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Makes it very hard to trust having someone else do work for you. Glad to see you are continuing to put the time into this and share your experience. Look forward to continuing the journey with you.
Thank You so much for this video. There are 100's of videos on here of people "slamming" engines together and either they don't show the important measurements or they don't know to do them. This is the difference between doing it right, and wondering how long it will last. I never, ever want to pull the engine from my truck again. I'm checking every single measurement I can while building it. It's the only way I know to feel comfortable it will last.
Thanks for another comment. You are right. There are many that I try to watch, but stop when it's not the content I was expecting. I too try to put things together so I don't have to worry. Many years ago I got to spend a lot of time with Bill Stroppe at his garage - weeks. The lesson was take care of all the little details and you won't have big issues. Build for endurance.
My heart sank watching this. My lord, how could any manufacturer allow this? I see you have a used OEM crank in and I am so happy you caught this. A great lesson to check for other peoples screw ups.
The service side of Ford doesn't care. The motor breaks, they get the supplier to pay for all the warranty, parts, and labor. And I'm sure they expect an owner to get the reman motor in and sell or trade-in the truck within a year or two.
For selfish reasons I hope you stay with this until you have a running truck. I believe you are working all of the issues out and building what could possibly be a motor that runs better than any other. Great video, thank you.
The measurements of the journals looked great, and they polished out nicely. Before I pulled the motor down I spot checked the front pistons for protrusion and saw good numbers. Since I never hydrolocked, I expected the rods to be fine, and they are. I keep getting caught with this Ford reman not anticipating how poorly the work was done. There's already another crank in the block, stock dimensions and both the strokes and protrusion numbers are good.
Btw you made it possible to get my truck back on the road doing this job on gravel in between jobs living full time in a fifth wheel with my wife and two kids.
Yes it was not ideal but I got it done and towed my 41’ fifth wheel 2 days later. Now I’m looking for some work welding across the country so I’ll let you know how it goes after I’ve put several thousand miles on it.
Thanks for the excellent video. They sure did butcher that crank. For sure stay away from Ford remans👍🏻 Hopefully you can find another crank or engine.
Lord no! I believe this motor was remanned at a Franklin facility bought by CAT and contracted by International and Ford. When you start to talk to mechanics for either International or Ford fleets, this is not uncommon, and why I included some of their online posts. I have more, including from someone who used to work there who couldn't believe what some employees got away with. There's very little QC; they didn't care and I'm sure to Int/Ford this was the lowest cost vendor. If you remember from my forensics video, the bearing issues, the debris, the valve cover both under the oil cooler. I keep getting surprised at how bad it can get, but this was the last issue (I think). I bought a used OE crank, that's in and will probably be the next video in the series.
I lapped the heads of my 6.0 and my head measures 44.94mm where I read spec should be 45mm, is this too much a deviation that I should get shorter push rods or a thicker head gasket?
I understand this is beyond frustrating, you paid a premium price for what was supposed to be a premium engine and from the vehicle manufacturer. This isn't what is expected from an OEM nor acceptable.
