2001 F 1-50 4.6

Ford numbers engine with #1 starting on front of right bank number toward rear and the left bank. A V8 would be 1-4 on right bank and 5-8 on left bank. #5 on your 4.6L is the first (front) cylinder on the left side.

Lugnut

Ok Right or left, ???? Drivers side or passenger side ???

Right is always from the point of view of the driver. So when you're under the hood from the front, it is to the left. And when you are looking from the back or the passenger compartment, it is on the right.

If you're in the use or another country with the steering wheel on the left, it's the passenger side.

If you're in the UK or another country with the steering wheel on the right, it's the driver's side.

Jeff

Just to clear it up.... #5 is the front cylinder on the drivers side.

Not if your in the UK. It has always seemed so simple to me that these things are from the perspective of the flywheel end on almost any application. Just when I thought I was conversing with someone who knew right from left, they asked it the other way! If I had said from passenger side, they would sure as hell be working with a UK vehicle. Then again, many highly respected publications will refer to the engine as clockwise rotation when it is really counter when viewed from the flywheel end. Who knows, anymore?????

Lugnut

Damn! I just blew it on my reply to you! I forgot to describe to them which end the flywheel end is. Or could it be the flexplate end?? Maybe I could just say the end opposite the one with the fan. No the fan is mounted on the side of some. Of course, on a sidewinder mount engine ........? Oh, the hell with it!!!

Lugnut

Ford numbers the cylinders of a vee engine as if each bank is separate inline engine, with the number of the cylinders in the second bank starting where the first bank cylinder numbers ended. Bank one is the bank most forward of the flywheel. The cylinders in that bank start with 1. For a V-8, the cylinders in that bank are number 1 thru 4. Bank two cylinders are numbered 5 thru 8. See:

store, it is telling me that # 5 has a miss fire. What

from the front. ( kinda switched them around) it

from the computer so it cant be the code left over.

Possible exhaust valve not sealing tight enough ???

engine, with the number of the cylinders in the

the bank most forward of the flywheel. The cylinders

thru 4. Bank two cylinders are numbered 5 thru 8.

Ed... make that "gas" engines.... diesels are numbered with the "odds" on the right hand side and the "evens" on the left...

For the OP (and everyone else).... the "accepted industry practice" is to view the corners of the car (yes... even "Escape" cars") from a point of view as if we were sitting in the drivers seat.... Confusing for some since, when we face the front of the car, the left side "feels" like the right side...

Top-postingly yours.....

I assume that the #1 cylinder is still the cylinder farthest from the flywheel, whether it is on the left or the right.

Ed

Yes, Ed... #1 and #8 are both in their "rightful" places... everything else is jumbled up to suit navistars view of the world..

Lord only knows what will happen when Ford starts marketing their own diesel.... It's already almost a chore to keep gas and diesel straight in the old guys brain...