Need info/guidance on my 06 f150 with 4.6 v8
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Need info/guidance on my 06 f150 with 4.6 v8
I have had my truck for almost two years now. I bought it when it had 160k miles on it, and as of today I hit 203k. I'm not super hard on it but it seems as if the people who had it before me were. I have been blowing spark plugs out left and right, and I'm tired of it. All of the mechanics local and non local that i talk too tell me i should look into either selling it, or putting a crate motor in it. I dont want to sell it because it was my very first truck. What would/have you all done?
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Have the plugs been installed using a helicoil? If so, that is why they continue to blow out. You need to use a different method.
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I find it interesting that you're blowing plugs out of a 2006. That's not the vintage noted for spitting plugs out. (The 1997 to 2001 trucks were.) That said, the only way I can surmise that plugs are blowing out is that somebody over-torqued them when they put them in. Aluminum heads require proper use of a torque wrench when putting plugs in. Maybe the previous owner had a few too many Red Bulls?