Carbon Build up
Recently took my truck to the dealer for engining knocking noise I am having when I am pulling my boat up hill. Dealer told me the problem is a carbon build up. He offered to clean it at a cost of $99.00. He also told me this was a common problem with all 5.4 engines, but Ford does not cover this under warrenty. (Truck only has 33k) Has anybody else heard of this problem?
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Heard of it, but not experienced it. Well, at least not the carbon part of it.
I tow a #4500 TT and have 108K miles on my rig. No pinging and I only use 87 octane gas. Only time I've pinged is if I got gas at this one Texaco/Shell station, I would ping just a tad not towing anything...... (I don't go there any more.....) All other Texaco/Shell gas was fine. I also will go to Chevron gas as well. What gas do you use? Hope it's not ARCO......... That stuff was fine when I was a teenager and had no money and drove a '71 LTD, but I've been running Texaco/Shell/Chevron in my truck and other fuel injected vehicles for years and have never needed to add any 'additive' to clean the engine. |
On the flip side I use a good quality gas station in my area, it's a Shell that was a Texco. I still put fuel injector cleaner in my fuel tank at every oil change of 3,000 miles. I only have 38,000 on the motor but have never had any problems with pinging on 87 otane
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Got to your local NAPA store and get some Sea Foam for engines. I use it regularly in my 97 F-150 to reduce pinging and reduce carbon build-up. It really works. Barely any pinging when I pull my 21' Javelin F/S boat.
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Originally posted by Yankee7985 Got to your local NAPA store and get some Sea Foam for engines. |
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