3.0L and 3.8L ford engines

[briguy36]

Is the 3.8L engine block the same as the 3.0L block? Will the 3.0L heads bolt on the 3.8L block? What's the difference between the two engine blocks?

 

[Explorin94]

No........not even close. 3.8-90* V6, 3.0-60* V6

 

[adsm08]

3.0 = good car engine.

3.8 = junk no matter what it was put in.

 

[stegomon]

3.0 junk

 

[adsm08]

3.0 junk

Nah, they are ok in the Taurus. I really like the one in my wife's Escape.

 

[fangotango306]

thought the escapes had duratec v6's? not the same as a vulcan ranger motor......or am i mistaken

 

[adsm08]

thought the escapes had duratec v6's? not the same as a vulcan ranger motor......or am i mistaken

No, you are quite correct. Our 2010 Escape has the Duratec DOHC with VCT, quite a different animal from the Vulcan that was used in the Ranger.

I still like it. Trying to figure out how to put one in a Ranger. I'm thinking Lincoln LS engine and trans. No VCT, but everything else should work fine since the LS uses a 5R55S transmission.

 

[fangotango306]

your escape has that terrible electric steering too. i just changed one on an 08 with only 77k on it.. i like those vehicles other than that, and the suspension rides a little rougher than it should. and i kind of agree with the post above, i dont care for the vulcan 3.0l either.

 

[adsm08]

your escape has that terrible electric steering too. i just changed one on an 08 with only 77k on it.. i like those vehicles other than that, and the suspension rides a little rougher than it should. and i kind of agree with the post above,

I don't have any complaints about the ride. The steering I do not like at all. In my truck, or my B2 I can look anywhere I want and go straight down the road. In the Escape, I can't keep that stupid thing in a straight line even if I am watching the road. And I know the problem isn't the vehicle itself because I am the only one who has this problem with it.

i dont care for the vulcan 3.0l either.

I look at the 3.0 Vulcan in light the of the design being almost 30 years old by now. For something that hit production in the mid-80s, it is not at all a bad engine for a sedan. The are fairly reliable, easy to work on, and really simple. The biggest complaint I have about them is that they leak like a sieve.

The problem you will find looking at the 3.0 through the filter of a Ranger owner is that it was, from it's inception a car engine. Some pencil-pushing bean counter got the idea that the Ranger needed to keep the option of a smaller V6 when the 2.9 was phased out and some dumb engineer said "Hey, lets' use the 3.0!"

 

[fangotango306]

yeah lol engineers have to do something to keep their jobs!