black00thunder

well after swapping heads cause ford motor company guaranteed me that was the problem and was not the fix noise was still evident after assembly then on further tear down we found a peice of FORD assembly plant build paperwork in the oil pickup screen blocking oil passage resulting in damage to #1 cylinder rod bearing failure and so upon reassembly of engine noise is gone and the thing runs terrific gptta give thanks to the staff at PERFORMANCE SPECIALTIES in Pottstown P.A for all their hard work and understandig of my problem. i highly recommend them if you are in the north east and need stang work thats their specialty any year any model stang.Also have ford P.I. heads and valve covers for sale in perfect condition didnt need them anyone interested e-mail me

Fallstar01

Are they expensive? Because I work in King of Prussia which is maybe 20 min away and will need some work done soon.

black00thunder

To put a set of heads on my car - they charged me $800. I am from Southern Maryland and couldn't find anyone around here to do it for under $1600. They are very very reasonable. They do all kinds of work, but Mustangs are their thing. I would drive the 3 hours again to get more work done on my car. There phone number is 610-326-7000. Give them a call - they will give you a price right over the phone.

Fallstar01

Heading there later this afternoon

Fallstar01

Had a good experience with these guys. Price wasn't too bad.

black00thunder

Good to hear - what kind of work are you looking to get done?

monkeydude3

tis a shame, i live here in illinois. Wish I knew of a shop like that hear. That makes me laugh that Ford left the paper in there and ruined the engine.


So did this shop just replace the bearing that was F'ed? Or did they rebuild it? They sound like quality guys.


Have a good one

George

black00thunder

Its ok to laugh about it now - but when paying the bill, I wasn't doing much laughing. No, but they are really good guys. As far as I'm concerned they took care of me. I didn't feel ripped off or like they were trying to pull a quick one over my eyes. But I wish they were a little closer - there's really no shops like that around here either.

They replaced the bearing. Luckily the bearing didn't mess anything else up - they said that is what had surprised them the most. Oh well - its done and overwith now. And I still don't regret buying a Ford although its cost me a bunch of money over the past couple weeks. [:@]

monkeydude3

well that's good to hear. A quality shop is hard to find. I've had to deal with too many dishonest shops that don't do what they say or don't do a good job. Glad to hear you are up and runnin.

Have a great one!!!

George