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suprised i didnt blow it up
we here in ny snows coming down and the truck grim reapers are out. so i decided to put my "beater" truck on the road. 99 ranger. 4.0 motor is out of my 99 blue truck dd. i swapped the blue one to a SOHC. well i got it on the road 2 weeks ago. its been great. smooth shifts good. couple days ago the oil pressure gauge was acting funky.... bouncing all around and the "check" gauge light would come on.. checked oil dip stick looked good. figured faulty sender. my ole mans explorer did this with the sender . so i ran it a couple days like this no biggie.. well its getting down to the teens and 20s at night first start up i hear a wicked loud knock... notorious lifter tick..
no big deal. been there done that. once it warms up it went way so i figured a dirty lifter. motor had 1k on its oil change since i took it of my blue one.. full syn so i didn't bother to change it when i swapped it to this truck. so i put it up on jack stand. drain filter, and oil......... ummm yea maybe a quart of oil if that.. 8 oz was seafoam..
WHERE DID IT ALL GO!
no leaks, and exhaust doesnt smell oily... valve stem seals are NEW heads are new, intake gaskets are new. fresh oil.. no tick.... and gauge isnt faulty... haha it was doing what it was intended to do.. now the needle is under the little nub.. it did this once 2 years ago when i originally put the new heads on. valve stem seals were all floated i canged them all out with the felpro ones and haven't had a problem yet. i must say i was impressed.. i beat it around for 4-5 days.. i got lucky..
we here in ny snows coming down and the truck grim reapers are out. so i decided to put my "beater" truck on the road. 99 ranger. 4.0 motor is out of my 99 blue truck dd. i swapped the blue one to a SOHC. well i got it on the road 2 weeks ago. its been great. smooth shifts good. couple days ago the oil pressure gauge was acting funky.... bouncing all around and the "check" gauge light would come on.. checked oil dip stick looked good. figured faulty sender. my ole mans explorer did this with the sender . so i ran it a couple days like this no biggie.. well its getting down to the teens and 20s at night first start up i hear a wicked loud knock... notorious lifter tick..
no big deal. been there done that. once it warms up it went way so i figured a dirty lifter. motor had 1k on its oil change since i took it of my blue one.. full syn so i didn't bother to change it when i swapped it to this truck. so i put it up on jack stand. drain filter, and oil......... ummm yea maybe a quart of oil if that.. 8 oz was seafoam.. WHERE DID IT ALL GO! no leaks, and exhaust doesnt smell oily... valve stem seals are NEW heads are new, intake gaskets are new. fresh oil.. no tick.... and gauge isnt faulty... haha it was doing what it was intended to do.. now the needle is under the little nub.. it did this once 2 years ago when i originally put the new heads on. valve stem seals were all floated i canged them all out with the felpro ones and haven't had a problem yet. i must say i was impressed.. i beat it around for 4-5 days.. i got lucky..
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