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Old 01-23-2016, 01:17 PM
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With a jps midplate it's just fine. I'm not worried about easy if I were I would have just slapped a blower on the stock 5.4
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Update....
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Well crap
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Almost done
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how many miles were on that motor?
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160,000 miles
I also found my oil burning issue. The rings in the number 2 cylinder were lined up

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Wow, I just changed my water pump and my 5.4 with 218k looked clean as can be.
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Water pump hole looks like crap because we got ice and snow as soon as I got the engine pulled out.
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While I'm waiting for the machine shop to get done with the engine, I'm gonna have some stuff powder coated, I'll post up pics of that pretty soon. I've got a couple months


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