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3L turbo final round

so i'm making progress. slowly, but surely.

engine bay. i know its filthy. i'll clean it b4 putting the motor back in.

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new 3L is getting cleaned and svt bits are being added.

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the main reason this is going super slow is the fact that i've got like literally no space to do anything. its a small 1car garage.

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i was able to get the crank pulley off with relative ease. the black wheel linking the pulley on the taurus/sable motors are friggn plastic! didnt know that. thanx to jeff and the great threads here in the 3l forum. thorough searching is indeed ur friend:).

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i was fortunate actually. i couldve ruined this thing again. i took off the cam covers and cams on one head b4 i removed the pulley. and so the chain was free-spinning. i dont believe i hurt anything tho. the chains, sprockets etc are coming out anyway.
 
Coming along, i think I see my hand print on the wall! Yes make no mistake about it, you have very little space. Thats okay it cozy at about 100*+. :laugh:
 
TourEnvy said:
Coming along, i think I see my hand print on the wall! Yes make no mistake about it, you have very little space. Thats okay it cozy at about 100*+. :laugh:
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lol. yeah. that garage is tore up. okay. so in my readings, i somehow missed the fact that the svt mount on the pass side by the power steering reservoir will not fit on the sable/taurus heads without modification. i see what kaos did on a past thread. he basically shaved it down to size:laugh:. i wont do that. so does anyone have a cougar mount handy?i was told only the 2001 will fit. in the meantime, i'll head to the junkyard to see if there's any.
 
Your mount should already be good to go unless Joey had the heads off of the blown 3L when he installed the mount. Don't know why the heads would have been pulled so I'd assume your current mount will work.
 
Reebs said:
Your mount should already be good to go unless Joey had the heads off of the blown 3L when he installed the mount. Don't know why the heads would have been pulled so I'd assume your current mount will work.
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i dunno jeff. the problem is that after removing the bolts, i cant remove the mount through the heads. i've pulled up and down and back. its too tight. the only way to get it out is to pull the heads on the old one, right?
 
Im not sure, but because the blown engine is a Escape isnt that the same as the contour and the mount never needed to be replaced like the Taurus one?
 
If you're reinstalling your old injectors, you should replace the one that was squirting into the cylinder that failed. As Brapple mentioned, it looks like that cylinder went lean & melted the piston. The is that you don't know if there was a problem BEFORE the piston melted,, (like excessive blowby from high boost), which pressurized the crankcase & popped off your PCV tube, which caused the lean condition that melted your pison... OR, if there was an initial lean condition, (say from a bad injector), that led to the melted piston, which allowed enough blowby to pressurize the crankcase & blow off your PCV nipple, which would then, exacerbate your lean issue. IMO, the latter is more likely... but either way, I'd replace that injector.
 
I think you may be confusing is old 2.5 failure with the new 3.0 failure. This will be his second 3.0 and the last went due to rod knock not piston failure.
 
My bad... just read it again. :blackeye:

BAD_SVT - sorry if you already mentioned it, but are going to tear the old engine apart to look for the failure?
 
SicSE said:
My bad... just read it again. :blackeye:

BAD_SVT - sorry if you already mentioned it, but are going to tear the old engine apart to look for the failure?
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its cool. i was planning on it initially. but i just drained the oil and found less than desired amount in it. i dunno if that was it for sure, but i might end up tearing it apart anyway. i've gotta pull the heads off of the broken 3L just to get to the breather box. unless of course theres another way...
 
Might as well use the motor mount too. Dont get stuck on trimming it, either the current one or cougar mount will have to be altered fit in between the new heads. There is no reason to take off the new heads in your case, right?
 
TourEnvy said:
Might as well use the motor mount too. Dont get stuck on trimming it, either the current one or cougar mount will have to be altered fit in between the new heads. There is no reason to take off the new heads in your case, right?
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no. i decided against pulling the heads off of the new one. stock rods and bearings it is!!! if they give out on me, its farewell. i'll sell the car and get an S60R or M5 or last generation 7series. luv that car:drool:. the thread title says it all. it will be the final round.
 
the 04-05 PCV system should help with your pcv issues some..... i'm pretty sure that's why livinSVT went with a newer style PCV system.
 
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