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Just make sure you blow out the plug well, before removal, or all that dirt will be in your motor. On a side note, I see it was mentioned, Is this the 3valve motor, if so follow the ford procedure to a tee to remove the plugs, and leave them soak two days if needed. If one of those plugs...

Don't use the flush tee. If there is no corosion in the rad drain and refill it and be done. Why cut up a good hose and have a potential for a leak. If you have to flush just pull the lower hose off, and drain, refill and repeat until clean. Most of your modern cooling systems don't need...

You can get pads, that come with spacers to clip on the end of the pad to take up the space from wear. I think raybestos is one. they come with a little bag of clips with numbers on, I think from .oo5"-.020" and you clip them on so the pad is loaded in the direction of rotation. If your noise is...

Just curious, what vehicle is this?????

Originally Posted By: Techniker Toyotas are much more sensitive than Fords. Toyota typically has very low tolerances for throwing an engine code. Fords on the other hand...I generally wonder if they even have a computer in them. I agree though, it is something to look into, but it's not where...

Originally Posted By: mechtech2 Originally Posted By: firefighter I am a little confused, why would a coolant or air temp sensor cause a mis fire on two cylinders only? I belive the P0300 set cause there was more than one miss or momentarily it could not identify the cylinders. but it seems we...

Not to get off track, but what enginge is this? I was not aware of a civic sludger. I know of a few civic 1.6l of that year with well over 200k on and no sludge issues.

I am a little confused, why would a coolant or air temp sensor cause a mis fire on two cylinders only? I belive the P0300 set cause there was more than one miss or momentarily it could not identify the cylinders. but it seems we have a simple two cylinder miss at times. what plugs were put in...

What is a block test?? One good way to check for a head gasket leak is warm up car to operating temp, have pressure tester on so it can maintain some pressure, or pump it up as pressure drops from it cooling off. Remove spark plugs and the next morning look in cylinders with a borascope for...

When was the last time plugs were done on this car??? I am leaning towards ignition. The best way to get a car to miss is up a hill, torque convertor locked, and just squeeze the throttle lightly until the TC is ready to unlock. you want lower speeds not much rpm. that puts the most load on the...

A car that hesitates cold is probably not a head gasket. Oil smelling like gas is probably that, maybe a poor injector, to many short trips, poor pcv system, any number of things. You can use coolant and it will never be seen in the oil without a UOA, seen it so many times, also depends where...

Your right communicating in print is tough. With all you have done has the problem ever changed?? Other than the fuel injector cleaning. I don't think injectors are the problem, why would that cause a hot surge that would go away when you tap the throttle?? This iac you swapped out, there is a...

Originally Posted By: demarpaint The TPS in this van was replaced. It is fixed position, there is no adjustment, voltage readings are within range. Curb idle was set when the IAC spacer plate was installed according to the shop manual procedure. When one of the techs installed the spacer plate...

Has the base idle been set? if so how was it set? was The Tps adjusted properly and lab scoped for glitches?

Originally Posted By: Chris142 Ya it cant get sucked into anything. Ford used to have a plastic plug in the dipstick hole that got pushed into the trans when they installed the dipstick. Lots of guys found that plug during a trans service and got scared but it's nothing to be concerned about...