hitting the rev-limiter...

[hdawg06]

Hey, I hit the rev-limiter today in my 95 5.0 because I missed a shift...how bad is this on your engine? ive done this before too..

 

[HISSIN50]

It should not be any big thing. The limiter cuts fuel and is made to be hit occasionally, I guess.

I would not sweat it too much.

Good luck.

 

[CManT1914]

One time I just held the throttle WOT bouncing off the rev limiter for about 30 minutes.












j/k! But bouncing off the rev limiter occasionally is not too harmful. It does indeed cut fuel, which if you do it to much (like everyday several times a day), then yea you'll eventually hurt something. But I really wouldn't worry about it.

I just remembered, I DID one time accidentally rev mine to 7k according to the tach (throttle was stuck wide open when I started the engine), and it didn't hurt anything.

 

[hdawg06]

well the car is making a faint ticking now so thats what got me worried...

 

[Synned]

Could be a header gasket.

 

[Rootus]

Hitting the limiter isn't what would worry me. Depending on how stock your valvetrain is, and how many miles it has on it ... I'd be more worried about damaging that or even floating a valve.

 

[hdawg06]

it has 43k miles on it...and has lead a pretty easy life.

 

[Don 95Vert]

Ford tests cars by holding them on the limiter for 15 minutes. The factory limiter cuts fuel so fast that there is not enough fuel energy to do any damage. The only thing that is not good is the torsional stress the motor is under by quickly revving, then stopping, then revving, etc.

But you motor, while it has low miles IS 11 years old - the metal in the valve spings may be weak, the rockers may be weak and lifters may be going. The ticking could be any of that.