And that would be a mistake... It makes much more sense to flush that assembly oil as early as possible. The factory is balancing cost vs benefit... However, the benefit of flushing that out early is still there, question is are you (or the factory) willing to pay for it?
It's not even an absolute need on the 1st gen 3.5 EB depending on the operating conditions... However, it won't hurt anything either. It's just less opportunity to have shit stuck to the back of the valves. I am unsure under what conditions that they get caked so badly, but I have not seen those issues on my Ecoboost, however, why would you NOT want to have a catch can??? Just seems like cheap insurance.
How about using one of these? I've never used one but everyone I know who has, swears by them .... so I'm thinking about getting one.
How many 10R60's have you been through???I really like the 2.7l but I really dislike the 10R60.
I have always wondered that myself, on my personal vehicles (some I only put 2000 mi per year or less) I always use Synthetic and over the years I have had several auto and motorcycle mechanics tell me that oil doesn't go bad from sitting as long as you at least run it every month or so, and with that info I have always changed my oil with-in a 2-3 year period for the low mileage cars under my watch and it has seemed to work just fine.
Won't work on this engine, there is a separate chamber that the dipstick reads from.
Because its another possible point of failure? My tuned 3.5L Ecoboost in my SHO ran fine to almost 100K before I sold it, outside of the timing chains being noisy when you first started it.
Once a year is sufficient. Just make sure that when you do run it you run it long enough to get the moisture out of it
Y-block was too old for me, except for driving my grandfather's '57 T-bird. Did a poor man's rebuild on a 352 in an F-600 that was run for a brief time without oil. That would be the oldest for me.Is anybody here old enough, besides me, to remember the Ford 239, 272, 292, 312 "Y-Block" engines.? To my knowledge that was the last Ford engine to use a canister style oil filter.!! Hmmm.! I see problems on the horizon for those who are not in the "I’m anal and I know it" category.! Those who are not will be buying "Acme" filter cartridges that don’t seal right internally. OR, be taking their 2.7 to the local GR EASY DRAIN for service.! I'm still very happy with my "spin-on" 2.3.!
