Pain in the ass

slow96hater

slow96hater

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Working on my first duratec 3.5 water pump. 11 1/2 hours in and just pulled the pump. Not a terrible job, but time consuming. I think I’m gonna pick up a couple more and see about the flip.
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Yeah. I’m hoping I got lucky. Pulled a few cam caps to look for water in oil damage but they all look good. I heard all the water drain out of the heater core and instanly figured the motor was toast. Only about half a gallon of water came out of the pan, so I’m gonna gamble on it. Water pump was $160, and I’m gonna gamble on the timing stuff, since the chain looks to be newer (the timing marks painted on the chain all look new, and the guides have very very little wear). I’ll have it back together and running in the next week or 2. I’ve been working on it about 2 hours a night to keep from getting too frustrated, and been taking weekends off with it as well. So far so good. The timing cover had me pretty pissed the night it came out, that was quite the battle. This is a MKZ, so it’s really tight in there. Most in car jobs on YouTube are in ford flex’s and they seem to have quite a bit more room.


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I found out a pretty good way to battle these things last night. If I woulda realized it in the beginning of the job, I think I’d be about 6 hours faster on it. Either way, it should be running again Saturday and I’m planning on putting a hundred miles or so on it then doing a engine flush. I’m glad I took the job on and have been taking my sweet ole time doing it, and now I feel like I got a good handle on the entire job. I’ll probably go cruise tele with it, big boy was hopping last Saturday around 9pm. Had a line waiting to get into the parking lot. Here’s a picture of fresh silicone and the cover back in place. If anyone needs to do one of these things, I have a few tips now and can help out.
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mustangmike6996 said:
How did the chains/tensioners look?

I had to replace chains/tensioners/guides on my 2013 3.5EB around 60k.
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I replaced the tensioner with a cloyes, and I’m really happy at start up not hearing chain slap anymore, the stock one was either worn out, or just didn’t hold tension as well as the cloyes in my opinion. My guides just had very very slight wear, you could look at them and see Mark’s from the chain riding, but no real grooves to speak of, so I elected to try it out and use them. No noise, and runs like a top now. I have 1,000 miles and 2 oil changes in it now since restart.


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