Fortunately the factory Ford pumps aren't terribly expensive. M-8501-M50A is the Ford racing part number, includes: pump, pulley, bolts.
What car do you have? I used to drive a Ford C-Max and getting to the cabin air filter was insanely hard.
5k Ford motorcraft synthetic oil and filter. Bought my truck at 61,000 and it has 75,000 on it now. Love that 3.5 eco boost. Had a 5.7 hemi Ram prior and the 3.5 eco boost outperforms on every level.
Change your cabin air filter for the bad smell. Could be clogged as well causing less air flow.
Focus RS. If Ford had just built them with the correct head gaskets…!
I’ve changed the cabin air filter probably 4 times now, used a foam evap coil cleaner twice, ran Lysol thru the cowl multiple times, did a descent bomb in the car. At absolute best, this lasts for a couple weeks and then back to this gross mildew smell coming from vents.
Regardless of servicing etc, that wet belt is still deteriorating as it is soaked in the hot engine oil.
If it has been done they are actually a good engine when working fine. Plenty of torque and good on fuel. It’s just the reliability of them that’s the major issue. They switched to a timing chain from the wet belt from 2018 for a good reason. The 1.2 turbo engines from PSA are also wet belts and also switched to a chain around 2023. They are a terrible design and simply not going to be economical to maintain properly as the car ages.
Warranty covered my 2022 Mach-E battery replacement but it would've cost $12k out of pocket.
"GT350 Hood" - Not really. Some of these things are just made up.
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