2025, which engine?
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I own a 2018 with the 5.0 which I bought in 2020 and decided on the 5.0 because of less moving parts and the turbo lag. I tow and haul a truck camper so I wanted a motor with the power to haul it all. Good luck with your purchase. BTW, I've had no issues with mine at all.
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To combat supposed salt spray intake (explain how this makes it past the filter) you put a worse filtering media in (that explains it). Not sure how turbo's would survive compressing salt without destroying themselves, but what do I know.
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Funny how when trying to get your Fords serviced, many feel that the tech's are not the brightest bulbs, except if they tell you something you want to agree with.
These turbo's are not from the 90's.
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The kind of treatment that netted the guy almost 400,000 miles on a 2.7?
Search it out on the other forum.
I just get a kick out of the turbo fear.
The guys right. It ain’t 1979.
Most hear fear the dealers in the worst way, but gobble up engine info from the very folks we hope never see or touch our tucks.
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[QUOTE=wkohn;7828389. It needs to be cooled down after every run.[/QUOTE]
Another good one.
Haven’t heard about the liquid cooled exhaust manifolds on the 2.7??
Once again, it’s not 1979.
Another good one.
Haven’t heard about the liquid cooled exhaust manifolds on the 2.7??
Once again, it’s not 1979.
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Modern turbo engines don't need special treatment. Synthetic oil is better, not "always" required. Being cooled down after every run is from the distant past of oil cooled turbos, it was required after hard runs because the oil could coke in a hot turbo. Modern water cooled turbos do not need this and cooling down (for example) a 2.7 Ecoboost would be no different than cooling down a 5.0 Coyote.. *** has nothing to do with turbos. Turbos are not expensive. Most Ford techs are ignorant.
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The exhaust manifolds are a primary fatigue failure point due to thermal cycling between the aluminum cylinder head and the cast iron manifold (or in this case, the manifold is integral to the aluminum head and bolts up to the iron turbo housing). Developing cracking in the manifolds is common across many engine families.
Ford’s bright idea to run coolant through the manifolds – done for the sake of faster warm up for cold start emissions, not turbo protection – means that when those cracks form the symptom isn’t the harmless ticking that you get on any other engine but instead a coolant leak into the exhaust stream where it will shortly poison the cats and O2 sensors.
The cherry on the top of this idiotic design is that what ought to be a wear item that’s a couple hundred bucks and can be swapped out in an afternoon is a complete head replacement at near $4,000 for the part and 25 book hours to put it in.
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I wish I hadn’t heard about these.
The exhaust manifolds are a primary fatigue failure point due to thermal cycling between the aluminum cylinder head and the cast iron manifold (or in this case, the manifold is integral to the aluminum head and bolts up to the iron turbo housing). Developing cracking in the manifolds is common across many engine families.
Ford’s bright idea to run coolant through the manifolds – done for the sake of faster warm up for cold start emissions, not turbo protection – means that when those cracks form the symptom isn’t the harmless ticking that you get on any other engine but instead a coolant leak into the exhaust stream where it will shortly poison the cats and O2 sensors.
The cherry on the top of this idiotic design is that what ought to be a wear item that’s a couple hundred bucks and can be swapped out in an afternoon is a complete head replacement at near $4,000 for the part and 25 book hours to put it in.
The exhaust manifolds are a primary fatigue failure point due to thermal cycling between the aluminum cylinder head and the cast iron manifold (or in this case, the manifold is integral to the aluminum head and bolts up to the iron turbo housing). Developing cracking in the manifolds is common across many engine families.
Ford’s bright idea to run coolant through the manifolds – done for the sake of faster warm up for cold start emissions, not turbo protection – means that when those cracks form the symptom isn’t the harmless ticking that you get on any other engine but instead a coolant leak into the exhaust stream where it will shortly poison the cats and O2 sensors.
The cherry on the top of this idiotic design is that what ought to be a wear item that’s a couple hundred bucks and can be swapped out in an afternoon is a complete head replacement at near $4,000 for the part and 25 book hours to put it in.
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Just...wrong on all counts, well except for synthetic oil, which is really want should be put in any motor.
Funny how when trying to get your Fords serviced, many feel that the tech's are not the brightest bulbs, except if they tell you something you want to agree with.
These turbo's are not from the 90's.
Funny how when trying to get your Fords serviced, many feel that the tech's are not the brightest bulbs, except if they tell you something you want to agree with.
These turbo's are not from the 90's.
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I wish I hadn’t heard about these.
The exhaust manifolds are a primary fatigue failure point due to thermal cycling between the aluminum cylinder head and the cast iron manifold (or in this case, the manifold is integral to the aluminum head and bolts up to the iron turbo housing). Developing cracking in the manifolds is common across many engine families.
Ford’s bright idea to run coolant through the manifolds – done for the sake of faster warm up for cold start emissions, not turbo protection – means that when those cracks form the symptom isn’t the harmless ticking that you get on any other engine but instead a coolant leak into the exhaust stream where it will shortly poison the cats and O2 sensors.
The cherry on the top of this idiotic design is that what ought to be a wear item that’s a couple hundred bucks and can be swapped out in an afternoon is a complete head replacement at near $4,000 for the part and 25 book hours to put it in.
The exhaust manifolds are a primary fatigue failure point due to thermal cycling between the aluminum cylinder head and the cast iron manifold (or in this case, the manifold is integral to the aluminum head and bolts up to the iron turbo housing). Developing cracking in the manifolds is common across many engine families.
Ford’s bright idea to run coolant through the manifolds – done for the sake of faster warm up for cold start emissions, not turbo protection – means that when those cracks form the symptom isn’t the harmless ticking that you get on any other engine but instead a coolant leak into the exhaust stream where it will shortly poison the cats and O2 sensors.
The cherry on the top of this idiotic design is that what ought to be a wear item that’s a couple hundred bucks and can be swapped out in an afternoon is a complete head replacement at near $4,000 for the part and 25 book hours to put it in.
Exhaust manifold cracking is not common on the 2.7. Never been an issue.
Thats like me saying the 5.0 is problematic because the 5.4 3v had a few big issues.