This is a typical intake valve seat failure. It doesn’t matter that this is a 4.7 Dodge pickup truck head. It happens to other car models as well. In most cases it is the intake seats, occasionally the exhaust. I don’t know how much money Chrysler saved per engine but my cost difference between powdered…
Cracked 6.0 and 6.4 Powerstroke Ford Diesel Cylinder Heads We make our 6.0 and 6.4 Ford diesel cylinder heads as bullet proof as is possible and back them with a no fault Lifetime Warranty! We Can Build Them By The Book or Customize Them The Way You Want Them All our Ford diesel cylinder heads…
Flawed Ford Cylinder Head? Isn’t that design the reason you’re here in the first place? We have checked over 20 new cylinder heads, from 7 different sources, including Ford’s new ‘Redesigned’ 6.0. cylinder heads. Why have we gone through this much trouble you ask? The answer is simple we at Southeast Cylinder Heads are experts…
New vs. Repaired Ford Cylinder Heads We often times get asked why we don’t sell new Ford Diesel Cylinder Heads and why we prefer to repair them, even though it would cost us less, and allow us to make even higher margins, as new heads can cost $342.50 or even less. The answer is simple:…
Have you ever wondered why Ford says don’t resurface these cylinder heads? Thickness of the cylinder head could be one reason, surface finish can be another and lastly, maybe they just want to sell more OE Ford cylinder heads. I don’t think they say it to sell more Ford cylinder heads at all. That leaves…
6.0 Powerstroke Rocker Arms – Ford 6.0 Problems These Ford 6.0 problems can be solved. We have always known you cannot use 18MM rocker boxes on 20MM cylinder heads and vice versa. Some shops, we have been told, will change the cylinder heads and rocker boxes as assembly from an early engine to a late…
Ford Focus Valve Seat Gasket Problems 1997-2005 Ford 2.0 SOHC, VIN Code P, Escort, Focus and Tracer Obviously Ford sold a whole bunch of these cars. Of all the cylinder heads off these models we have done, about 75% are from a valve seat coming out. Sometimes it will damage more than one cylinder from shrapnel…
It’s A Well Known Problem There are 3 engine families that have a well-known problem: the intake seats fall out which naturally causes internal engine damage. Unfortunately for the Chrysler/Dodge owners, Chrysler Corp. has 2 of them: 3.7 and 4.7 SOHC engines as well as the 5.7 and 6.1 Hemi engines. In addition (according to…
To begin with, broken valve seats are expensive. How would you feel if you had to repair them again….in a week? Exactly! This is a partial list of vehicles and engines we have seen with this problem: Ford Escort 1.9 SOHC, Engine VIN Code J, 1986 thru 1996 Ford Escort 2.0 SOHC, Engine VIN Code…
Marine Head Gaskets vs. Automotive. There is no difference! There is some truth to that statement up to a point. Have you ever been 30 miles out from the shoreline and you had engine trouble with your boat engine? Now go ahead and tell me to just call AAA! Other than that, when comparing marine…
