AVOIDABLE! Blown Mercury Marauder 4.6L DOHC V8 Full Engine Teardown

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Here's weekly dose of your catastrophic engine forensics! Every week you can find a new teardown of some abused, misused and/or poorly designed engine. I've got over 160 videos of failed engine teardowns on this channel.
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Today we have the engine out of my buddy Ian's 2003 Mercury Marauder. This is a 4.6L DOHC all aluminum modular V8 that makes just over 300hp. This engine is very similar to that found in the Mustang Cobra, Mach1, and virtually the same as the Lincoln Aviator with manifolds being the main difference. These are relatively simple engines, fairly easy to work on and pretty reliable. Unfortunately in Ian's case, this engine has been overheated a few times which led to oil consumption. Without diligent oil level monitoring, things can go downhill fast as we can see in this teardown.
Why am I doing this? I own and run a full service auto salvage business called Importapart. Part of our model includes dismantling blown or core engines to salvage the good parts from. We do not rebuild engines, we merely sell parts to those who do.

I really hope you enjoyed this teardown, as always I love all of the comments, feedback and even the criticism. Catch you on the next one!
-Eric