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now, im no master mechanic by any means...


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but come on...

 

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/IMG_3193.jpg?t=1271572091

 

decided i'd change out spark plugs first to see if it would help the stumble/rough idle on this explorer i got today

 

started on the drivers side rear, worked way up front, passenger side front, worked back to rear. plugs are laid out in that order.

 

figures the last one i get to, and the one thats the biggest son of a bitch to get out, i find what you see to the far right.

 

2.5 hours to change 6 plugs...time for me to start doing my own work again. a couple times i felt like i had no idea what i should do. seems much smoother now, so im happy with that. tomorrow hopefully i can get some other things knocked out.

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Ha, I just did the plugs in the Disco yesterday because it had a slight miss, and it had the exact same plugs and they looked about the same, except i didnt have a missing electrode. I'm guessing they were the original plugs at 64K. The last one I did was also the hardest one to get out, took me about 20 minutes just to get the one out...I had to do 8 though.
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im hoping it went out the port too. i was kinda hesitant to start it wondering if i maybe snapped it off, but then after looking at it for a minute, i was about 95% sure i didnt. started it up, sounded fine, motor doesnt sound like there is anything wrong
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Those are some of the worst plugs. You could almost bet that people had those plugs when they came in to the dealership with a slight miss.

ford dont use bosch plugs :gtfo:

 

id never put those in anything IMO.

 

kind of common if you do put them in a ford. last escort i seen with those plugs in it, had a bent valve from where the electrode fell out

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he didn't say ford used them, he said when a car came into the shop with a miss you could almost bet it had those plugs in it. and he is close, i have changed a ton of those plugs out because they are total junk.
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well i guess i fail. i had stopped at autozone and picked up bosch plugs before i pulled these out. really though, i used bosch plugs in other cars and never had an issue. if these hold up for ~40k miles i'll be fine. im not so worried about it to go through changing all those plugs again...fuuuuuuck that. and its not going to be a DD...i bought it to haul shit to/from lowes, carry my canoe/kayak/bike, and the occasional snow storm weather we get a couple times a year. insurance company asked how many miles a year i'd drive it and i told them to put down 7500 but i think even that is a super high estimate. work is <5 miles away, hoover is 4, lowes is 1, so it wont go very far. knock on wood...

 

motor has 169k miles.

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ugh...maybe if i get real motivated next weekend i'll swap them out. i gotta get the alignment taken care of soon. guy was saying something about the camber plate was installed upside down on this thing, and he couldnt get any adjustment out of it...said that whole long bolt had to come out and part of that suspension disassembled...yay
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ford dont use bosch plugs :gtfo:

 

id never put those in anything IMO.

 

kind of common if you do put them in a ford. last escort i seen with those plugs in it, had a bent valve from where the electrode fell out

 

talkin byers chevy when i worked there

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