"4.0 DOG" is available for a personalized plate here in Texas if anybody wants it.
Hello all,
More work is being completed (attempted) today with a simple task on the 4.0 dog motor. I have ever evolving love for FORD, their charities & their mechanical engineering (or what ever they call it over in their universe) Plugs & wires, that's all. I have in the past been able to preform magic with tools in a automotive environment. The driver's side went easy. The passenger's side was just plain ridicules. Having to service anything such as the #3 spark plug, I have to pray for you. Requiring removal of the transmission dipstick, gain entrance going behind & through the rear tire. Among other issues. I'll most likely find other things to lacerate more of my 2 forearms. Ford outdid themselves by placing those open hose clamps for easy access to my arms.
Enough bitching about Ford. I am a fan, but there is a limit. I am willing to preform the required maintenance, however......there must be a specified duration of maintenance intervals between preforming the recommended self sacrifice & washing the YELLOW paint in the driveway. I am discovering that someone had forgot to replace few fasteners along the way back from earlier in this truck's life. The plugs that came out were in recent replacement with their gaps ranging from 0.043" to 0.060". I went for a gap of 0.052". The Bosch Iritium plugs that were recommended from the AZ store seemed to start right up with 5/6 installed with no delay. All except the last task, that was to R&R #3. Which after installation, caused a miss, hummm, this was confirmed by pulling the newly installed plug wire at the coil.
So here I am. With both fore arms scraped & cut up. I'm working from behind the tire, in the front right tire well, laying on the ground. Boy I wish I had a lift. I guess Ford does not give a darn about the "free" world having to attempt their own self sacrifice while even alone doing what it takes to follow their recommended maintenance tasks. HA! I'd be better driving it off a cliff instead,,,,,,not all the way off the cliff mind you. This is where we all here at the Ranger Station come onto the scene. Now I have the scars to prove it. I used to simply pull the entire wheel well out with other spark plug - exhause manifold jobs. Knock on wood Ford, everything going well there. Made things simple. Did I start out this paragraph saying enough complaining about Ford, yea that was it. I'm done....
An existing issue that I have not mentioned before, but a well known one is that the "oil" idiot light keeps staying on now. Not only at idle. Yea, OK. The previous owner did use synthetic oil. Don't know what weight, but the idiot light is the only one currently besides the "motor" light which is new caused from newly purchased (made in china) junk parts. OR. debris on the plug caused while installation. (this my first time for this) and/ or the new suppressor plug wire. Should of checked these parts with an ohm meter (first time for that also). Getting to the point here is that I'm in the same general area for installing a new (idiot light) oil pressure sensor and /or a mechanical oil line for actual entrance into the passenger compartment to measure the oil pressure directly. Heck, how are we going to retire 200 Ford workers (included a few cousins) doing such things as this? Rant, rant.
Well more from the sub shop later today after the sun rises. And a picture of what it looks like with a new badge on the front. Hopefully moving away from the death bu 1000 sharp edges.
-Doug