<div dir="ltr"><div>Not real revelant since my F-150 is a tiny bit older... OK, it's a 1983. :-)</div><div>It's a 302 (I'm about 40 years behind on metric references) which is not my favorite engine. I had another 1983 F-150 with a 300 CID straight 6 that pulled heavy trailer loads much better and was 3 times easier to work on.</div><div>Any-who, I was buying firewood last winter since I was having some health issues. It was great wood, (ash) nicely processed, good price and about a 20 mile round trip. The old F-150 was doing great but about half way through winter it suddenly started to get noisy and lacked power. It kept getting more noisy, well beyond normal loose engine noisy. I changed oil and filter and made maybe 3 more trips with it and really wondered if I was going to make it home on the last trip. The guy ran out of wood and I was feeling better so I started cutting at home. I parked the truck and mentioned to son Scott that I wanted him to listen to it for me some time. He was busy,I was busy, it rained heavily all spring and then it got silly hot. The truck just sat since I was using a tractor and trailer for wood cut at home. I got around to checking it out last week and it wouldn't turn over right. It was really binding somewhere and as it tried it was growling badly. I hit the starter about 5 or 6 times and then it clunked and started spinning over and fired up and sat there running quietly. OK, quietly for a 38 year old truck. :-) I have been using it some this week and it has been fine. I really believe that at some point the starter had jammed in the engaged position and had everything in a bind.</div><div>I'll replace the starter just to be safe and watch it. Had it not just started working I would have never considered it being the starter.<br></div><div>It is kind of an "extra" truck and at times in the past it has sat without being used for extended periods. I have owned it for maybe 30 years and in that time it has never had many miles put on it. It doesn't owe me anything, I bought it at a yard sale for $450. The seller told me he was selling it because it was using so much oil that he considered mounting a barrel in the bed. :-)</div><div>It wasn't "using" oil it was "leaking" oil. Easy fix. It had a missing bolt in the timing cover. It never smoked back then and still doesn't.</div><div>I have always liked the body style of that vintage. As I get older I also like not needing a ladder to climb in it. :-)<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 8:14 PM Mike M <<a href="mailto:meulenms@gmx.com">meulenms@gmx.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks Steve, no check engine light has come on, sorry for the mix
up but it is a 2012. I would assume their would be no codes?<br>
<br>
Mike M<br>
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<div>On 9/13/2021 5:00 PM, Stephen Offiler
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<div dir="ltr">According to Nada Guides, there was a 4.6 V8 and
a 5.4 V8 in model year 2010, and in model year 2011 they
changed to a 3.7 V6 and a 5.0 V8. Sorry but I don't have a
lot of input on the problem. Clogged catalytic converter is
definitely on the list based on the symptoms. Fuel filter is
another guess. Apparently there's no Check Engine lamp? I am
still trying to think how oil pressure could play a role. It
shouldn't be able to get high, as there's always a relief
valve in there somewhere. What if that failed... what would
high oil pressure do? Well, really really stretching here but
if there's any variable valve timing arrangement on that
engine, they sometimes actuate it with oil pressure...</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 4:36
PM John Hall <<a href="mailto:jtchall@nc.rr.com" target="_blank">jtchall@nc.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Somebody switch engines?
Thought the 5.0 was long gone before 2010. <br>
Think my son's 2002 is a 4.6?<br>
<br>
John Hall<br>
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On 9/13/2021 4:28 PM, Mike M wrote:<br>
> Hi all, I have a question about my daughters fiances
truck. He has a<br>
> 2010 or 2011 F-150 with a 5.0 V8 in it. He said it
feels sluggish on the<br>
> highway, like he's dragging a boat anchor, and his oil
pressure seemed<br>
> higher than normal. He changed the oil and filter the
other day, and<br>
> said the dipstick had some "stuff"on it, so he changed
it again, no<br>
> improvement. I suggested that he check his air filter
to make sure a<br>
> mouse or other critter didn't make a nest in there, but
that was fine.<br>
> Any thoughts? I'm certainly no mechanic, but my only
other thought would<br>
> be a catalytic converter that is clogging up .<br>
><br>
> Thank-you,<br>
> Mike M<br>
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