EXHIBIT 24.3



                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


         THE UNDERSIGNED director of EnPro Industries, Inc. (the "Company")
hereby appoints Richard L. Magee and Donald G. Pomeroy, II, and each of them,
with full power to act without the other and with full power of substitution,
his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, for him and in his name, place
and stead, to execute on his behalf, the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002, and to file the same with all
exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, and grants unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done as fully as to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, and hereby ratifies and
confirms all that such attorneys-in-fact or agents, or any of them, or their
substitutes shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         EXECUTED on the 12th day of February 2003.





                                                         /s/ Joe T. Ford
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                                                Joe T. Ford