4.7l woes and rant

I got lucky on mine, all came out with ease! :D On the crank trigger must be a north eastern state thing or where they put alot of salt on the roads and gets up all up there and causes that because mine came out with ease, no problems!
Agreed. I'm in NW Iowa and have worked on a few of these in Dakotas and Durangos. Nlocks were terribly rusty there.