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As usual, I forgot to wash the engine before diving in. But it's fairly clean, other than what the s...

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Maybe it's not quite as clean as I thought.

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Well, THERE'S your problem! The #1 intake pushrod is off its rocker, and several of the others are s...

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I had noticed last year that someone put these cheap rubber bore plugs in, and I had already bought ...

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I put a little blue Hylomar on the new [url=https://...

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After a bath in the solvent tank, I dried & sandblasted the head before painting its exterior surfac...

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I'd never have guessed 4 combustion chambers were cracked through the exhaust valve seats from the w...

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The old t'stat seems to have been working, so I'm reusing it. It's not difficult or expensive to swa...

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The original lower radiator hose was made on 12/21/94 and is still serviceable. It had swollen by ab...

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These were solvent-washed, sandblasted, & painted Aluminum Cast Coat. The paint will be removed wher...

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OE 1995 4.9L TPS made by CTS. The date code is 5A09A, which I read as 1995 January 9th, 1st shift. L...

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This seems to be common to the high-mileage 4.9Ls I've owned & worked on.

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The valve cover got solvent-washed, sandblasted, & painted. The injector rail got steel-wooled and c...

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After checking a few local junkyards for a rebuildable head, and not finding any, I decided to just ...

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I found a NOS Ford head gasket, which is made by Fel-Pro.

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After washing it with brake cleaner, and torch-drying it, I painted the head with DupliColor Engine ...

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4.9L Cylinder Head Bolt Tightening Sequence

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After oiling the bolt threads & heads, I ran them in with my small electric impact, in-sequence. The...

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This modern graphite combination gasket is the only ...

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After washing & sandblasting, I had a machinist weld the tab back onto the intake, then plane it & t...

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The exhaust manifolds were also sandblasted, painted (with ultra-high-temperature paint), & planed. ...

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All the parts that were off (including new ones) were cleaned & painted before installation. The fue...

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I should have bought a commercial lift bar years ago, but this conglomeration of scrap metal, parts,...

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With the engine & transmission lifted a few inches, the 4.9L's pan can barely come out (assuming the...

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This replacement oil pan gasket was in bad shape, not installed well (possibly re-used), leaking, an...

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My worry was that the oil pump was shot, but it had some resistance when installed, and had good flo...

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After checking the block passages with shop air, the only thing left to restrict oil flow was the fi...

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I was surprised at how much sediment was in the pan, but I guess that shows 1) how well MarvelMyster...

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It's running rough (probably because of the old gas, and some sludge still in the lifters), but it s...

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I had noticed some grinding when I first started the engine, but it went away too quickly to identif...