Whats to many miles on a 5.0 motor

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06-22-2007, 02:02 PM

#21

Swirl

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RE: Whats to many miles on a 5.0 motor

My car leaks some, but not enough to worry (yet!)

I do need to clean my engine though, it's really dirty.

06-22-2007, 02:08 PM

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90lxstang

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RE: Whats to many miles on a 5.0 motor

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ORIGINAL: mustanglp87

i love my fox and it has about 189k miles on it and im never selling it either. if anything ever happens to it, im just gonna drop a 351 in it. but i love my car too much to get rid of it.

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ORIGINAL: 93 LX FiveO

bought mine with 152,000 on the clock

pushing 170,000+ now

odometer dont even work but its not like it matters. ill never sell it.

+1 onthe 351!

mine has 140k andthe motor still rocks. the car is in rough shape though haha

06-22-2007, 02:48 PM

#23

Pony 5.0

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RE: Whats to many miles on a 5.0 motor

My first motor lasted to 200,000 miles until the oil pump went out and made it spin a main bearing.

06-22-2007, 02:56 PM

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7upedition

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RE: Whats to many miles on a 5.0 motor

just them a 1/4 mile at a time....

06-23-2007, 12:01 AM

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MEM 302 5.0L

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RE: Whats to many miles on a 5.0 motor

my car did leak but thats cuz my engine was literally sitting on the oil pan (motor mounts broke) and it push the oil pan gasket out the side, and yeah got that fixed, and just recently my timing chain cover cracked down the middle so its leaking slightly there, i have a little over 140k miles on mine...

06-23-2007, 12:14 AM

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ZachW04Stang

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RE: Whats to many miles on a 5.0 motor

My 87 has 180k miles on it and it burns a little oil but runs very strong.

The 86 I had 250k miles on it, didn't burn any oil but it leaked really bad.

06-23-2007, 12:16 AM

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7upedition

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RE: Whats to many miles on a 5.0 motor

115k ... no more leaks since tear down 1 1/2 years ago, replaced all the gaskets and cleaned her up real nice... runs like a champ! My friend Dan has 198k on his car, it was from Texas, all highway miles he says.

06-23-2007, 12:22 AM

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raven_ghostwolf

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RE: Whats to many miles on a 5.0 motor

Mine has 300K+ still running strong only thing gonna kill it now is if the insurance writes it off as a total from when I got hit they say they are but I'm still waiting on the offical and final word on it, hopefully next week but 100k? HEHyoursis just now getting broken in.