Posted by Matt Weltz on August 23, 2007 at 17:35:36 from (167.142.225.157):
I rebuilt a Ford big-block 360 for my aunt in May of this year. It went into her 1974 Ford F100 (4x4, manual). It is her farm truck. The motor was in pretty bad shape and required alot of work. Anyway, ran great until last night. She drove it about 50 miles to work and was on her way home and it started missing and backfiring. We went and picked her up and towed the truck home. Upon inspection, one on the coil wires had come loose and was only connecting part of the time. Started it back up and it ran great for about 5 minutes. Once things started to warm up, the engine started to knock. While watching and listening, noticed that the harmonic balancer was wobbling badly. We checked the bolt and it is still tight on the crankshaft. I am a little stumped. They are not the best at maintaining things and it was below the add mark on the engine oil dipstick. (Not sure how it got that low already) Only thing I can thing is that they got it really hot with too little oil and warped the crankshaft. What do you guys think? I plan on pulling the engine back out tomorrow and would like some other opinions on what to check. Thank you!!!
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