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Mileage and Issues

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GottaBoss said:
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the front-end control arm grunt/squeak noise issue. Anyone have it?

Yes. I had that and replaced both sides as well as the trans fluid per TSB.
 
2013 LS - 8200 miles, 6 track days - new short block, warranty. I also had that "slight tick" mentioned in another post. Diagnosed as #7 wrist pin slap - slight scoring was observed when the heads came off by dealer's tech. Ford does not allow any further disassembly for failure analysis at dealers so that's all I have on it.

No other issues and yes the original block was the new and improved version - first they have seen. On another note my next door neighbor's 2013 GT (he was jealous so he bought one) just last week went in for a new long block - lost compression on number 7, down 20lbs with 18,000.
 

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