Originally Posted By: sicko
Originally Posted By: qdeezie
My F150 was worse than that when I bought it. Wish I had pictures to show.
The same F150 in your signature? What did you do to clean it up, and how's it running now?
Yep.
I removed the intake, valve covers, timing cover and oil pan and scraped out as much crud (via screwdriver, hook, pick and shop vac) as I could. It filled a 5 gallon bucket and then some.
Once I put it back together and got it running, small particles would fall down and partially block the oil pump pickup. The oil pressure gauge consistently rocked back and forth.
So, I went and bought about 2 gallons of diesel fuel, drained the motor oil, poured the diesel fuel in, drained it and filtered it through a paint strainer probably about 20 times until it came out clear and without particles. I did not start it up with the diesel fuel in it. It was just used as a carrier to remove the particles and I found it to be an excellent carrier.
After that, I filled it up with oil, started it and it ran fine and I got about two years out of it, which was enough time to complete the build of other engine I had on the engine stand to swap it over into it.
It had a startup rattle, but filters with a silicone ADBV eliminated that.
I bought the truck for $625 with intentions from day 1 to put another engine in it (and really had nothing to lose with what I did), so the two years I got out of the old engine was a bonus.