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My experience with ford crate motors is on par with cobrashoch. I had one customer (with a ford crate motor) tow his car into the shop. The distributer gear went away on it. Ford put a cast iron gear in it with a roller cam. It was also getting a tiny amount of coolant in every cylinder. The motor was shipped back to the ford facility at customer's expense, and returned with a new dist gear only. $600 worth of shipping for a $5 part replacement. The customer also had to pay my shop to troubleshoot, remove, crate up, ship, and reinstall the motor. The coolant issue was written in magic marker on the valve cover, and was still there when it came back from ford, and so was the problem. Customer was very disappointed with the motor and the warrantee service from ford.
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In a fit of 16 year old genius, I looked down through the carb while cranking it to see if fuel was flowing, and it was. Flowing straight up in a vapor cloud, around my head, on fire.
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