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Engine & Drivetrain
Anyone Replace Engine Cradle Gasket?
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<blockquote data-quote="MarkDawn Houlahan" data-source="post: 916258" data-attributes="member: 55949"><p>Hey all, long time no post. Been a traveling fool for work and spent the last two years building a Cobra replica. Now building a '68 Mustang with my son.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Anyway, the Trac is still going strong and believe it or not we've had the same rear bumper cover for almost two years! (long time members will know what I'm talking about):grin:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>At 148K miles the truck is as strong as ever with no major problems. She's due for another round of front brakes and i'll be doing ball joints this time too, but our one issue is an oil leak. I thought it was just the oil pan gasket, but it appears that it might be coming from the engine block cradle (the aluminum reinforcement between the block and oil pan). I looked in the Ford service manual and it's a bunch of work to R&R. Has anyone replaced both the upper and lower oil pan gaskets, or removed the engine block cradle to access engine internals?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks for any insight, and hopefully I can start catching up on here. It's been ages!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" />nline:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mark</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkDawn Houlahan, post: 916258, member: 55949"] Hey all, long time no post. Been a traveling fool for work and spent the last two years building a Cobra replica. Now building a '68 Mustang with my son. Anyway, the Trac is still going strong and believe it or not we've had the same rear bumper cover for almost two years! (long time members will know what I'm talking about):grin: At 148K miles the truck is as strong as ever with no major problems. She's due for another round of front brakes and i'll be doing ball joints this time too, but our one issue is an oil leak. I thought it was just the oil pan gasket, but it appears that it might be coming from the engine block cradle (the aluminum reinforcement between the block and oil pan). I looked in the Ford service manual and it's a bunch of work to R&R. Has anyone replaced both the upper and lower oil pan gaskets, or removed the engine block cradle to access engine internals? Thanks for any insight, and hopefully I can start catching up on here. It's been ages!:online: Mark [/QUOTE]
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