Can I ask how you got a quart of water in there?

 

Oh brother

 

Sounds like you got yourself one large and interesting paperweight sitting between the wheelwells now... My guess, time for a rebuild, or get that 460 you've been eyeing up. Quart of water in the oilpan? Never good.

Good luck!

Laz

 

hey f150fella, have you taken the belts off to see if its like an alternator or a/c compressor(if it has one), etc?

 

no not yet, its got an a/c but theres no belt around it how do i see if thats the problem?? besides buying new stuff lol

 

yea think saturday and sunday im gna start the motor and transmission yank

 

trucks been sittin in the wide open with the hood half open for about 10 years

 

WOW. Then the engine probably is locked up. I was thinking the pistons are probably rusted, at least somewhat, to the cylinder walls. If you was going to try and free it up I would spray about a fourth of a can of something like liquid wrench or PB Blaster in each spark plug hole.

 

sooo the best thing to do is tear it down and rebuilt it?? or is there hope to unlocking it maybe manually from the front of the motor

 

tear it down and rebuild, read my thread "seized? or not", just went through the same thing, took a while but saved a whole lot.

 

If the intake was all in place and the spark plugs were all in there may be some hope. But that quart of water had to get into the oil pan through somewhere. The cylinder walls would probably be rusty and there would probably be a rust ridge at the point where the top of each piston stopped. I guess anything is worth a try. It may run a while if you can free it up. It's your call. Good luck whatever you decide.

 

i think im just gonna tear it down and rebuild it

 

On my '97 with 4.6liter, I came back to the truck after getting a haircut and the engine wouldn't turn over. First thought was a battery (replaced with a known good one), then starter (just tested the old one to determine it wasn't the problem) and finally, I took off the serp. belt and viola! It started right up. Turned out the AC compressor was siezed. I never would have believed it could prevent the engine from turning over, but that's what it was. Hopefully, this might help someone else with what they think is a siezed engine (which was what I was leaning towards).