What did you do to your Ranger today? (Part Deux!)

[youngbuckwithapickuptruck]

I want to get an older econoline van and i can just imagine anytime I want to access a part under the hood, ill be running back and forth 10x over from the tiny hood to the interior dog house trying access a part from different angles, lol

 

[Rick W]

Seriously: Ford!

FIFY

 

[scotts90ranger]

It's just wrong that the 4 cylinder is the hardest to change spark plugs on... Seriously. Why Ford?

It's just the intake side spark plugs, the exhaust side plugs are cake and honestly the second set is just "extra" so doesn't matter for the most part until the exhaust side fails and you get misfires...

 

[youngbuckwithapickuptruck]

did i read these correctly? (1 is towards the front of the truck)
-SP1 looks good

-SP2 lightly white ashy
-- failing headgasket, oil or coolant

-SP3 tip missing
-- discoloration say lean

-SP4 tip missing, dirty brown threads
--im worried that i dropped debris in the cylinder trying to finagle the old SP out and the new SP in.

the passenger spark plugs were swapped out with older (better condition) plugs by a friend who performed a compression test for me a few months back.

i do know my truck sips about 1qt oil every 3k mi, and my coolant is low.

 

[scotts90ranger]

cylinder 1 is front and they go in order. I don't think I would read too much into those plugs as they look factory maybe... how many miles? These things have a tendency of cracking the heads between the valves which lets coolant into combustion while running or you just have a leaking hose somewhere...