Good morning community! My neighbors son has a 2009 Ford Edge, water pump went out, he overheated it, and now has low compression on the rear bank of cylinders. I'd guess some bearing damage from using antifreeze as a lubricant as well... I'm trying to help him get his car back on the road as cheaply as possible. We've found a 3.5 from an explorer locally that was ecoboost swapped, that we can pick up for a really good price, only problem being it's a 2015. I had completely abandoned the idea of using that engine since it has the dual variable cam timing, and it looked like that wouldn't be compatible. Maybe we could swap the heads, but then he'd still have to get his old heads surfaced, new head bolts, timing chains have to come off, etc, just didn't look to be worth the hassle (assuming it's even possible).
Then this morning I was looking for the part numbers for the lifting eye and power steering line tools, and stumbled on a post where it sounded like someone did just that. So my question is, can the dual variable cam timing engine be swapped into an earlier model year?
Thank you!
