Ford recalls 90,736 vehicles due to engine valve issue

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Ford recalls 90,736 vehicles due to engine valve issue

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will recall 90,736 vehicles as engine intake valves in the vehicles may break while driving, the

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) said on Saturday. The recall impacts certain 2021-2022

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vehicles equipped with either a 2.7L or 3.0L

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EcoBoost engine, the NHTSA said.

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and sourced from the automaker, “The engine intake valves may break while driving, which can result in engine ******** and a loss of drive power.” Following an investigation that started in January, 2022, Ford found 22 instances where “the engine intake valves fractured and fell into the combustion chamber of the engine causing catastrophic engine damage.”

The automaker’s analysis continues: “Ford identified that the potential root cause of the failures was engine intake valve ******** due to valves that exceeded the designed specification for hardness, were brittle, and more likely to fracture. Ford determined that this was due to the supplier’s grinding processes and the sensitivity of the intake valve material to grinding processes that were not within control specifications. The intake valve material was changed for vehicles produced after October 31, 2021.”

Fixing the problem will require replacement of the entire engine. “Dealers will inspect each vehicle to determine its cumulative number of engine cycles. For vehicles that do not meet the engine cycle threshold,

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will accumulate high revolutions per minute (rpm) engine cycles per a service procedure. Engines will be replaced on vehicles that do not pass the engine cycle accumulation,” Ford says.

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