LOCKED UP Ford 351W 5.8L V8 Engine Teardown. How Bad Could It Be?

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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. Here are some of my favorites:
Locked up 454 Big Block Chevy    • COMPLETELY FROZEN! Vortec 454 7.4L BB...  
The Most Carnage EVER! 8.0 Ram V10    • 8 LITERS OF DESTRUCTION! Dodge Ram V1...  
A Broken WHAT!?    • Well That's Not Good! Nissan Titan XD...  
The unkillable 300 Straight 6    • FINALLY! A "Bad" Ford 4.9L 300 Straig...  
700K Mile 7.3 Teardown    • 700,000 Mile 7.3 Powerstroke Teardown...  

Today's teardown is a 5.8L 351 Windsor from a 1996 Ford F250 with 210K miles. This engine sat on the shelf for 17 years! Im not sure if it was a running engine when the truck was dismantled but it surely isn't now! This one was a real struggle and I didn't feel great about the end result. Sometimes its like that! You never know what these "Core" engines are going to be like until they are on the stand.


Why am I doing this? My name is Eric and I own and run a full service auto salvage business called Importapart. Part of our model includes dismantling blown and bad engines to salvage the good parts to resell. We do not rebuild engines, merely supply 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