Hot take but the 5.4 Triton is hands down the best motor ever put in a truck and the only people that hate on it are the ones that don’t know how to maintain anything. Everyone cries about spark plugs breaking, cam phasers ticking, timing chains, coils going bad… yeah that’s called owning a vehicle. You think any other engine just runs forever with zero maintenance?
Meanwhile the 5.4 will run with a misfire, run with a vacuum leak, run with the timing rattling, run with half the coils unplugged, and still start every morning. I’ve seen these things with 250k sounding like a diesel and still hauling trailers like nothing happened. Try that with half these newer turbo motors and see how far you get before you’re pricing out a whole engine.
People love to hype up LS, Hemi, Coyotes, all that, but I swear the Triton will outlive all of them just off pure stubbornness. You can neglect it for years, ignore every noise it makes, and it still refuses to die. That’s not bad engineering, that’s durability.
Ford really built a motor so tough that people get mad at it for not being perfect.
Say what you want but I trust a clapped-out 5.4 with a tick over most of these new engines with 10 sensors per cylinder.
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