Thread: Tow truck

Originally Posted by Vern

$17.5k for a secondhand motor! Thats rediculous. I would want a brand new crate motor for that.

Includes R&R I think but still means expensive engine.

My armageddon strategy on the 2.7D is a Ford Territory transplant. Seems many of these around $4k with lowish kms.

Anyway, thought these issues were a thing of the past with the ‘new and improved’ 3.0?

Sounds like these are Friday motors as many more seems to go fine.

Personally I wouldn't rebuild one of these 3.0 or 2.7 motors that has had over heating and crank failure issues unless I was not going to keep it.

The reason these secondhand engines are expensive is there is such a demand because there are quite a few crank failures with the 3.0 engine usually after bearing failure, maybe not as many as with the early 2.7 but still not good.

This was the reason when I decided to purchase a secondhand D4 it was a petrol V8, as far as I know there has never been a failure with one of those and even if there was its a common enough Ford Mustang engine that a new replacement wouldn't be that expensive to source.

Another thing when there started appearing a number of remap specialists claiming massive HP and torque increases for the 3.0 not long after it came out I looked at some of the claims and thought given these engines are not extremely robust to start off with why would anyone risk major failures by increasing the stress so much?

I know when my 2.7 was replaced by a workshop under warranty, because of their stuff up, he was able to buy the engine for roughly from memory $5k less than the RRP providing he ordered the engine as a stock part which made it nearly a grand cheaper than if he had ordered it as a replacement part. He was happy to tell me this and what the margins were as I wasn't paying for it and if he ordered it as a stock part then it would be delivered roughly a week later than a replacement part, so he asked me if I minded waiting a bit longer to save him some bucks, which I was happy to do.

Good luck with what ever path you go down but if it was me I would want a new engine if I was going to keep the vehicle.