Foreign Weapons and Obscure Builds V3

GA Firing Line

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Don't flip it over, it'll taste like ass!

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I'm just geting caught up. And have some cool pain pills, i might have to edit this later...

Start with the cheap fixes (seafoam) etc. Then move to the most expensive thing (the whole dame engine). I'm usually done the "bottom up fixing" by about step 5 at worst.
I’m starting to get optimistic that it just needs to be cleaned. Maybe at the most have the valve train redone
 

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I’m starting to get optimistic that it just needs to be cleaned. Maybe at the most have the valve train redone

Funny thing about my 1997 F150 (4.2 v8, i think- been a few years)...

I bought it well used with about 125k miles. Sold it with over 250k.

At some point early in my ownership, i switched it to full synthetic oil and started having oil pressure problems. Switched back to the syn blend.

Ran a bottle of seafoam through it... started getting a little water in the oil. (You know you have water in the crankcase if you get some brownish/whitish foam building up on the dipstick) Apparently i had structural carbon build up the was sealing some holes. Never used seafoam again in that motor.

Find a youtube showing some one removing the valve covers- they're just stamped covers that go over the ends of the valves, bake springs, and rocker arms. Sometimes, they just snap down, no fasteners required.