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[Jackpine]

Originally Posted by osprey

Thank you, Bill, for clearing up my idea.

Coming from over 35 years of working on engines from a 59A flathead in a '37 coupe to today's modular engines, I knew what the symptoms sounded like, but wasn't sure what exact component was the culprit. Hearing about this problem makes me even more leary of the 5.4 3V and the cam phasers.

The more I hear about what can go wrong, the more nervous I am to take my truck out in the "bush". Let's see, we have cam phasers (sounds like something out of Star Trek), fuel injectors, COPs, plugs that fall apart when removed, a fuel pump driver module that likes to swell up and crack, any number of sensors that can all go belly up at any time, and, an electronic brain that might develop a crack in a solder joint which would render it useless.

Wish I had an old WWII Army Jeep.

- Jack