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New or Used? : I Loves My Truck
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Steven Lang
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Published: February 28th, 2014
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Thanks for your recent article about buying auto parts. I recently bought a well used ’95 F-150 with the venerable 302 and Mazda five-speed. When I say well used, I mean the engine has about 253,000 on the clock and sounds like it is on its last legs. I’m pretty sure I can hear the jugs rattling in the cylinders when I first fire it up, the idle hunts all over the place and it has about as much power as the Ukrainian president. I’d like to put a new mill in it. The previous owner spent a lot of time and money doing everything but engine work. Where’s a good place to start looking for a used motor, or should I spill the coin to have this tired old unit rebuilt?Steve Says:
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The first engine I would look at is a Coyote based supercharged 5 litre Miami engine. We use them in our GT Falcon's in Australia. The second engine would be a FPV (Ford Performance Vehicle) 4 litre in line turbo six from a Ford Falcon. Each one of those engines should liven up the old truck. If you want to go diesel, ring someone you would know at Ford and see if you can get hold of one of those 3.2 5 cylinder, Duratorque's that will shoved be into your US Transits.
Check the shift rail plugs. New steel plugs, staked and epoxied, is good insurance. Easy to get to by removing the trans tunnel sheet metal.