Shoutout to the guy who showed me how to use a bore scope on a high mileage engine

I was fighting a rough idle on a 2005 F-150 with 220k miles and couldn't figure it out for two days. He took five minutes to scope the cylinders and found carbon buildup on the intake valves I would have never seen. Anyone else find that bore scopes are way more useful than you'd think for older trucks?

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tylerlane23d ago

Carbon buildup on the valves gets overlooked all the time on those Triton engines. A bore scope is one of those tools you don't realize you need until you actually use it and see what's going on inside. I picked one up last year after chasing a misfire on my 2000 Silverado and it saved me from throwing parts at it. Ended up being a cracked piston skirt that no amount of regular diagnostics would have caught. Really changes how you approach older trucks when you can actually see the internals.

noah24823d ago

I mean idk, maybe it's just me but my bore scope spends more time finding lost 10mm sockets than diagnosing engines.