I DESTROYED The Engine in My Foxbody! Let Me Explain... 

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Craig puts exhaust on truck. Breaks engine. Put exhaust on fox. Breaks engine😂

Blew up another motor---what a surprise !!!

I put 100k HARD miles on my mustang and it was still running perfectly at about 145k miles when it was flooded. These engines are usually very tough and reliable.

Was I the only one screaming at Craig about the bypass hose still being attached?! 😂

Knock knock who's there, blown engine😟👍

It's a Ford my friend, and it ain't no big thing to you. You got the talent to fix that fox body. Now it will be stronger than before. 😊

Dang man that sucks seems like you're always having engines mess up can't wait to see the f100 back on the road

The HO motors definitely take a good kicking. My old man has had his 87 GT since 89, has around 450,000kms on it now, redid the top end a few years back and pulled one main and one rod. Not much wear at all threw a high volume oil pump at it just to help it out and still runs strong. Have a soft spot for these motors lol.

That 302 took a Hell of a beating for a worn-out motor. Don't listen to the Nay Sayers. I beat on my 289 cu in my Ranchero for years. Infact I was running to the parts store for my Chevy buddies for blown motors. Ha ha. I Drove it over 100 miles with blown head gaskets fogging everyone out. 😅😅

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that engine had 288k on it. Those 5.0s are pretty durable. The low tension rings and high nickel blocks wear really well.

engine rebuild might look good painted Ford blue

Atleast you are doing this with friends and laughing on some things hey just a chance to build it fresh or somewhat fresh and healthy

I worked at at Ford dealer back in the 80' and work a few hundred 5.0. Seeing the oil pan has been off before, the oil pickup would stop up on these year of 5.0, if there was not good oil changes. The previous owner ran with low oil pressure. Then had the oil pickup replaced but not the bearings. You were lucky you made it to the shop. Also when you put lower intake on, use Fel Pro intake gasket. Glue the cork china rail gaskets to the block using 3M weatherstrip adhesive.

The 347 in my F100 started making a knock when it gets warm. Pan being pulled soon. Just when I was shopping for a ‘62 Galaxie. Had to back out of that deal. Sucks. Oooh, bearing should not look like a penny!

Better check piston to valve clearance with dome piston..

Craig I am glad that you were able to get the fox body safely to the shop. I am looking forward to your next video

Honestly I have the same exact motor in my f150 and you helped me diagnose what needed to be taken care of on my motor, and no bottom end noise just some noisey rockers and a oil pan leak lol, thanks for the help man definitely getting a fox body shirt too they are pretty sick

How about pulling the drain plugs out of the block to drain the coolant left in the block. It will limit the mess.

The king of breaking 302's.😂

Well brother that's the street car ran like a drag car life. Rebuild and upgrade parts for sure

Finally a fox update sucks to see the 302 go

I drove my 1991 f250 with a 351w from Virginia to Indiana and then to Oklahoma on 4 lbs of oil pressure at idle and 15 lbs at 2700 rpm. Made it like a champ

I really enjoy the content. Fox body is my fav

i love that you rebuild the engine. That's the only real way to ensure YOU have it setup correctly instead of assuming other people did their jobs right.

How about some kind of update on the F-100 frame at your buddy's house. Or Franklin's Pre-Runner F-100.?

Watching you struggle down that hill brought some memories, some good some not so good

Might aswell make the engine quick release just incase it breaks in 10min

thanks 9 i needed a new one

I would suggest that You have the connecting rods resized before You reuse them it will save You grief in the long run . Best Wishes and Good Luck 🇺🇲🇵🇷🦊👍

Having access to the experience you guys have with the 302 windsor would be real nice right now. I need to rebuild mine in my 88 fox and I've never had good luck with messing with engines. Always worse than when I started.

Upgrade time for the 302!! Looking forward to the rebuild!

I just found your channel about a month ago and man I love it keep up the videos love the fox body content👍

My roller 302 in my 61 Falcon had a cam bearing (middle journal) let go and come apart and did the EXACT same thing to the rod and crank bearings. It also did it (started knocking) about eight thousand miles after I swapped in a Motorsport X-303 in it.

Sorry it happened to you. Easter present to yourself is a stroker kit instead of a chocolate bunny

Every time you work on the fox body it makes me wanna build the 302 in my truck then by the end of the video I'm like maybe it can wait while it still runs good 😅

That design came out killer! Kudos to the designer!

this video honestly explains so much because i knew something was fishy when you lost to your buddy in that race a while back because had it been bored stroked etc like we thought you wouldve smoked him oh well and hey craig stop breaking motors ya know ya dont have to redline the shit out of everything

Doin it right, run it like like you stole it, build it like you love it.

Craig it was fine your 302 just wanted to be come a diesel 😂😂

All the Chevy guys are going crazy rn Craig!

Alwais the same guys with heavy right foot who break the engines!!

Nice, 3 bar heads for the win

You know we took junk yard 5.0 motors and ran 11's all motor then sprayed the crap out of it and dragged bumpers and hitting 10's at Carlsbad years ago. What are you doing to these things and breaking them left and right. And my 351 was built by Ed hale back in the late 90's and that motor would Rev to the moon and never left me stranded.

❤❤ I love your videos, awesome con tent

351 Swap, 408 Stroker kit! That would be awesome

347 stroker if off the shelf at summit.

New sub I enjoyed watching your content keep it going ☝️🙏🔥

Craig, your hard on equipment 😂😂

Gonna be a fun week!

Good one with the ole Woodie Cowboy 🤠 hat 💯💯💯

When I pulled my small block mopars intake off, it was full of copper in the valley as well, except it wasn’t knocking 😂

Damn Craig chewing up 302 motors like no tomorrow, oh well , makes for great content. Cheers 🇨🇦

I'm about to work on my 5.0. the valley is rusted because it sat in a field. I pulled the heads and the cylinders look fine.

You need to shim the piston return springs. They need at least 200 pounds of pressure on the domes at T.D.C.

The rest of the cylinders is from the cylinder's condensating when the car was sitting. As far as the motors mileage my fox body had a stock 302 with well over 200k that had the absolute hell beat out of it often,even before i got it a guy used to run spray on it. Been hot several times,raced,revved and it still ran great when I sold it.they are tough motors

25 yrs ago I refreshed 2 HOs at our machine shop. 100k and 150k. Both mic'd out as standard.

Dang a 302 mustang not bored over?!

I was just casually looking for something to watch while eating and say this video. I literally said “Oh no…”😂

Need a buzz cut bro. It's nice that you have your own shop now. Proud of you bro you come a long way. You'll get your car fixed no problem. 🙏🦾💇

The 5.0 HO engines can take a beating! That deffy looked like an untouched shortblock. Overhaul it right, and it will be fine.

great stuff thanks

My stock fox body when I bought it the original motor never rebuilt it had 292,000 km on it. That’s almost 180,000 miles and it still ran good but when I put nitrous on it it was passing enough oil that we couldn’t safely tune it. When we pulled it apart we could’ve put rings in it hold it bearing and put it back together it didn’t seem to have any major problems at all but instead I threw everything away turned it into a 331 through a supercharger on it put Scat rotating assembly, Edelbrock everything else, girdle and now I’ve got 600 wheel and I’ve had it for years

check the block # it should match the vin just in case it’s a replacement motor!

awesome video

Well I just bought a foxbody shirt, the 50 bucks is going right into the actual car I’m sure😂

cant wait for the procharger rebuild! (please)

9:17 are the famous last words lmfao

Hopefully you post more videos now 👍🏽

I just seen a video of that off road limo that you showed when you went to the race. It broke down and someone stripped it clean.

Love the videos! Please don’t pull drive shafts will only having jack hold up the rear end. Recipe for disaster. So easy to toss some jack-stands under that old school solid axle.

Big shock!

Somebody get this guy a coolant sponsorship asap 😂 damn dude not the foxbody 🤦 can't wait to see it up and running

Just a heads up, stock forged piston engines had low tension stainless top rings so with all the torture, overheating, and hundreds of turbo with nitrous passes on mine along with throwing everything bottom end into 2 other blocks after splitting those blocks.... i still have stock bearings/rings it came with and worst cylinder has 13-14% leakdown so reuse the stock rings as they are nearly bulletproof. Replacement moly costed cast iron rings are junk without proper hone/breakin. Replace the balancer unless you already have

What did you use to take the harmonic balancer off? Mine came off by hand

Need a crank…. I smell a stroker kit lol

Would u consider a stroker engine with the same exhaust setup

You can check the smog history of a car going back to the late 90's if it ever lived in a smog county, I'd start there for trying to see if it ever rolled over.

stoker crank would be cool

Thats when he f____d up 🙊 i had the same my engine was out of a 70s mustang 2 when you put it back together do the oil pump drive to they have a tend to spin from adge good luck fixing it i ended up stoking mine good old sumit racing

Craig_ been watching your RU-vid channel for a few years now and I have come to the realization that your heavy foot hard shifts are the bain of all your engine problems. All that work, all the investments down the drain once again. Keep up the content as I will continue to watch, Thanx!

Craig looks like Rowdy Roddy Piper 😂😅😂

Great vid. Would be cool to see a 331 or 347 stroker be built

now a big engine with turbos lol 😂😂

That sucks about your engine craig 😕 I have a 1968 302 that is probably 90%original and never been touched so I know someday I should rebuild it but it will be interesting to see how well it helped up after so many decades

SINCE ITS TORE DOWN . ARE YOU GOING TO PUT A BIGGER CAM IN IT AS WELL

maybe throw in a better cam like a Anderson N41 or something, the F 303 cam is a cam for boost from a blower or turbo and then when you drive it, dont tev the piss out of it at every opportunity?

Bummer .... 2 motors in a few months ! My 1st stang was a 69.. Then a 73 , a 76 Cobra . In 84' I bought a new 5.0 stang. (Still my fav) Bought a new 95 5.0 . In 98' I bought "2" new stang GT's . I got T-boned by a girl who blew a redlight & totaled my GT with 3800 miles on it... I bought it back from the insurance because the driveline was still practically new .. And they sold it back for scrap prices practically... The day after I got hit , I ordered a GT exactly the way I wanted it .. It came in a month later ... My last stang was a 06' GT . I stored it 99% of the time & when my son turned 16 , (in 20016) I handed him the keys.. It only had 16k miles on it... He still has it ...its been banged up & fixed 3 times . The last time I had em repaint the whole car . (In 2020) . He now has it stored away . It has 80k on it , but looks fantastic in & out... He's 23 y/o & he says he's saving it for his son/daughter one day.. He always loved that car & never thought Id ever let it go... But I bought it & stored it when he was 6 y/o..(for him) Your stang will come back better since you have to rebuild it anyway ... There's a lot of stock parts on that motor .. With a strong top end & stock bottom end , I think you probably got dang lucky it wasnt worse ..

Buy alot of merchandise Craig needs a new 347 Stroker motor!

May need that Dodge to drag You home😅

Gotta say, your right, no one blows up sbfs quite like you, lol. I ran my 89 f150 outta oil a couple times in my younger yrs by accident, that motor was still goin 50k after i sold it, went through a rear end but still had theoriginal motor at 200k.

Can you give a run down of the engine and what's done to it?

T5??? I blew up three of those before that I blew up 3 AODE’s I did not want an automatic car but it was so much cheaper and the car was absolutely perfect I figured I would switch it and the AOD’s were freeish. After that gong show I put in a TKO 600 in and have never looked back best part is 2nd to 3rd you just put the palm of your hand on the shifter and push forward and it will put itself in the third you don’t have to guide it over you never grab the shifter on the 2-3 shift it’s a beautiful thing. And so strong

Check the taper of cylinder

Is the exhaust curse a sign to run open headers?

I got my fox in 2000 with 118k, put on a 100k of hell. Still had great oil pressure when I sold it.

Lmao, called it on last video I believe, said "how to destroy engine 101"

And that's why they called Mustakes!!!

Need to do more then the crank,,,pistons are too loose

My all original 90k mile fox blew up before 100k. It’s was my great grandpa cars and was well taken care of, just soemtimes they go