I will never buy another Ford as long as I live. My wife's Ford explorer blew a head gasket this week. A mechanic shop quoted me $2,800.00 to do the work. So I decided to do the job myself. Now I know why they wanted so much. I pulled the heads to take them to the machine shop. Well the machinist informs me that the cam timing can not be set the way we always use to do it, and pointed out that there are no timing marks. So I had to pull the whole engine so he can use a degree wheel on it to set the timing for these over head cams heads. What ever happened to pulling the heads and getting them milled, then bolting them back on like the old days. It use to take an hour per side to get them off and close to the same to put them back once you got them back from the machinist. It took me a full day to get both heads off to find out I had to pull the block too,another full days work. I hate this stupid truck. The design is so over complicated that it is infuriating. I hope to meet the guys who designed this thing so I can find out first hand how a retard gets to be an engineer for Ford motors.
