Ford Racing 427 burning oil

[mreid]

Unbelieveable. In typical forum fashion, we love spending other people's money. Those springs are huge and were made for a very high lift solid roller cam which I was changing in the picture. Also notice that those heads are set up with Jesel rockers. My son was compressing the spring in the picture only so we could take a picture. It is very easy to use by yourself. I've used that spring compressor on many engines over the last 20 years with zero problems. The tool works fine with none of the problems stated above. Far from a POS. You guys can make poor, yet expensive recommendations based on speculation or you can defer to experience. At the end of the day, it is your choice, Chris.

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Originally Posted by mreid

Unbelieveable. In typical forum fashion, we love spending other people's money. Those springs are huge and were made for a very high lift solid roller cam which I was changing in the picture. Also notice that those heads are set up with Jesel rockers. My son was compressing the spring in the picture only so we could take a picture. It is very easy to use by yourself. I've used that spring compressor on many engines over the last 20 years with zero problems. The tool works fine with none of the problems stated above. Far from a POS. You guys can make poor, yet expensive recommendations based on speculation or you can defer to experience. At the end of the day, it is your choice, Chris.

I have the same one as in your pics and used it a number of times and have never had any problems with it either.......works just fine for me.....

David

[mike harter]

i bought a brand new 427 windsor from ford racing that did the same thing puffing blue smoke at idle and using a quart every 300 miles. I switched to synthetic the smoke went away only beacuse syn. has a higher flash point. It still used a qt. every 200 miles. I kept complaining to the warranty at ford racing after 4700 miles i pulled it out and they paid all the shipping and put new rings and bearings in. They dynoe it at 545 h.p. and 548 lbs. of torque. NO SMOKE NO OIL CONSUMPTION. Ford picked up the tab for everything