The Final Repair Guide to 5.4 Cam Phaser Tick/Knock Sound
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Glad to here the lockouts helped solve your issues, and thank you for helping spread the word! This is a very common issue that will resurface as mentioned. Many report this to us and are at their wits end with these engines before installing our lockouts. Many people claim they are on the 2nd or 3rd go at resolving the issue after replacing all of the timing components and the phasers sometimes twice. Once they have installed our repair kit, the cam phaser malfunction is a thing of the past.
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I would personally find that hard to believe, since one valuable function the VVT system "ALSO" serves is EGR effect.
Livernois' false advertising (Fake News) purports "Once they have installed our repair kit, the cam phaser malfunction is a thing of the past". TWO key misnomers in that single sentence is "_repair kit_" and "malfunction is a thing of the past". It's doesn't 'repair' anything and it makes the _malfunction_ permanent. Plus makes cylinder head temperature run higher, places a greater load on cooling system and permanently removes EGR - increasing exhaust Nox.
Livernois' false advertising (Fake News) purports "Once they have installed our repair kit, the cam phaser malfunction is a thing of the past". TWO key misnomers in that single sentence is "_repair kit_" and "malfunction is a thing of the past". It's doesn't 'repair' anything and it makes the _malfunction_ permanent. Plus makes cylinder head temperature run higher, places a greater load on cooling system and permanently removes EGR - increasing exhaust Nox.
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I would personally find that hard to believe, since one valuable function the VVT system "ALSO" serves is EGR effect.
Livernois' false advertising (Fake News) purports "Once they have installed our repair kit, the cam phaser malfunction is a thing of the past". TWO key misnomers in that single sentence is "_repair kit_" and "malfunction is a thing of the past". It's doesn't 'repair' anything and it makes the _malfunction_ permanent. Plus makes cylinder head temperature run higher, places a greater load on cooling system and permanently removes EGR - increasing exhaust Nox.
Livernois' false advertising (Fake News) purports "Once they have installed our repair kit, the cam phaser malfunction is a thing of the past". TWO key misnomers in that single sentence is "_repair kit_" and "malfunction is a thing of the past". It's doesn't 'repair' anything and it makes the _malfunction_ permanent. Plus makes cylinder head temperature run higher, places a greater load on cooling system and permanently removes EGR - increasing exhaust Nox.
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ok guys, i haven't read all 312 pages of this thread, but here's my situation: 2010 F-150 5.4L v8 with only 60k miles on it. I'm noticing a light ticking/clacking sound when there's a load on the engine, like 1000 rpms going very slowly up a steep slope.
I took it to the dealership and they wanted $1400 to replace the VCT solenoids. Now I'm reading on here and realizing there could be a lot more wrong. My plan is to start off with just doing the solenoid job myself, put it back together and see if the problem goes away before I dive into phasers and tensioners.
Is that a good plan? I'm not sure I could handle doing a phaser/tensioner job myself without any help, and I can't afford the dealership's prices.
I took it to the dealership and they wanted $1400 to replace the VCT solenoids. Now I'm reading on here and realizing there could be a lot more wrong. My plan is to start off with just doing the solenoid job myself, put it back together and see if the problem goes away before I dive into phasers and tensioners.
Is that a good plan? I'm not sure I could handle doing a phaser/tensioner job myself without any help, and I can't afford the dealership's prices.
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ok guys, i haven't read all 312 pages of this thread, but here's my situation: 2010 F-150 5.4L v8 with only 60k miles on it. I'm noticing a light ticking/clacking sound when there's a load on the engine, like 1000 rpms going very slowly up a steep slope.
I took it to the dealership and they wanted $1400 to replace the VCT solenoids. Now I'm reading on here and realizing there could be a lot more wrong. My plan is to start off with just doing the solenoid job myself, put it back together and see if the problem goes away before I dive into phasers and tensioners.
Is that a good plan? I'm not sure I could handle doing a phaser/tensioner job myself without any help, and I can't afford the dealership's prices.
I took it to the dealership and they wanted $1400 to replace the VCT solenoids. Now I'm reading on here and realizing there could be a lot more wrong. My plan is to start off with just doing the solenoid job myself, put it back together and see if the problem goes away before I dive into phasers and tensioners.
Is that a good plan? I'm not sure I could handle doing a phaser/tensioner job myself without any help, and I can't afford the dealership's prices.
Yep, easy to do. Will take you less then 15 minutes. Buy the latest rendition of the solenoids that have the narrow passages.
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I would personally find that hard to believe, since one valuable function the VVT system "ALSO" serves is EGR effect.
Livernois' false advertising (Fake News) purports "Once they have installed our repair kit, the cam phaser malfunction is a thing of the past". TWO key misnomers in that single sentence is "_repair kit_" and "malfunction is a thing of the past". It's doesn't 'repair' anything and it makes the _malfunction_ permanent. Plus makes cylinder head temperature run higher, places a greater load on cooling system and permanently removes EGR - increasing exhaust Nox.
Livernois' false advertising (Fake News) purports "Once they have installed our repair kit, the cam phaser malfunction is a thing of the past". TWO key misnomers in that single sentence is "_repair kit_" and "malfunction is a thing of the past". It's doesn't 'repair' anything and it makes the _malfunction_ permanent. Plus makes cylinder head temperature run higher, places a greater load on cooling system and permanently removes EGR - increasing exhaust Nox.
My repair involved replacing the chains, guides, tensioners, cam bolts, crank gear sprocket and of course the lockouts.
Seeing how many people on this thread have had issue trying to fix this problem without the lockouts, makes me very happy that I installed the lockouts. My brother , with the same truck, had his repaired by Ford under warranty, but guess what ? Trouble came back 2 years after warranty expired.
Last edited by NOTAGT; Jun 16, 2017 at 09:33 AM.
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less than 15 minutes for the VCT solenoids? Don't I have to take the valve covers off? and a lot of stuff to get to them? I mean, I can change my oil in 15 minutes, but that's about it. The dealership told me it would take them 2 days. I'm planning on a full day to do it.
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04-06 you don't have to take the valve covers 07-08 you do have to take them off.