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Re: 04-08 F150 spark plugs
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2012, 09:37:24 AM »
I guess if you take them out early, like 30,000 or less and replace them, it is not "such" a biotch. Get them out before they get extreamly carboned up in the threads.
I felt like a one legged cat trying to bury a terd on a frozen pond!

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Re: 04-08 F150 spark plugs
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2012, 04:47:28 PM »
Yes it is a big deal. I am having mine done at the stealership. They said they do more than anyone on the west coast and only one time had to take engine apart. They want 450.00 which includes 2 broken removals and then 1/2 hr. for each additional one. I am anticipating 8 broken was wondering what other people experienced. Yes the 4.6 is not involved only the 5.4. I guess Ford did have a better Idea to get you to spend a lot of money.
where did you get em for 450? my wifes truck is in need and my local stealership said 800! :yike:

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Re: 04-08 F150 spark plugs
« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2012, 06:49:06 PM »
My dad had his done last year and I want to say it was around $600 due to the difficulty of having them removed. This was at the dealer down by Boeing Field...the name skips my brain right now.

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Re: 04-08 F150 spark plugs
« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2012, 10:31:07 PM »
Is a huge pain, books at over 2 hrs. and yes they do break, in fact Ford makes a "special tool" to remove them after they break.
My brother has an 02 and his spark plugs stripped the holes. The shop he took it to bought a specialty tool from ford so they could fix it. What a pain.

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Re: 04-08 F150 spark plugs
« Reply #19 on: February 11, 2012, 11:39:28 AM »
That sounds like the F150 spark plug blowout problem, which was before the problem of plugs breaking off. Plugs pulled the threads right out of the head.

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Re: 04-08 F150 spark plugs
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2012, 12:37:05 PM »
I got mine changed at Titus-Will ford in Tacoma, I think it was 450 plus the plugs. Had probably 95k on them and they got them all out without no breakage. I was holding my breath. Now I am holding my breath because since they did it I smell gas in the cab. It did that a long time ago and it was a couple sticking injectors. It was another bad ford design. The good thing is they did extend the warranty on the injectors to 100k if that is it.
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Re: 04-08 F150 spark plugs
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2012, 12:48:11 PM »
I like my F-150, but this thread is why my next truck will be a Chevy.

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Re: 04-08 F150 spark plugs
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2012, 02:28:18 PM »
I got lucky   :sas: on my 05, at 65,000 miles one of the plugs melted and went into my block. So I never had to change them, I just went ahead and bout a new motor for 7,000.00   Never been so pissed in my life... Warranty expired 30 days prior...


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Re: 04-08 F150 spark plugs
« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2012, 08:56:31 PM »
I've always been a ford truck man but that would suck. :yike:
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Re: 04-08 F150 spark plugs
« Reply #24 on: February 15, 2012, 09:49:24 PM »
the new fords don't blow the plugs out . the deep tip design carbons in the head bellow the threads . if you carbon flush the night before and change them on a cold engine . they   take about two hours  to change.If one breaks lisle makes a tool that works well to remove the broken plug twenty to thirty minutes a hole.

 


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