new 1/26/2004
Hi "SHO" Folks,
I bought this silver '98 SHO from a sales person who had clocked in around
170,000(highway) Km's but nevertheless the car was in a immaculate condition
and everything worked including the CD.
Despite reading the various Cam mishaps happening to so many SHO owners, I
conferred with some friends including John Hamilton of Peterborough who
encouraged me to go ahead with acquiring an SHO. Boy am I glad I made the
decision and today after 11 months and clocking 30000Km's more the car is
humming like new.
After lot of deliberations I decided to get the "Loctite Procedure" done on
my Cams since my car was long due for the mandatory 160000Km's Tune-up. I
was encouraged reading Phil Silano's experience regarding the "Loctite
Procedure", and after a lot of searching I finally zeroed into Whiteoak Ford
dealership at Mississauga to get my job done. Here there is a Mechanic-Frank
and the Tech.Advisor John Bettio both of whom had been trained at
FORD-Dearborn for doing this job. It cost me a total of CAD$.1800 to get
everything fixed which included changing all Fluids, replacing 8
sparkplugs, PCV,O-rings, couple of gaskets, fuel filter, Loctite Procedure, one
spark plug coil, etc. Though the attitude of the FORD dealership was quite
good but lets see how long this lasts.
My SHO now runs more smoothly and the engine is more responsive and I have
now peace of mind. I would like to share my experience hence am enclosing
the 7 photos taken during the Loctite procedure being done by Ford
Technician.
Though I would have liked to have the Cam-Weld's done but as there was no
support North of the border (in Canada) and some proposed Camfests scheduled
to have been organized here did not happen, I took my chances and went ahead
with getting my Cams and Sprockets Loctited.
Thanks a lot to your Site for all the information and to Phil Silano.
Regards,
SATT
http://www.v8sho.com/SHO/ErnieRobertsLoctitedCamFailure272.htm
I think it's important that we realize that there has already been a cam failure from loctited cams. Ford seems to think this work. We shall see.
U.L.