Any Ford truck owners?

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#26
I bought my wife a chevy cruise. It will be the last chevy I ever buy. It's been a piece of junk.
 
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hog88 said:
Wow, had a 76 F-250 with a 351 and you could almost stand between the engine and wheel well to work on it.
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I have an '87 F250 with a 460 in it. You could have a party for four in that bay. While smaller in this newer truck it still has room to get around. The problem lies in the spark plug/head design. The plugs are odd and have an extended electrode (see below). The plugs will almost always break off at the extended electrode point. You have to have a special extraction tool to remove the old portion of the plug (I borrowed one). The tool literally pushes the center part of the electrode down into the cylinder. This makes room for tool to make threads into the part that is left to extract it. It takes a good hour per cylinder to change out a plug.

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InVOLuntary said:
I have an '87 F250 with a 460 in it. You could have a party for four in that bay. While smaller in this newer truck it still has room to get around. The problem lies in the spark plug/head design. The plugs are odd and have an extended electrode (see below). The plugs will almost always break off at the extended electrode point. You have to have a special extraction tool to remove the old portion of the plug (I borrowed one). The tool literally pushes the center part of the electrode down into the cylinder. This makes room for tool to make threads into the part that is left to extract it. It takes a good hour per cylinder to change out a plug.

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No 5.4L in this guys future then.
 
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#34
I am still trying to figure out the ecoboost engine and whether it would be a bad buy or not. does anyone have one in theirs since 2011, or just the v8
 
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RollinVol said:
I am still trying to figure out the ecoboost engine and whether it would be a bad buy or not. does anyone have one in theirs since 2011, or just the v8
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What do you plan on using it for, that is key to any advice. Going to be doing much towing/hauling?
 
#36
#36
My son recently bought a 2010 F150 with the 4.6l V8. It may not have the power, but it's not the maintenance nightmare that the 5.4l is. The 5.4s also have problems with the cam phasers.
 
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MG1968 said:
My son recently bought a 2010 F150 with the 4.6l V8. It may not have the power, but it's not the maintenance nightmare that the 5.4l is. The 5.4s also have problems with the cam phasers.
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It was my understanding that Ford fixed that problem somewhere along the line. I have 156,000 on mine and other than the plugs it's be awesome. I have a buddy and he's had problems with his intake manifold (plastic) on his 4.6l.
 
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#38
I've driven a Tundra for the last 15 years. No plugs, no repairs, no anything other than normal maintenance. A coworker owns a F-150 from the same year and he has to use an after market GPS for his speedometer because his dash board quit working and it will cost nearly $1000 to fix it.
 
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hog88 said:
What do you plan on using it for, that is key to any advice. Going to be doing much towing/hauling?
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Not much towing and hauling really much at all. Barely any. I may buy an aluminum fishing boat in the future.
 
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RollinVol said:
Not much towing and hauling really much at all. Barely any. I may buy an aluminum fishing boat in the future.
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It should be ok. I wouldn't plan on getting over 150K on the engine. They are really good performance engines just not meant to last the longest. They're twin turbo so repairs could be expensive if lost a turbo or something. I wouldn't do the Ecoboost personally but I'm not the easiest guy on trucks.
 
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RollinVol said:
Not much towing and hauling really much at all. Barely any. I may buy an aluminum fishing boat in the future.
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Buy it. Nothing wrong with it. It has the towing power (hp and tq) of the V-8 with the mpg of a V-6

The talk of 100k miles and turbo issues is BS.
Maintenance is key.

Also a side note: the spark plugs blowing out was on the 2 valve engines with the heads with only 3 threads for the plugs. This was changed in 02 I believe. Ford fixed it after the lightnings were shooting plugs out under boost.
 
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Obsessed said:
Buy it. Nothing wrong with it. It has the towing power (hp and tq) of the V-8 with the mpg of a V-6

The talk of 100k miles and turbo issues is BS.
Maintenance is key.

Also a side note: the spark plugs blowing out was on the 2 valve engines with the heads with only 3 threads for the plugs. This was changed in 02 I believe. Ford fixed it after the lightnings were shooting plugs out under boost.
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Nothing talking about blowing the plugs out. Talking about them not coming out when you try and remove them. Trust me, I just got through doing it.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
Nothing talking about blowing the plugs out. Talking about them not coming out when you try and remove them. Trust me, I just got through doing it.
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I've never heard of that. Only thing that I can think of is someone changing them when the heads were hot or a previous plug change they were cross threaded.
 
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Obsessed said:
I've never heard of that. Only thing that I can think of is someone changing them when the heads were hot or a previous plug change they were cross threaded.
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No, very common in the 5.4l. They even developed a special tool to extract them. Google it, youtube it. I had never heard it either until I had a cylinder go down. I have a mechanic that works for me. He said pick up a plug. I picked up 8 ND he said you'll not want to change them all. I said you're crazy. Why would I want to change just one? He laughed and said, you'll see. All but one broke off as I removed them. Like I said earlier, the dealer charges around $1,000 to change them. I was turned down by several shops, and I found a couple that would do it for $600. I just borrowed the tool and did it myself. It took about an hour per cylinder.

Here's the tool:

https://www.ryderfleetproducts.com/...aign=product&gclid=CKqZtPr00tMCFRaSfgodQPcLcw
 
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#45
We have this for sale at my store. I wish I could buy it.
 

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InVOLuntary said:
I have an '87 F250 with a 460 in it. You could have a party for four in that bay. While smaller in this newer truck it still has room to get around. The problem lies in the spark plug/head design. The plugs are odd and have an extended electrode (see below). The plugs will almost always break off at the extended electrode point. You have to have a special extraction tool to remove the old portion of the plug (I borrowed one). The tool literally pushes the center part of the electrode down into the cylinder. This makes room for tool to make threads into the part that is left to extract it. It takes a good hour per cylinder to change out a plug.

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Merciful Lord.

My shoulders and neck tense just at the thought of that. Half my toolbox would be in driveway.
 
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KSPVol36 said:
2006 F150 Lariat CrewCab, 90k miles, 5.4L. It's the fifth Ford truck I've owned, but it won't be the last...
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So....I just bought a 2013 Ford F-250 Lariat, Crew Cab, 4x4 with only 33k miles... Now I have to sell the one described above. It's also a 4x4, but I'm moving up to the diesel. Makes Ford truck #6!
 
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