21 Jun 09 09:20, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Being a jack-of-all-trades and a master-of-none, I was pretty good
 RW>> too, but hanging over fenders puts a cramp in my arse these days!

 RN> It doesn't cramp your gut, too?

Yeup.

 RW>> I thought your Lincoln had the 5.0L...

 RN> It's a 4.6L, DOHC, I think, and I mistakenly called the head covers
 RN> rocker covers.

Never saw one open, so I can't say that they do or don't have rockers.

 RW>> It looks to me like the distributor is out front, just like the
 RW>> 5.0L...

 RN> I don't remember, but you are probably right.  My remembrance of Ford
 RN> engines is that the distributors are in the front.  I wish GM had
 RN> done that.

Buick and Cadilac did that. The newer engines don't have distributors.
They have a crankshaft sensor on the V8s that tells the computer to fire
one coil for each cylinder. The coils are mounted on the valve covers over
each spark plug (spark plug wires are 8" max). The V6s have a two-pack
coil that fires more than one cylinder.

 RW>> Then it's the next size up pickup engine I'm thinking of. A 5.4L V8?

 RN> The '95 Mark VIII, as far as I know, only had the 280HP, 4.6L engine.

Yeah, but the 5.4L V8 must be the one that the spark plug shield stays in
the cylinder...

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