BOSS's Budget Engine Over Haul 5.8L
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Not sure why that is, works if you download it.
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right below the video " Download original movie file" :beer
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Road test update
Amazing, pulls strong, sounds good - a bit loud for my taste. What I find interesting is I haven't moved the distributor since I dropped it in, what ever that timing is, its pretty much dead on. I'm not a big fan of timing lights anyways, as every engine has its own sweet spot - maybe once you find it you can reference it with a light. Anyways I find folks spend way too much time trying to get an engine to run right with a timing light, manual says it should be ????? but it runs like crap, and than they'll frig with something else.
I changed the oil last night, was a little gray but nothing to be concerned about for the first run and break in. I'll change it next week for one more time to compare.
The exhaust must have settled with the heat running through it and now the tail pipe is banging off of the tank skid plate, drives me crazy! So I'll be fixing that real soon.
I had a lean code for both banks, but I forgot to swap out the 5.0 mass air sensor in my excitement to start it, so I changed that last night and thus far no codes.
I also had to change the left valve cover as the one I was using must have came off of a Speed Density engine and had the breather tube in the wrong direction making it had to hook up the hose off of the mass air - may be what gave me the lean code as well. Anyways thats done.
I also installed a bracket for the coil to support it better, that bar that goes up from an exhaust stud, I rebent the old and added a stud in place of the header bolt and that worked well.
So far so good.
Amazing, pulls strong, sounds good - a bit loud for my taste. What I find interesting is I haven't moved the distributor since I dropped it in, what ever that timing is, its pretty much dead on. I'm not a big fan of timing lights anyways, as every engine has its own sweet spot - maybe once you find it you can reference it with a light. Anyways I find folks spend way too much time trying to get an engine to run right with a timing light, manual says it should be ????? but it runs like crap, and than they'll frig with something else.
I changed the oil last night, was a little gray but nothing to be concerned about for the first run and break in. I'll change it next week for one more time to compare.
The exhaust must have settled with the heat running through it and now the tail pipe is banging off of the tank skid plate, drives me crazy! So I'll be fixing that real soon.
I had a lean code for both banks, but I forgot to swap out the 5.0 mass air sensor in my excitement to start it, so I changed that last night and thus far no codes.
I also had to change the left valve cover as the one I was using must have came off of a Speed Density engine and had the breather tube in the wrong direction making it had to hook up the hose off of the mass air - may be what gave me the lean code as well. Anyways thats done.
I also installed a bracket for the coil to support it better, that bar that goes up from an exhaust stud, I rebent the old and added a stud in place of the header bolt and that worked well.
So far so good.
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Thinking Quarterhorse but debating if its worth doing, looks like 19Lb injectors are good for a whole lot of horsepower..... I need to research more before i decide to change them.
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Update
So the engine is still working fine, the only thing that ever happen was the belt coming off bending the fan, pump and cracking the timing chain cover. The transmission had been slipping some on hard acceleration, so last night I decided to change the fluid for the hell of it. To my surprise the pan was clean, the oil was old and in need of a change for sure though. I also drained the oil from the converter as there is a little drain plug for it, I installed a new filter but didn't bother using the new gasket that came with it. It looked to me that the old ford gasket with the steel insert was still a better gasket than this rubber only one - so I reused my old ford gasket and its working fine, no leaks. 15L of fluid later and the bronco was moving again, shifts were smoother and firmer, and I didn't feel any slipping this time.
That is not to say a rebuild isn't in my future, just bought some time I figure.
The other problem I have and I'm most certain its my IAC, though I've tested it and for all accounts seems to be working as it should. After the bronco has been running for a while, when i go to restart it, it surges and dies, have to feather the throttle to keep it running, doing this for 30 seconds and its idling just fine again. So I'm thinking maybe the IAC is sticking some, though I had it off and cleaned it and the plunger moved with no effort. So I have some doubt that it is indeed the IAC and not wanting to piss 100.00 bucks away on something that may make no difference I need to do a little more digging. Worse thing is I should have a couple spares but I either gave them a way or chucked them out.
So the engine is still working fine, the only thing that ever happen was the belt coming off bending the fan, pump and cracking the timing chain cover. The transmission had been slipping some on hard acceleration, so last night I decided to change the fluid for the hell of it. To my surprise the pan was clean, the oil was old and in need of a change for sure though. I also drained the oil from the converter as there is a little drain plug for it, I installed a new filter but didn't bother using the new gasket that came with it. It looked to me that the old ford gasket with the steel insert was still a better gasket than this rubber only one - so I reused my old ford gasket and its working fine, no leaks. 15L of fluid later and the bronco was moving again, shifts were smoother and firmer, and I didn't feel any slipping this time.
That is not to say a rebuild isn't in my future, just bought some time I figure.
The other problem I have and I'm most certain its my IAC, though I've tested it and for all accounts seems to be working as it should. After the bronco has been running for a while, when i go to restart it, it surges and dies, have to feather the throttle to keep it running, doing this for 30 seconds and its idling just fine again. So I'm thinking maybe the IAC is sticking some, though I had it off and cleaned it and the plunger moved with no effort. So I have some doubt that it is indeed the IAC and not wanting to piss 100.00 bucks away on something that may make no difference I need to do a little more digging. Worse thing is I should have a couple spares but I either gave them a way or chucked them out.
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I made the bracket, pulling from the intake seems to be a common way to do it.
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