The 3.0 Duratech engine has been around since 1996 or so. It was part of Ford's earliest attempts at a 4 valve per piston V6 in the states. While it was state of the art in 1996 it's really showing its age and 180,000 miles is a lot of miles on one of those engines. They are also very notorious for leaking oil everywhere once they get over 30 or 40 thousand miles.
They are also a "throw away engine" when they are worn out or suffer a major breakdown. The cost of overhauling one or even digging into one is extremely high. Pulling the heads is in the $2000+ range ($3000+ at a dealer) of a repair - and that's with only putting in a set of head gaskets. A few years back my mom's Taurus with the Vulcan 3.0 engine (2 Valve engine) had the water pump fail and replacing the water pump, pulling the heads and having them milled only ran in the $800 range by a small independent shop. They said had her car had the Duratech engine they would have told her it was totalled due to the cost of the doing the same repairs.
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