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I am just getting started on my truck project. I have a 92 F 150 with 240K. Transmission rebuild at 150k, shifts good but sluggish. Motor swap with a used van engine at 217k. (van engine with truck oil pan = NO DIPSTICK) Pretty bad pinion bearing whine in the rear end. and locked up A/C compressor. Needless to say I have a lot of work to do. My plans are to replace the engine, add shift kit and cooler to transmission, replace rear end bearings and replace A/C compressor. I have around $600 in it so I can put a couple Gs in it and have a pretty nice truck. Now to the questions. I want to use this truck as a weekend dirt, mulch, go to the lumberyard and landfill truck as well as occasionally pull my 2200 lb pop up camper to the mountains for the weekend. I am looking for torque, reliability, and reasonable gas mileage on pump gas. I will be building it myself so will I be happy to go back stock? Push the rebuild as far as I can with the speed density setup? or go nuts and do a mass air swap? There is a Ford graveyard about 2 hours away that has a 96 5.8 roller cam engine that runs but knocks and I can get the engine to rebuild, computer and wiring harness. Or I could just buy a crate motor. Or I work with a guy that has a 5.8 roller engine bottom end that still has the factory hone marks in the cylinder walls I could add some used GT heads to. All opinions welcome.
Sludgefest! another reason I am rebuilding.
Sludgefest! another reason I am rebuilding.
Last edited by oakleysdad; 11-02-2014 at 07:49 PM.
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I would go with the 96 5.8 and rebuild it. I have a 96 with a factory 5.8 and e4od 4x4 ext cab and 180,000 miles. I tow with it regularly, get 15 mpg on the highway at 70 to 80 mph empty, and know with 3.55 gears it would pull a 2200 lbs trailer with absolutely no problems. I pull 5,000 to 6,000 in fairly hilly terrain at 70 mph pretty easily as long as it isn't something with a ton of air drag, like just a car on a trailer vs a pontoon boat or old style camper with absolutely no wind cutting capabilities. Now build it up, and you'd have a pretty fun truck. The maf is so much easier to mod then sd.
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oakleysdad (11-03-2014)
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yes, clean truck. how is the interior, and where is the truck from? Like you said, put a few thousand in it and you have a nice clean good running truck. And no payments!!
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Interior is very clean. I know the original and second owner personally so It is a local truck, and I have every receipt for eveything that was ever done to it since new.
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Kinda the same thing with me. bought the truck from a friend of a friend, and. Im the third owner, and the first owner was the brother of the guy I bought it from. I have every service record, and repair receipt for the truck in a folder. Then my own from repacing parts with lifetime warrant parts hen needed.
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oakleysdad (11-05-2014)
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Finally got it out this weekend. The Cylinder walls and pistons look really good and I found a small plug where I think I can put a dipstick in this block. It looks like I am just going for a hone and rings and bearings in this engine and refurbish the heads and put it back in. Once I get it apart and to the machine shop I will know for sure. After what I found in the top end I was worried about the bottom but it looks like I might have gotten lucky.
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yea, but you can do a few things to help power and still have it just as reliable, might as well since your rebuilding it in my opinion. But, as always a fresh engine period feels stronger anyway, because, well, its not worn lol.