Ford 460 engine questions/issues
Hey everyone, new to the forums and new to RV ownership. (Owned about 2 months now). Firstly, HI! nice to join a community of like minded travelers! I own a 26 foot 1988 ford gulfstream rv. Ok ...
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Oh for sure, I am DEFINITELY not expecting this to get the engine to run like new. Haha more to hopefully just give me a couple mpg bump from the 4mpg I was getting, and give it back a lot of its power and oil pressure. Still will likely need to look at replacing the camshaft down the road at some point among other things, but I dont have to lift the motor for that like I do all this, so it could be more easily attained while traveling and after working to re-imbursing myself for the cost I am already into it. (This RV is my home currently and is working up to be a cross country rig for a couple years or so, just wasnt expecting THIS major of work.)
The transmission still shifts and such super smooth, no problems at all there and its getting full fluid change from being removed and drain bolt removed, so I am not too worried about that.
In the end I will basically give it a full rebuild, but can't all at once out of necessity from a time/budget stance.
This will rebuild basically the entire lower end of the engine at least and between new oil pump, starter, timing chain, crankshaft, bearings, and a handfull of sensors as well as all 8 spark plugs, finished with a full fluids change including lucas additives I feel like I will see a pretty substantial Improvement to the terrible performance it had beforehand.
It has also given me an opportunity to really inspect most of the rest of the components pretty well, and gives me much more confidence and all of my vacuum lines and hoses and such.
I am really on the edge of my seat to see what kind of improvement in performance and oil pressure I will see from this first major work set.
I appreciate any input or advice in this journey, and thank you for the understanding in my budget / time limitations. :)
The transmission still shifts and such super smooth, no problems at all there and its getting full fluid change from being removed and drain bolt removed, so I am not too worried about that.
In the end I will basically give it a full rebuild, but can't all at once out of necessity from a time/budget stance.
This will rebuild basically the entire lower end of the engine at least and between new oil pump, starter, timing chain, crankshaft, bearings, and a handfull of sensors as well as all 8 spark plugs, finished with a full fluids change including lucas additives I feel like I will see a pretty substantial Improvement to the terrible performance it had beforehand.
It has also given me an opportunity to really inspect most of the rest of the components pretty well, and gives me much more confidence and all of my vacuum lines and hoses and such.
I am really on the edge of my seat to see what kind of improvement in performance and oil pressure I will see from this first major work set.
I appreciate any input or advice in this journey, and thank you for the understanding in my budget / time limitations. :)
