Ford F150 Lightning Head Gasket Job

[jamie-lee 993rs]

Hi Any of you Lightning owners had to replace the head gaskets? Trucks running fine I know one has slighty gone so will do both obviously, every thing arrived today just waiting to get started wondering what hurdles may lay ahead.

I am hoping to do this with the engine in, which i believe is possible, its a 2002 motor btw

Ty Jamie

[shovelheadrob]

Check out http://rebel-v8.co.uk/index.php plenty of owners there

[jamie-lee 993rs]

Ty Rob

[SVTRick]

It's a nice easy job with the motor out.

However with it insitu you'll end up with back ache and skinned knuckles.
Good Luck

BTW pay special attention when setting the cam timing as you have to strip
the front end off the motor and its a PITA
Remove radaitor, inner wheel arches etc etc for access

Personally I would pull the motor out complete and carry out the work
on the bench.

[666 SVT]

Is it deffo a head gasket? If you have water coming out of the exhaust it
could be a leaky intercooler which the early ones were prone to. I had this
on my 99 and while it was a tricky job to do was not as bad as I imagine taking
the heads off would be ?

[jamie-lee 993rs]

Cheers for that Rick

666 Yeah defo a headgasket mate slowly loosing engine coolant, s/c leak is there too but nothing major will sort that at same time i reacon

Does any one know someone good in East Anglia (Norwich area) that knows these motors, Im thinking works busy at the moment & could do with out the lost time doing this on my own

Ive only ever seen one L around Norwich a while ago now heres mine anyhow

Edited by jamie-lee 993rs on Sunday 22 January 09:38

[shovelheadrob]

You should check out Rebel, there are a couple of owners around Norwich, should be able to point you in the right direction.

[HD Adam]

There's 4 Lightnings in the Gt Yarmouth area alone