That's an old wives tale.
Please edit the title and original post with the engine you're referring to or, if it's both, make sure that that's clear in the post. Cheers.
We call it mud
250 amp part number please?
I agree with this . I spray my whole engine down often when cleaning. Also I have the fender liners removed, so things get wetter and muddy easier. The issue has to be with minerals in the water ... even a small amount of iron in the dirt or mud will cause big problems.
The OP's failure (2.7L engine) was initially covered under a different thread, but Doug has now merged the two threads, so there should be less confusion going forward.
The physical location of the Generator (actual name in the Technical Service Manual) is not that dramatically different vertically between the two engines, although it is a little lower on the 2.7L, and it is located on the passenger's side of the 2.7L engine versus the driver's side of the 2.3L engine.
I call it wet dust.
That is not accurate. There is an overlap of 5 to 10 degrees of crankshaft revolution when both are opened. Also when you shut off the ignition the motor doesn't stop instantly, as there is some inertia that continues the rotation. You don't have to fill the cylinder to bend a rod.
Was a Ford tech for 20yrs before leaving in 2018. I don't need a lesson as to why I said "generator".... wasn't going to waste time explaining why I said "generator" either because "actual name in service technical manual" or throwing out another random fact like "alternator" is trademarked by Chrysler motors.
I wasn’t trying to teach you a lesson. Just because I quoted your post, along with another user’s post, doesn’t mean that I disagree with you, and I didn’t even quote that part of your post. I was just adding additional information to the entire conversation. There are more people reading this thread than just you and me, and several people have mentioned the location of the alternator.
I apologize then, I'm just tired of seeing so many people posting bad information, and you taking only a snippet of my post and using it as a segway to talk about how low the gens are I had assumed that you were taking his side.I wasn’t trying to teach you a lesson. Just because I quoted your post, along with another user’s post, doesn’t mean that I disagree with you, and I didn’t even quote that part of your post. I was just adding additional information to the entire conversation. There are more people reading this thread than just you and me, and several people have mentioned the location of the alternator.
I only referenced the word “Generator” to minimize potential confusion about the two screenshots that I posted which clearly reference “Generator” and not “Alternator”. You and I know that Ford TSMs have referred to alternators as generators for years, but most other people don’t know that, and they might get confused by screenshots that reference “generator” if I was using the word “alternator”.
I agree with you that just because it sits low doesn’t mean anything. If you had read my prior post in this thread, you might recall that I actually demonstrated with a video that my alternator did not fail after driving through some pretty deep muddy water.
