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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starsky74" data-source="post: 547229" data-attributes="member: 11415">theres more to the story before my question is asked, i had to go feed myself.i know 4.6s are in sn95s, i said dont shoot because the main story revolves around a new edge car.It did have an aluminum crossover, what it bolts to is plastic with a formed o-ring between. Which is where it blew coolant out at.Ok back to the story...A few months went by and i decided to pick back up work on the stang. The plan was to swap the new PI heads and new intake over and have er runnin. So i pulled one head of the new junkyard mota, and there to my surprise... mud. yes mud, in every cyl. how it got there im not sure. Probably went through RITA. i am from southwest louisiana. anyway, the mud was well past the rings and my 90 day warranty with the junkyard had expired. YAY i decided for a "stock" rebuild , Tore it down bottom end was ok other than normal bearing wear. The bearings were pretty easy to find. New rings...... next to impossible.  they were 80 bucks for a set of 2 cylinders worth.. yeah 320 bucks!!!  well, fast-forward a little while and i had-er rebuilt ready to put back in.  WEEEEELLLL my buddie, who was like my brother, that was helping me....well....we had a misunderstanding between us. ok, between our wives and next thing i know my best friend packed up his tools and his project car that we were building at my house, and hauled ass. ok back to real story, so i put the new motor in and get it all buttoned up and topped of the fluids. cranked er up.....VROOOM! She sounded great!! let her run to make sure everything was working properly. then after approx 5 min...pING PING POW!!!!!!!!!!!!  Something broke, she started missing again. and it was obviously mechanical, pulled pass cam cover off and found a follower popped of! ive seen that before on high miled 4.6s so i reinstalled it thinking the lash adjuster hadnt had enough pressure. cranked again with the cam cover off.. maybe 10 seconds went by when the same follower popped out. NOW IM PISSED OFF! then it got even better! i looked at the valve spring on the lost follower and it was slightly compressed like the valve was bent.  more story, and "the question" to come! i have to go to bed!</blockquote>