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I swear this BII is the gift that keeps giving (to the parts houses I deal with)
Ok. First and foremost? Changed out the heavier oil for 5w40 due to the extreme cold snap we are getting. It seems to like it in general.
At start up? The usual valve train "I don't wanna work it's damn cold out" noise. Oil pressure gauge on the dash kicks to mid range instantly. But I've also got a suntune gauge installed in a "T" fitting to monitor it closer. Takes a few short moments, but it kicks to about 60ish.
Driving to locations and such? Engine fully warmed up, and it seems to maintain about 40ish or so on the gauge. (gotta love ford and that dummy gauge...thank god for aftermarket LOL)
In town? Manages about 20-30lbs. Nothing to write home about, but it's enough for slow speed.
Now here's the fun part. After driving for a while, and things are fully up to temp? Still hangs around 25ish in town, and 40ish or so on highway...But come to a stop? And she tanks out to about (as a guess) about 10lbs...and if I stop just right? The gauge on the dash nosedives, recovers, nosedives, and shoots back up to midrange. The physical gauge holds about 5-10 lbs, it's hard to tell due to it being slightly delayed. But it stays above the "HOLY CRAP" "0" mark...And the engine is quiet, no noises or anything to suggest a major pantloading moment is about to happen. It just seems like it, when it comes to a dead stop (not all the time mind you, just started a couple of times today) it drops the idle to low, almost to the point of stalling out the engine. Due to the dash tach being stuck at 4grand? No way I can really tell what RPM the engine bottoms to, unless I blow more $$ on an aftermarket tach. It starts acting 'normal' when the engine's RPM @ idle kick up a notch. (the truck kicks it up on it's own)
I've got no choice at this time but to drive it over the road, it seems to be fairly strong...yeah it's got the off the line chuggle/bogging down issue. (still feel it's fuel related) And that annoying metalic sound..(which a few techs I talked to in the afternoon? Stated frankly it'll have to wait until it gets worse so they can reproduce it on a lift to pinpoint it)
So this is interesting to say the least. I'm at the point of considering picking up a spare 2.9 and getting it prepped. At the current time I'm not doing any hard accels off the line, just babying it off the stop lights/stop signs. It's extremely quiet, and I'm not going to tempt fate LOL. Heck, my old fury with a 318 had almost zero pressure off the mark...kept flashing the oil light at me at idle. (put an aftermarket gauge tied into that one as well.) So I'm fairly sure it's not going to blow apart on me, unless I abuse it.
Well..just call this a mini-rant. So far I've got an extremely clean engine (and this stinker is damn clean from a road slime point of view) Which acts like it's getting a bit of fuel starvation...(gonna try replacement of the fuel filter again in the next few days, just in case crud from the tank is choking it off)...And that annoying metal like "crumpling" sound..that could be anything from a crap driveshaft CV joint (GKN style drive shaft), torque converter with a busted one way clutch, heck...could be any number of things. Put it on stands and drive it from "0" to "40" on the speedo? Accels nice and quiet, zero noise until it's put under load.
I'm starting to think this truck is possessed.
S-
Ok. First and foremost? Changed out the heavier oil for 5w40 due to the extreme cold snap we are getting. It seems to like it in general.
At start up? The usual valve train "I don't wanna work it's damn cold out" noise. Oil pressure gauge on the dash kicks to mid range instantly. But I've also got a suntune gauge installed in a "T" fitting to monitor it closer. Takes a few short moments, but it kicks to about 60ish.
Driving to locations and such? Engine fully warmed up, and it seems to maintain about 40ish or so on the gauge. (gotta love ford and that dummy gauge...thank god for aftermarket LOL)
In town? Manages about 20-30lbs. Nothing to write home about, but it's enough for slow speed.
Now here's the fun part. After driving for a while, and things are fully up to temp? Still hangs around 25ish in town, and 40ish or so on highway...But come to a stop? And she tanks out to about (as a guess) about 10lbs...and if I stop just right? The gauge on the dash nosedives, recovers, nosedives, and shoots back up to midrange. The physical gauge holds about 5-10 lbs, it's hard to tell due to it being slightly delayed. But it stays above the "HOLY CRAP" "0" mark...And the engine is quiet, no noises or anything to suggest a major pantloading moment is about to happen. It just seems like it, when it comes to a dead stop (not all the time mind you, just started a couple of times today) it drops the idle to low, almost to the point of stalling out the engine. Due to the dash tach being stuck at 4grand? No way I can really tell what RPM the engine bottoms to, unless I blow more $$ on an aftermarket tach. It starts acting 'normal' when the engine's RPM @ idle kick up a notch. (the truck kicks it up on it's own)
I've got no choice at this time but to drive it over the road, it seems to be fairly strong...yeah it's got the off the line chuggle/bogging down issue. (still feel it's fuel related) And that annoying metalic sound..(which a few techs I talked to in the afternoon? Stated frankly it'll have to wait until it gets worse so they can reproduce it on a lift to pinpoint it)
So this is interesting to say the least. I'm at the point of considering picking up a spare 2.9 and getting it prepped. At the current time I'm not doing any hard accels off the line, just babying it off the stop lights/stop signs. It's extremely quiet, and I'm not going to tempt fate LOL. Heck, my old fury with a 318 had almost zero pressure off the mark...kept flashing the oil light at me at idle. (put an aftermarket gauge tied into that one as well.) So I'm fairly sure it's not going to blow apart on me, unless I abuse it.
Well..just call this a mini-rant. So far I've got an extremely clean engine (and this stinker is damn clean from a road slime point of view) Which acts like it's getting a bit of fuel starvation...(gonna try replacement of the fuel filter again in the next few days, just in case crud from the tank is choking it off)...And that annoying metal like "crumpling" sound..that could be anything from a crap driveshaft CV joint (GKN style drive shaft), torque converter with a busted one way clutch, heck...could be any number of things. Put it on stands and drive it from "0" to "40" on the speedo? Accels nice and quiet, zero noise until it's put under load.
I'm starting to think this truck is possessed.
S-
