How to Rebuild 4.6-/5.4-Liter Ford Engines Author: Visit Amazon's George Reid Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1613250436 | Format: PDF
How to Rebuild 4.6-/5.4-Liter Ford Engines Description
Review
Very nicely done, hands-on book which brings you up-to speed on these two engines. ---Engine Professional, reviewed by Mike Caruso, July-Sept. 2009.
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About the Author
George Reid has been a Ford enthusiast for 30 years. Now retired, he restores and builds Fords. He is also the author of the best-selling Ford Engine Parts Interchange (published by CarTech) and Ford V-8s on a Budget (CarTech). He lives in southern California.
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
- Paperback: 148 pages
- Publisher: CarTech, Inc. (April 2, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1613250436
- ISBN-13: 978-1613250433
- Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I was eagerly awaiting this book, having pre-ordered it some time before it was available.
It was worth the wait.
It had most of what I needed and more than I expected. I learned a great deal about the Ford Modular V8s, though not everything I wanted to learn. Among the high spots of this book is that it's as much a basic "performance" manual as it is a "rebuild" manual. There are lots of useful upgrade tidbits contained within, which is really a bonus above the more practical primary purpose of the book. Fortunately, the author didn't supplant any rebuild material for the performance stuff. The other useful element is that the engine is thoroughly explained and dissected to give a new owner the basic foundation for understanding this unusual engine. If you are an "old time" gearhead like me, used to the big iron V8s of yesteryear, the reorientation is useful.
The book is well organized and well laid out and fairly easy to navigate- which is fortunate, because it is not indexed. That's my segue to the more critical part of this review. Any book of this type should have an index. I understand the reasons why books are not indexed, which are primarily financial in nature, but every technical book like this should have an index and I knock off "points" for any that aren't. The other area in which I deducted points for this particular book is in how the author discusses lubricants. This is a topic on which I have a bit of knowledge and I think the author was barely able to make the target, let along hit close to the center. I knocked a coupla points off for that. Personally, I wanted to see more on the Variable Valve Timing of the later model engines, a topic Reid barely touched upon. Is that an oversight or merely him focusing on more relevant topics?
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