I have questions for Ford. I have issues with Ford and the way they are designing/building vehicles, specifically the engines. I want to contact the design team to ask them why they stopped putting keyways on the cams and cranks. Nobody can tell me how to contact the people I want to talk to.
I've asked Ford's Tech Hotline, their response "Yeah, it's a dumb design, we don't know how to contact that group". I checked Ford's website, no information aside from the design team "exists". I just got done with a "live chat" with Ford's customer service who referred me to the dealership service center. I AM THE FREAKING DEALERSHIP SERVICE CENTER!!!!
I just put a 1.5 together today. I had to replace the short block because some retard at Ford OK'd for production a design that has an open faced water jacket against the head, between the cylinders. Surprise surprise it blows out the head gaskets. My 7 yo could have predicted that. I showed him a picture of that block and he said "daddy, that was a dumb idea".
So I've spent the last half of my week fixing yet another one of Ford's totally predictable and preventable f**kups and at the very end, just when I thought I was done I ran afoul of another one. MF'ers thought a non-keyed crank, and two non-keyed cams was an acceptable design. I used all new hardware, used all their special tools, the cam aligning plate, the phaser aligning dog-bone, the crank stop pin to set cylinder 1 and TDC, the crank locking tool that bites onto the flywheel teeth, all of it. I held the cams with the 21 wrench on the hex. I torqued the bolts by the book. Cam bolts, 18 ft.lbs + 75 degrees. Crank bolt 75 ft lbs, + 90 degrees, plus 15 degrees. Rotated it twice around to install and torque my torque converter nuts, brought it back to TDC and slipped all the cam aligning tools in nice and easy. It was in time.
So I put the little bastard engine back in it's MFing home, hooked it all up, fired it up, and it sat and idled in my bay smooth as glass for 10 minutes. I tried to back it out and it died and wouldn't re-start. Now I have a P0016, Crankshaft position- Camshaft position correlation error, Bank 1 sensor A. The fracking intake cam jumped time.
I am at least the third person I know of that this has happened to. Two of us are Senior Master Techs. I haven't torn mine back apart yet, but in the other two cases the phasers skipped on the cam after everything was tightened.
Golly gee whiz. I bet a MF'ing keywayed f**king camshaft could have prevented that. But you bastards at Corporate were too lazy, cheap, stupid, or all three, to figure that out and do it. "Oh no, friction will hold it together even after it's all soaked in oil".
Ford, you people are idiots, you need to start building the vehicles right again, or stop doing it altogether. I want to talk to your people directly, I want answers about why you are half assing things, and I don't want to hear anything that even gets into the same state of matter as "but my production costs".
dont get me started on this can of worms lol....ok rant time!
Its seems truck (and motorcycle) technology has gone against logic trying to reinvent the wheel.
they made screaming turbo v6's for trucks instead of big v8 or small diesels, and mated to a 10 speed transmission (how long will that last shifting like crazy pulling loads)? Dont those belong in high rpm, high hp lightweight race cars? I thought displacement, low end torque, and minimal shifting was the logical set up for a trucks applications?
Hey maybe they'll next stuff a tractor diesel into the mustang, w/ a cvt tranny... call it a bioecosport?!
whats in the future? An f150 featuring a 1.3l 4 cylinder running 70lbs of boost mated to 37 speed tranny? I'll take my v8 or diesel with a minimal shifting trans thanks.
yamaha, in their R1 sportbike, replaced their high rpm high hp inline 4 with a cross plane crank designed for torque and towing applications in their new gen race replicas.... who applies that to a crotch rocket? wtf do I need torque for? I need high rpm power and minimal crank rotation effects. My old inline four R1 smokes them btw, they have less hp and are heavier than my '05...I dont have crap like ABS, traction control, slipper clutch, detune mode selection...all of which I loathe in new bikes, and shut off if I can (like on Kawi ZX10's)
I think ford and yamaha should trade engineers. Yamaha could stick their torque motors in ford trucks, and the ford guys can stick their high revving screamers into the yamaha race bikes....
Nissan offered their Titan XD 1/2 ton full size truck w/ a diesel (and 13,500lb towing capacity). Awesome platform. Discontinued!...Probably because they made them too well, and would lose their asses not selling parts and repairs. My buddy has one and its bulletproof 100k plus miles so far. Pulls his utv loaded double axle toy hauler no problem. Diesel no longer offered
We should have flying cars by now, instead we have blind spot inidicators, and self parking features to help drivers be even more incompetent and inattentive. Driving has gone from a verb to a noun.
I wish they would come up with an indicator that says "you are travelling very slow in the fast lanes, and causing a traffic jam behind you, please move the **** over, slower traffic keep right, left lane is for passing (one of the 1st dmv rules as well, the basic speed law). Im often stuck behind 6 lanes of mostly prius side by side going 55 in a 65, all blocking any chance of lane changing or passing....why do people love driving perfectly next eachother?
Anyways I feel your pain and share your frustrations. Maybe you can find the right dept to give some asshole an earful, which might be why they finally brought back the ranger.
cheers