Replacing blown engine 2010 SHO

[Spoolin-SVT]

Not sure if this is the right area to past this in but I am wondering if anyone has pulled the engine out of their Taurus?
Or know of anyone that has.

Long story short, i blew my engine about a year ago and have been putting it on the back burner for quite some time now.
I have found a really good deal on a new engine but, I am trying to avoid spending the $2,000 the dealership wants to swap it in.
I am very familiar with working on my own vehicles and have pulled countless engines.
But from my understanding these engines are designed to be remove from the bottom.
I do not have access to a lift and was wondering if it would be possible to pull it from the top.

 

[SHOdded]

Engine removal procedure from the FSM

Sorry to hear about the engine!  Do you know what happened?

 

[Spoolin-SVT]

Thanks for the quick reply, I will look at that after this.

Yeah, well kind of, I was doing some heavy pulls one night and then noticed that it had a "miss" at idle shortly after. tried to drive it to work the following day and it would spit and sputter really bad around 2k rpms and would kind of chug while I was letting my foot off the brakes getting ready to take off.

I ended up pulling the plugs and found one that was completely fouled , I figured that my coil went bad so i replaced it and put a new plug in the cylinder and it seemed to run normal for a bit but continuously got worse the more I drove it. When I got home I pulled the plug again it was completely covered.....in oil.
Just as it was the first time but I was telling myself that it couldn't be. Ended up doing a compression check and 1,2 were both 187 PSI and #3 was a solid 50.
Figured I either blew the top ring land or put a hole in the piston.

Added a pic of the plug, keep in mind this was brand new about 15 mins earlier and no more than 3-4 miles.

 

[SHOdded]

Usually the valve cover gasket (2013+) gives on that cylinder, but this is definitely an internal issue.  A cracked piston/head does happen on these engines from time to time, though.

 

[Spenser281]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I'm basically in the same boat.  I'm trying to find a used engine.  Will the 2013+ engines work in the 10-12 cars?

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[bpd1151]

Yes

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[pmezo33]

Not really related to this specific question, but would the Taurus or MKS 3.7 liter engine work with these cars?