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01-17-2013, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by engineermike

I know there was a suspected troll that claimed that a sprayed and tuned truck puked the motor, but the owner chimed in and it wasn't true. Is that the one?

Am I the troll you speak of??? I'll hold off on comments until you reply.

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01-17-2013, 02:25 AM

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I know there was a suspected troll that claimed that a sprayed and tuned truck puked the motor, but the owner chimed in and it wasn't true. Is that the one?

Me nor Pete blew our motors, to my knowledge.

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01-17-2013, 06:43 AM

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Am I the troll you speak of??? I'll hold off on comments until you reply.

No. Someone with a low post-count started a thread several weeks ago claiming Pete popped his motor. One about page 3 of the thread, Pete chimed in that his was alive and well.

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01-17-2013, 08:24 AM

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Has there been any EB failures in the taurus or flex? Seems that the trucks are having hell right now. Also, kinda weird that they are all stock. I would think that if there were a weak link somewhere, the tuned trucks would blow up first. LMS has tuned a ton of these trucks and they claim zero failures. So, is the aftermarket tuning actually saving these motors? My truck runs 10x better all around with either SCT or 5* tunes.

I did a google search and found 2 Flex Ecoboost engine failures but doesn't look like it is common. Definately some driveability issues similar to F150s but not as common.

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01-17-2013, 08:50 AM

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No. Someone with a low post-count started a thread several weeks ago claiming Pete popped his motor. One about page 3 of the thread, Pete chimed in that his was alive and well.

If you run across that thread, Let me know.

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01-17-2013, 09:00 AM

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I got rid of it. Turbo Pete and I were discussing his truck and he brought it to my attention, same guy apparently did the same thing on all the ecoboost forums. I banned whoever did it, don't recall the name. He had a personal issue sounds like with Pete or something, I didn't ask.

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01-17-2013, 09:03 AM

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Well poop, I love trolls

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01-17-2013, 05:26 PM

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I know for a fact Ford had stopped production on the Ecoboost F150 motor for re-engineering .
I just got back on the road today after 2 months down time waiting for them to be out of national back order . Don't know what they are doing differently now but I know they did something.

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Last edited by TurboPete; 01-12-2013 at 08:06 AM.

Maybe this is what is causing some confusion?