Wow! That is major, hard to believe that this was triggered from a balancer. Worse thing i ever got from one going bad is a gouged up timing chain cover along with really violent engine vibrations when it failed. I just came from the junkyard about an hour ago and seen an endless number 5.0 rollers (exploders as well) so all isn't lost. At least you don't have major block work done. Just scope around. :thumbsup:
Another bad night... THIS ONE IS WORSE
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freshen it up man its already outBlakonblak94 said:
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Not at all hard to believe. When the balancer goes and has been going it can cause very wierd problems and i see the balancer as possibly being the problem especially if it was spun into the high rpm's.
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not at all just check it out and bolt it on and go. Best thing i found was to check www.car-part.com then call and talk with them and see if you can find a local yard that hasn't pulled the motor yet. If they have then just check everything.
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if the valves are bent ill replace them. that was a thought in the back of my mind.
otherwise ill just see if i cant get an explorer motor and check it over then throw hci on it and pray to the stang gods. just dont wanna do that and then the rings be bad.
otherwise ill just see if i cant get an explorer motor and check it over then throw hci on it and pray to the stang gods. just dont wanna do that and then the rings be bad.
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Buy the Explorer Motor. Take off the oil pan check it out replace the bearings since the pan will be off and run it. Get a FRPP Gasket kit and throw the Heads and intake on it. Pick your self up a TFS 1 cam and run it like a scalded dog.
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That's hardcore, and on a basically stock 5.0L too, very strange. If that happened to me, I'd park my car for a year, buy a fully forged stroker and throw my existing stuff on that. Is your Stang your only car? If so just try and get it running, if not, I'd be VERY tempted to swap a 351w or something into it 
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yea it gets driven everyday so i need it back soon. my gf is being kind enough to drive me when i cant steal the parents car. stay posted so that when i get the motor and pull the main caps i can get a second opinion on bearings. i know decently what is good and bad. as well im sure everyone including myself wants to know what everything else looks like in there ha.
You'll need to do a valve job more then likely. Basically refresh the heads. You'd be wise to just pick up an explorer motor, leave the heads on it, throw a cam in it, new timing chain, change the pan, new oil pump/pickup, and then either adapt the GT40 intake over, or use your original. No point in re-doing e7 heads.
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im not on stock e7's. trickflow topend.
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I found out last year what it looks like, not that thrilling, the DOHC 4v motor I took apart a few years back was A LOT more interesting inside. The internals on a 5.0L look like something from the 70s, probably because they basically areBlakonblak94 said:
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i was refering to the damage rice slayer. lol i know what a rotating assembly looks like. however im curious to see how many mains snapped and where the crank broke and whether my valves were affected by the catastrophie(sp)
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ooo IC. Be sure to drain the oil pan with a sifter, see what kind of metal chunks come out. I'd be curious to see that too.Blakonblak94 said:
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will do. itll be at least monday night before i remove the damaged motor from the car. i was able to pull the lower bearing from the front main with the timing cover off. thats how messed up it is ha. have two good sized chunks of blocks to hold onto when little things go wrong to remind me how bad they could be.
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Damn that sucks bad!
I'm sure it was more interesting because it's A LOT more expensive to repair. You'll find similar 70s looking internals in an LSX but lets not go there.Rice_slayer said:I found out last year what it looks like, not that thrilling, the DOHC 4v motor I took apart a few years back was A LOT more interesting inside. The internals on a 5.0L look like something from the 70s, probably because they basically areBlakonblak94 said:
