I cannot seem to get any good photos of the oil in the pan. Ill try. I am by no means an engine rebuilder. I know that small glitter in the oil is sometimes understandable or ok. But small flakes of metal in the oil are not ok. I ran a magnet through the tailings of metal in the oil and some of it sticks to the metal some other stays in the pan.

I woke up and said F u truck and got to work like any other project. 2 hours later Engine was bolted on the stand and I was ready to order a crate engine this time.

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One interesting thing. There is one good hot spot on the flywheel and pressure plate, I am going to reach out to ACT and see what they say There was no hot spot on the factory stuff.

Ordering a few things and looking for a little more information. If I can get a motor, I should be able to get it installed in an evening with a little bit of help with the front clip.

I am going to flip it over in a little bit and pull the pan and see what the heck happened.

Screw you Coyote engine....screw you.

Sean

Something to keep in mind.......when your crate motor shopping. The new ones (I assume picked from fords supply for the 15 and up stang)have some differences in the oil filter adapter area. I would spend a little time clarifying this but I have one from a 15 and the frpp oil filter relocation adapter does not work as its intended for the earlier coyote. Hopefully I can prevent an unexpected headache for you. I respect your perseverance. Keep up the good work.

I'll see you in California...

Good luck, Sean!

Given the speed with which you operate, I assume the pan is long off and you've found the issue...

Please update when you can. I'm still hoping for something simple...

That was some of the best advice I have gotten on the oil filter adapter area. Thank you for the advice.

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Thank you....pretty sure I need it.

Well it definately is not something simple. Pan has been off though, lots more metal in it.

Unfortunately this motor is shot. It is believed that it was something that happened during the accident. I pulled the pan, there are big flakes of bearings in it. Like the size of a q tip.

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The engine has excessive end play with an audible clunk when moving it back and forth in the engine. You can feel it with your hands when moving it back and forth.

New Service engine has been ordered from Ford. This will be cam covers to pan, will require my intake, accessories and other stuff but I am just fine with that. Comes with a 3 year warranty.

Motor should be here Wednesday, hope to have it in the truck and ironing out the final details this weekend and putting some miles on it if all goes well.

Cross your fingers, its going to be a whirlwind couple of weeks I think =)

Got home and got almost all of the accessories off the engine just to make sure I was not missing anything to get it put back together. Only need to pull the alternator off tomorrow.

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Sean

My very first engine upgrade project as a teenager was a 4 bolt main 350 I traded for out of a recently wrecked 2nd Gen Camaro that I put in my 1978 Monte Carlo. It spun a rod bearing about 3 weeks later...

I'm pretty sure some damage happened to it during it's accident as well.

Sorry for your luck but it looks like you have a good plan in place.

You are one motivated dude! I'm pretty sure that I'm speaking for the crowd when I say that if you show up at Thunderhill, your beer will be free, regardless of how much you require. If you do not require beer, it will undoubtedly be consumed in your honor.

On a related note, I've always had my best luck with used engines--it's been the opposite with machine shops. Here's hoping the crate version does the trick.

I have never had this bad of luck on an engine to be honest and I have bought a ton of engines. It just so happens that its likely the most spendy of them all. Sometimes that is how the cookie crumbles.

Oh I have no intentions of not making it there. Pretty much plan on hell or highwater Ill be driving that direction next Friday morning.

I have had my very best luck with used factory engines and never had much luck with rebuilds. I am hoping that the factory engine does me well.

Ill drink your beer my friend!!!! Looking forward to meeting lots of new faces by the way.

Oh man....hope that big girl shows up tomorrow.

Got my pre oiler built so I can put all of my oil in through the block and get the new motor nicely oiled up before start up. I popped off a cam cover and rotated the crank over while putting the lube in and sure enough, I had lots of oil coming up onto the cam while rotating it over. Should work sweet on the new engine too.

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Now you guys might be laughing but for like $12.00 it works really well. The end of the sprayer is 1/4" so a 1/4" brass coupler and a piece of 1/4" brass pipe and it bolted right where the oil pressure sender was located.

With that done, I had a few things on the interior that were bugging the crap out of me. The dash was still not bolted in so I got that cleaned up and bolted in, its not picture worthy but its in there and I can get a few things buttoned up. Little bit at a time right.

Sorry for the finger in the picture..

These were bugging the crap out of me. They looked terrible on the newly upholstered seats.

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Got my upholstery skills out and got to work on them.

Its all about the little things right??

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Looks so much better in my opinion.

Now, do I paint the seat brackets? Wrap them in Vinyl? I have no clue. I need to try and get some carpet dye or something, the copper color is terrible.

Thanks for following along and all of the words of encouragement fellas.

Sean

I just went through the whole build and you did an awesome job on this truck. Sorry about the engine issues, but I love your perseverance.

Did you figure out your vibration issues?