Yea, ive had a Horrible start to the new year. Firs a week ago it was my TL's Tranny. Monday it was the tranny on my new (just out of warranty) 4 wheeler. Today trailering it home, i blew a spark plug out of the head on my expedition whish is now in need of a new cylinder head

I really think i ned a vacation to get away.

so if i dont have any new news on the TL im working on other things but i will hopefully know something soon.
Well off to rent a car for the week/end

Sorry for venting

 

Damn sorry to hear.

 

Holy crap.. and you just got the Expedition, too.

You're having a streak of bad luck. Sorry, Kris.

 

damm dude, sorry to hear that!

 

damn sorry to hear... btw howd the tranny go on the atv?

 

Yea reall bad luck. The 4 wheeler i believe it was caused (havent riped it apart yet) buy the clutch system on the belt drive???? ill hopefully find out later

 

how did you blow a plug out of the cylinder head?

 

?? my guess is that it wasnt properly torqued or was cross threaded when they were installed (previous owner) I was (hopefully) able to fix it by using a heli coil. find out tomorrow when i start it.

 

damn sorry to hear that... that sucks

 

Sorry to hear that man- keep your chin up

 

Well got the truck fixed. So now its back to searching for tranny parts. Hopefully monday ill order the tranny

 

good luck ,sorry to hear

 

Is that the 5.4 triton v8? My friend had the same problem in his Navigator. Happened to him about five times already, same plug and coil pack on the number 8 cylinder..... recall maybe?

 

yea 5.4 and it was (according to the manual) #3 which was a total pain on the passenger side which happens to be located under the cowl/firewall.
The plugs are a biotch to change on these things. Some GENIUS decided it would be a good thing to stick them UNDER the fuel rail, so that has to be removed just to get to the stupid things. THEN they mount half the engine under the cowl/firewall so that it makes it even more difficult to get to. And of course the engine is OHC so it makkes it even more tricky to get a (with socket)8" socket and extension under teh cowl and into the deep spark plug socket hole. I think they blow out because mechanics have a hard time installing them properly with out cross threading them or not tightening them properly due to said GENIUS above

got the 4 wheeler running too. It was the belt. part of it was destroyed and parts of it were in the clutch system. A little dissassembly and got all the fragments and its up and running

 

2-15 major problems in ftssyms1's garage that would make most men cry

2-18 everything is back up and working just fine - 'cause he fixed it himself

YOU ARE THE MAN!

 

Sorry to hear about the problems, but looks like you resolved them quickly and inexpensively.

I do know what you're talking about on the spark plugs. My buddy has an 03 Ford F-150 w/ the Triton V8, the 5.4L., probably the exact same engine as yours. I did a tune up on his truck and it took 3.5 hours to do the spark plugs (8) b/c you have to pull the rail and the injectors and the coil packs and then use 3 different extensions and a swivel socket to get the rear spark plugs out. At least you're back on the road and able to concentrate on the more important things, i.e. a 6-speed tranny swap.

 

dam man looks like im not the only one with the bad luck...good luck man hope things get better