its a ford vulcan good for 250k more miles.
01Taurus 3.0 Vulcan valvetrain @ 238k miles.
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Alright. I'm not loyal to a certain brand. Lately I'm just using Valvoline products due to availability and price.
First one I've owned. First Ford product at that. So far no complaints other than it could use a little more power at times.
yes its underpowered and boring and charging system will give you a hard time.
I haven't had any issues with the charging system.
A 10w30 would work fine in my climate.
Tempting but I couldn't bring myself to run that long on a small sump capacity.
I take it these engines are easy on oil ? What would be a good mileage to do an uoa sample ?
Turns out you were right. I had a second shop take a look and sure enough they are cracked.
M1 FS 0w40 FTW
Unfortunately I'm having to junk the vehicle. However I do have a family member with a 98 with the same engine. May try the M1 on that one next service.
My brother in law sold me a cheap 3.0 Ranger with one of these. It also had the muddy coolant. His had a miss that went away after I replaced plugs. I think he might have done head gaskets on it, not sure
Turned out to have a leak in the elbow by the water pump. But I found it after I replaced the pump, lol.
I have heard some of these have recessed valve seats. Never understood the love for them.
Ironically (???) the 2.3 Ranger I replaced it with suffered a miss due to recessed seats and ended up having cracks in the head between the valves. Grabbed a cheap head from the junkyard and it runs pretty good now at 315k miles. My original head was clean as a pin under the valve cover. Really, a clean valvetrain is obsessed over a bit too much on this forum IMO.
I have an 05 Vulcan with 125,000 miles so its great to hear about your 238,000 miles. Of course you’ll be putting fresh plugs in those heads?
