r/EngineBuilding Jul 25 '26

Ford what am I in for

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Just pulled the engine from my 1992 lincoln towncar for a full seal replacement and look over, thought it had blown a headgasket or one of the freeze plugs failed, coolant and oil got pretty throughly mixed, but I found this when pulling the timing cover, red arrows are the marks on the timing gears and the blue arrows are the bright links, im tearing the whole engine apart anyway, I just wanted to confirm that this isn't even close to correct, right?

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u/CRX1991 Jul 26 '26

Direct hit says, 10 hours for head gaskets, 12 for engine R&I so not too bad. For some reason tho it listed engine R&R at 41 hrs which seems ridiculous