the destruction so they could manage their employees accordingly .. I've only lost one kholer motor on an xmark but it came it with inspection holes in the block .. Employee fail and fire situation .. If they don't own it they will knowingly run it into the ground simply just so they don't have to go to the truck and get it's back up unit .. Thousands lost simply bc an asshole didn't want to have to walk 5 Xtra min .. Yes this is the world we live in .. And no , there's nothing we can do to fix it.. We are all doomed in a few generations

There are several channels with knowledgeable and humble guys tearing things apart. Some of them put things together too! precisiontransmission, vicegripgarage, ...

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It's a Ford... surprised the spark plugs came out...

@@BuzzLOLOL usually they shoot out😂

@@geronebner9535 Only really on the 4 thread motors, but yes that was a problem for awhile. Other end of the spectrum was never getting them out in one piece...Best thing you could do on the 5.4 was buy it,, get home, let it cool for 8 hours and pull the plugs, lather on some quality anti sieze and put back in.... for 75,000 miles.Never could see them going the 100,000 they said they'd go.

"Mechanicly regapped" is certainly a phrase that has entered my lexicon.

A 9mm works when rust/corrosion takes its toll on 10mm bolt heads

Crazy seeing my fav retro tech guy comment on my fav engine tear down guy's channel :-D

Hi, Adrian!

@@tstahlfsu Same here. Finding a comment from Adrian of ADB & ADB ][ is unusual, to say the least! Fred

I worked in a bike shop, as in bicycle, for about 8 years and just about everything was 9mm. Maybe they're made just for us.

It's a Fram so it's probably the reason the engine failed in the first place

With fram, failure is not an option, it's a guarantee.

@@DJ-sr9yq Sad part is Fram used to be good stuff 30-40yrs ago. IMO WIX is the best aftermarket filters now. Purolator is good too.

With Nos😃

And in those 10 seconds or less, it became free (of this mortal coil).

More like it was someone who thought they were into cars and bought the status symbol. And then didn't know how to take care of it. They probably went to the discount tire store and bought the cheapest offered for the vehicle as well. The whole vehicle will be in salvage sooner rather than later, and the owner will think the vehicle was all hype, never realizing they were the problem.

Good eye. It looks like the wrist pin ripped the piston bore out when the driver lifted at the end of the 1/4 mile. appliedspeed.com

@@dalestephan6777 absolutely, and a lean fuel ratio.

Plus he has yet another "trophy" for his Front Counter! Fred

I'm sure his metal buyer is happy!

Apparently a Prius 3cyl has 9mm 12 point head bolts

Everytime I get rid of a tool I am not using I suddendly out of nowhere need it for a job!

Back glass surround on early 2000's ford trucks....9m.m.

Finding a 9 mm bolt is like finding a unicorn

@@fastyzzzff 3/8 works if your lucky lol

FRAM Ultra’s are great filters. Motorcraft and Purolator’s fail quite often as seen on BITOG.

@Derek Young It’s looking like some spin-on Wix part numbers have become repainted Purolator’s. Just Mann & Hummel trying to squeeze as much money out as they can.

He does reminds me of Adam Sandler almost.

Second video of Eric's after watching the LS 7 litre teardown and I went looking for this comment LOL.

This guy has more talent than Adam Sandler...

This motor likely died from overheat or boost, the first gen has bad coolant flow on the back cylinders, and they like to run out of ring gap and either score the shit outta the cylinders creating a massive compression leak, or they just make piston mcnuggets and adjustable rods like those one did. Usually the trucks score the walls on an overheat, Usually the mustang models make nuggets and stuff.

Coyote's are fairly simple compared to the more exotic OHC engines.

Coyote is an amazing platform and honestly one of Ford's best engines.

What is it, a Buick from 50 years ago?

well the skinny rods & gerotor oil pump & case remind me of the same items out of a carbed 1.9L 1986 Ford Escort. Only slightly beefier. : l For 'Coyote' use I suppose...... ??

@@timewa851 Remind.!! Is that because there both Ford.!! Hmmm.!!

Agree. Some of their stuff isn't bad, at least in recent years. Although on anything I can (even if it isn't Ford), I run Motorcraft filters. Very well built at a surprisingly cheap price.

This. Fram isnt just "orange can o death". The Ultra is probably one of the best filters out there, fairly inexpensive and very readily available.

HiGhEr EnD fIlTeR

It's junk. Get an Amsoil .

@@stephenhusak6098 $$$

Yep. Over head cam motors are not tiny even when they are considered lower "displacement" for a v8.

That’s an overhead cam engine for you.

What part of town u inn?

People hear the "Ti-VCT VVT DOHC" and think it's complex, but honestly this engine isn't too hard to follow, unlike the German counterparts.

Oh yea me to. Got a 2011 gt 5.0 stang, love it. Just bought a new ,, bbk oil seperater, works great, on the 5.0 litre stang.

it's a fram, nothings inside the filter. It's all in the engine.

Ford Engineer made a pair in his garage, seriously..Ford wanted the 2011 to make 400hp naturally aspirated. Engineer said that they had to have these stainless steel tri shorty headers, no matter the extra cost. Hence, they came out with 2011 Muscle Car of the year, 420hp

Yes they sure are. I promise you the current engine is far worse. I know cus i work at the plant where these are built.

Have 120,000 absolutely no problems 2012GT auto, ran Royal Purple to about 70,000 then shop stopped carrying it, would have cost me 140 for oil change. Burns 1 quart between a 5 thousand oil change, with spirited driving. I dont go with the 10,000 oil changes. A good high milage synthetic. Car still will go 150mph with confidence. Probably put in a Ford Performance Crate Motor at some point to last, untill 2035 when we cant but fossil fuel. Enjoy....

The high end Fram full synthetic filters are great filters unlike their garbage low end Frams. Allied Signal actually did a great job on the build quality of them . They’re nothing like the cheap orange cans of death.

Nothing wrong with the filter choice.

"I was just driving normally" (engine is shattered to zillions of bits, transmission is cracked) haha.

Why would "the tune" add a condition to make things worse?

@@imtheonevanhalen1557 In the early days of the coyote whoever wrote the tunes were a little too aggressive with the timing because they didn’t fully understand the engine yet. It was quickly corrected once they found out what was happening.

@@imtheonevanhalen1557 bad tunes can ruin anything.

@@TheImtoomuch both in the engine and inside the vehicle!

@@imtheonevanhalen1557 changing timing can cause heat increase. If you have a cylinder already prone to poor cooling you have a biiig bang waiting to happen the instant you stress it.

Sludge is a whole genre of metal and I'm not pulling your leg, there really is an entire music culture around "sludge metal". Pretty cool music too :-)

Liquid metal

Like someone else mentioned, sludge metal is an entire sub-genre of heavy metal. If you're interested in some good examples, check out Acid Bath, Eyehategod, and Down!

"She didn't pay extra for all 8 quarts"

@@Tarkov. bruh you have no idea how often people flip out when they find out it says 'for the first 5 quarts' i remember a guy saying 100$ for an oil change?! WHY? sir your lexus takes 9 quarts full synthetic, you specified mobil 1.

@@bradhaines3142 that shit is just gimmicky especially when you consider your average bonehead consumer. I understand people are cheap and ignorant but that sounds like a gimmick to me

@@JR-uc1of whats the gimmick? the first 5 quarts policy? wrong word for it, id say its disingenuous. though most cars are 5 or less, more and more use more of it. almost any truck is going to be 6 or 7, and a lot of luxury cars use 7+, any diesel truck is 10+ but those owners tend to know that thankfully.

I'm more apt to put the blame on that oil filter. But it's entirely possible.

@@TestECull That, as well as likely just a low oil level/badly maintained as mentioned previously. In 2011-2012, the hypereutectic pistons needed the oil jets to stay cool, so a combination of low oil and a bad tune would nuke the #8 piston pretty good.

mainly onn the fseries 5.0. only the mustangs got the forged oil pump gears. many upgrade that part around the same time they tune it.

Hasn’t oil consumption been an issue with these mills? Spray-in Nickasil coating that sucked?

@@prevost8686 Not on this Gen 1 block, it has iron sleeves.

You dont need ring gap or higher octane fuel

There’s always risk. Sometimes I buy a wrecked car from a tow lot or auction and just because it “runs and drives” doesn’t mean it’s got a good engine. You’re right though, as long as you win more often than you lose, you can continue to play.

That's just criminal to do an engine like that. However, I think you can get 7K easy (and maybe more) with synthetic oil. No? (Properly filled, of course).

@@scott1564 from factory yes you can, manual says 6k miles. I have a 2016 5.0 with a 3L whipple on it pushing 958rwhp. All that is done to the engine itself is billet crank sprocket, billet oil pump gears, headstuds to prevent head lift and gapped my rings ofc. But rods, crank, pistons, rockers and springs are all stock. All it has had essentially is preemptive work. It is my daily, i beat the crap out of it and it has been going strong for 27k miles boosted. 5.0 mustangs are the best bang for your buck platform to build off of

@@tinchocore6777 I have the 2016 5.0 but in an F150.

I can attest to that 😕

Same as the 1UR FSE which is also a very similar engine but with DI.

Do they really? It’s a shame we’re not past that after over 100 years of developing the internal combustion engines.

@@TheImtoomuch you must not know how rings, compression and crankcase ventilation works

@@thefordmaniac dumb answer. Typical Ford fan. Don't insinuate that all engines burn or leak significant amounts of oil from new because they do not.

Who do you think Ford got the ideas from......? European and Asian car makers have been using that design for decades

@@factsuniverse851 Lmaoo honestly

It's funny, this is the first time I've heard of them being a problem. Back when I changed my own oil I used them all the time and never had any problems.... but I also changed oil every 3000 miles.

@@juvandy Yep. Just people who’ve never run FRAM filters making baseless claims.

@@warrenself The low end fram filters are terrible. You’ve replied on every comment about how they suck defending them. Spend five minutes online looking at fram filter teardowns and see the shitty construction for yourself. Google search the thousands of fram failure stories. Just because you’ve used them for 80 years and never had a problem, doesn’t mean they don’t suck. People have been smoking their whole lives doesn’t mean thats good either.

@@kingssuck06 To each their own. Go ahead and run an orange can yourself and back it up with a UOA then do the same with your favorite brand. I can also jump online and see Purolator’s tear for days, Wix filter only 50% at 20 microns, etc.

As low as $700 for 4... but still not "cheap"... www.modularmotorsportsracing.com/cart/index.php Plus, after 6 good rods, toss the rest of the engine... buy a used or new one...