Yes, but you chuckled when I said Canadians are weird because you know it's true There's something in there air up there.

 

no one who really knows about the spark plug replacement job will reply with a real knowageable thread oh well thanks for your help

 

Besides what I quoted from the Haynes manual for torque of the sparkplugs of 7.1 - 8.75 foot pounds there is a common response of hand tighten the plugs and then a 1/8" to 1/4" turn with a socket. Doesn't sound like much, but it doesn’t take much to destroy the integrity of the threads in the aluminum heads.

Have you tried calling a local Ford dealer’s service department and asking for their recommendation?

 

This whole bit about a F150 being trailered after a rearend accident sounds fishy to me.

There only seems to be one of two possibilities.

1) The fuel cutoff switch did it's job and no one there knew how to reset it (or the tow truck driver played dumb).

2) The import was so low that it pushed/broke the rear axle out of alignment.

That being said , the import was only able to move to the side of the road. Being the good tow truck driver (?) he picked the classiest ride to tow first.

 

spark plug torque is 13 ft.lbs at least for a 03 5.4l (ford shop manual).

I rolled my truck on icy roads at about 90 kph (around 55 mph)where it rolled twice and layed upside down over night before being towed away. Next day pulled plugs and cranked over to make sure the engine would not hydrualic and then started it. I then drove it out of the shop.

The truck was written off and I bought it back after it sat in the compoud for a month. I then started it up and drove it up on a truck bed to haul it home, so fords can't be that weak. BTW there were a number of roll over's this winter due to freezing rain and a lot of other people wern't so lucky.

As for Canadians being wierd, if that means having common sense and not arguing about childish things with no proof then i guess we must be.

O by the way we still build the fastest production truck in the world

 

Where's my Midol and Xanax?

 

hell i backed into a tree goin about 15mph and all it did was either broke one of the clips on the plastic or bent the bumper just enough where it wouldn't clip on on the outside you cant see ANY damage so i couldn't see an import movin at all if it bent the frame on one of these things,but i've seen some weird sh*t that idve never believed if didn't see it and wasn't high at the time

 

Straight from my 2000 Ford manual for a 4.6 or 5.4:

9-20 N.m which equates to 7-15 ft. lbs.