I was hearing a lot of noise from your HPFP but I couldn'tany bottom end noise. Fresh bearing won't hurt anyhow. 🤷♂️ Lol also, balance shaft delete is the way to go.
Thanks for the video, been lots of help, you may or may not know but if I have a balance shaft delete do I need to find top dead center and retime. A retime never hurts but I'm a little pinched for time to get it done.
What symptoms were you getting that made you do this? My starter is struggling quite a bit to turn engine - feels like a spun bearing and quite a bit of noise... need to open up to investigate. Did you have much trouble getting it to seal with RTV? Looks like it has to slide up the time chain cover which wipes off the RTV?
How hard was it to get that balancer back on correctly? I have the same engine in my Ford Fusion that I need to do the same thing on, so Thank You for this video! If its my first bearing that's bad will I even have to take the balancer off? Thanks
The balancer isn’t hard to get back on it’s just incredibly awkward and heavy. As long as the dimples on the balancers are at 6:00 your good. If it’s cylinder #1 your good I would assume. The balancer isn’t blocking it at all. What I didn’t go over was the real way to time the engine. You have to remove a bolt on the back of the engine around where cylinder #1 crank is located. You pull the bold and install a bolt tool thing that goes in and you turn the crank and the crank will hit the tool. That is TDC for cylinder #1. I’m ordering the tool plus a oil pan gasket so I’ll be going over this again in a video. I’ll have to take the balancer off again to do it correctly. Cheers
@@budzbuildz1285 Thank you for answering. I just finished mine, luckily it was bearing #1 that was spun so I did not need to fool with all that. Everything sounds good, Its been idling for 45 mins. I am gonna take her for a spin next. I will be looking for that next video for next time.
Thanks very much for this. My speed 6 has rod knock aswell. After a swapped stock motor with around 70 000 miles. Did you lube the new bearings when you put them in? Also just curious about the bearing sizes that you ordered
No I didn’t lube the bearings before putting them in. If I had the engine out and was doing a real rebuild I absolutely would have. I unfortunately, was laying on dirt and wood shavings lol so I didn’t want anything to stick to the bearings while i was putting them in. Glad this was helpful. I’ll be doing another video on how to correctly set TDC. I’m still waiting for the tool to arrive.
Mine is making that same noise. Like an intermittent knock at idle. I'm thinking it's the valve buckets needing different sizes. I have datalogged it and there is no knock at WOT so weird. I haven't done the vvt or chains so I'm going to do that first. Any update on yours?
