Greetings,
I had tried to sell my car a few months ago and there was some debate as to if it truly had the tick or not - I had already replaced the head at 30k miles and most people felt that it was just typical injector/pcv noise.
Long story short - my friendly local Ford dealer agreed to replace the heads at 54K and we just got the old heads off today. We found that the rear most drivers side (#8) valves were loose and recessed into the head. One of the intakes appeared to be on the verge of cracking and one exhaust valve was starting to burn. The tech said that this was from the guides wearing and allowing the valves move around on the seats.
The new heads are much better - 8 thread spark plug holes instead of 4, better machining in the chamber, and it appears that the rear coolant passages have been opened up.
We cleaned up all of the sharp corners and gasket matched the intake runners. May not do much but it was fun!
The blower is now getting "Steig-matized" (got the port with the tune special)
Coolant mod going on.
I am happy it did not sell as I would have felt bad if the new owner had problems.
I am very happy with Ford for stepping up and taking care of me. So far even though this car has been a warranty pig I am happy with it and they have treated me fairly and fixed everything. (do a search, I posted my OASIS when I was selling it)
I truly feel that the car is now as solid as it should have been from the start. It only took 54k miles and a ton of warranty expense for Ford to get it that way (LOL).
Just though someone might find this helpful!
- Paul
I had tried to sell my car a few months ago and there was some debate as to if it truly had the tick or not - I had already replaced the head at 30k miles and most people felt that it was just typical injector/pcv noise.
Long story short - my friendly local Ford dealer agreed to replace the heads at 54K and we just got the old heads off today. We found that the rear most drivers side (#8) valves were loose and recessed into the head. One of the intakes appeared to be on the verge of cracking and one exhaust valve was starting to burn. The tech said that this was from the guides wearing and allowing the valves move around on the seats.
The new heads are much better - 8 thread spark plug holes instead of 4, better machining in the chamber, and it appears that the rear coolant passages have been opened up.
We cleaned up all of the sharp corners and gasket matched the intake runners. May not do much but it was fun!
The blower is now getting "Steig-matized" (got the port with the tune special)
Coolant mod going on.
I am happy it did not sell as I would have felt bad if the new owner had problems.
I am very happy with Ford for stepping up and taking care of me. So far even though this car has been a warranty pig I am happy with it and they have treated me fairly and fixed everything. (do a search, I posted my OASIS when I was selling it)
I truly feel that the car is now as solid as it should have been from the start. It only took 54k miles and a ton of warranty expense for Ford to get it that way (LOL).
Just though someone might find this helpful!
- Paul