LOCKED UP Ford 351W 5.8L V8 Engine Teardown. How Bad Could It Be?
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Published 2024-03-16
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Here's weekly dose of your catastrophic engine forensics! Every week you can find a new teardown of some abused, misused and/or poorly designed engine. Here are some of my favorites:
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Today's teardown is a 5.8L 351 Windsor from a 1996 Ford F250 with 210K miles. This engine sat on the shelf for 17 years! Im not sure if it was a running engine when the truck was dismantled but it surely isn't now! This one was a real struggle and I didn't feel great about the end result. Sometimes its like that! You never know what these "Core" engines are going to be like until they are on the stand.
Why am I doing this? My name is Eric and I own and run a full service auto salvage business called Importapart. Part of our model includes dismantling blown and bad engines to salvage the good parts to resell. We do not rebuild engines, merely supply parts to those who do.
I really hope you enjoyed this teardown, as always I love all of the comments, feedback and even the criticism. Catch you on the next one!
-Eric
All Comments (21)
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"It was on a shelf for 17 years" What they didn't say was it was the continental shelf.
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Not a single water pump bolt broke!? Buy a lottery ticket immediately!!
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I have a 1986 f150 show truck all original 5200 miles on it. We made those 351's in Windsor Engine Plant 1. The 302 was made in Windsor Engine Plant 2 back in the 80's. We used to pour our own blocks and cranks back then at Windsor Casting Plant. I remember we used to hot test (start) them on chains back then. Also that is the original colour we painted the engines with grey not blue. THANK YOU for sharing this teardown, it brings back a ton of good memories Eric.👍
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Last year, I was in Oklahoma and bought a 1984 F150 4x4 with a locked up 300ci. I trailered it home and rebuilt the motor. It's my daily driver now.
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I was fighting lug nuts on a project car I've been working on. Someone had stripped 3 of the 6 lug nuts on the drivers front wheel. I thought to myself, "What would Eric do?". 20mm deep socket took the other lug nuts off so I went and grabbed a 19mm deep socket and hammered it on the lug nuts....came right off.
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"Dont throw that away! You never know when you'll need that." Said every hoarder ever.
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I am absolutely useless with my hands and couldn't wrench if my life depended on it, but I watch a new video from you every Saturday night. Religiously. Love this content.
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I could see an engine sitting for 17 years in a humid, un-conditioned shop collecting that moisture and water. 17 years of cold damp mornings with water condensing on the block and cylinder walls.
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"That was a mistake. Let's do it again." This is why I love this channel.
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Your pre-teardown soliloquy can be summed up as follows: “take a giant engine, detune it until it barely runs and it will barely run forever”.
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I enjoy the respect you give each engine disassembly, regardless of age or condition.
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I am ready for my Saturday night episode of "Man Vs. Dipstick Tube: The Eternal Struggle."
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That's actually pretty incredible that you got those water pump bolts out
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I think that was a record for the word “penetrator”! Lol!! Great job, Eric! Love the Saturday night tear downs!
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I worked on the line at the Windsor plant for 6 months in 1973(and 6 months prior to that in the foundry) to make money for school. My main job was to put 4 nuts on the rod caps then torque them down 2 at a time.
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Perfect timing! I'm right in the middle of helping a friend rebuild the 351W in his Bronco. If everything continues going according to plan, it should be back together and running better than ever by the end of next week😃
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Remember the quote from Bojack Horsemen at 2:09. "When looking at things through rose colored glasses, red flags just look like flags"
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There is an old retired man from Ford assembly line that made that thing going "Oh!, Damn!"...
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The stuff that came out of the pan looks like somebody fed it Taco Bell.
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After seeing that induction tool work, I went to Amazon and bought one. You haven't lived until you've torn down and rebuilt a marine engine with raw water cooling that was used in salt water. Almost every fastener needed a hot wrench to remove.
