Ford Spark Plug Problems?

My brother blew two plugs out of his 5.4 V8. And not at the same time.

CloudDriver - thanks for the link - greatly appreciated - great photos - they will be helpful.
Dave

The picture problem is the result of a money grab by Photobucket. I re-posted the pictures in this thread.

dtlockard wrote:
I've been reseaching the replacement of my 2005 E350 V10 sparkplugs and came on this thread. Problem is instead of the photos of the project I get the following:

"3rd Party Hosting has been temporaily disabled. to unlock your account visit: photobuc500ket.com/p"

Anybody know if this means that I need a photobucket account or that the photo poster's account is inactive for some reason.

Thanks for any help with this - I would really like to see those photos!

Photobucket has decided that they want a large amount of money to display the photos members have stored on their site. Many like me have refused to pay this ransom to have our pictures displayed on forums like RV.net. That is why you see the message you are referring too.

I've been reseaching the replacement of my 2005 E350 V10 sparkplugs and came on this thread. Problem is instead of the photos of the project I get the following:

"3rd Party Hosting has been temporaily disabled. to unlock your account visit: photobuc500ket.com/p"

Anybody know if this means that I need a photobucket account or that the photo poster's account is inactive for some reason.

Thanks for any help with this - I would really like to see those photos!

This detail was a great help. Thanks

Wrench looks nice. I have 1/2" and 3/8" drive torque wrenches, both beam and click. My plan is to run the 3/8 click against the 3/8 beam and see if it clicks at 15-ft-lb. I store both clickers with the torque setting backed off, so hopefully the 3/8 will click right.

Saw some coils on Amazon at reasonable prices too. Reasonable if $400 in plugs and coils is "reasonable." I guess Coil On Plug/COP is a good concept, but like MPI with 10 cylinders to feed, the price tag gets big fast.

JD - I did check the gap on each of the new plugs. They were all 53 or 54 thousandths, so I did no adjustments.

I bought this torque wrench for the job as I didn't have an inch-lb torque wrench.

I forgot to mention above that all of the coils that came from Summit Racing were Motorcraft, exactly the same as the one I bought from the dealer but $30 less cost each.

CloudDriver wrote:
Not quite sure how to answer your question, but I'll give it a go.

That was a Great Answer and Good News besides! It squares with that shop saying "You won't have any trouble."

Did you have to adjust gap on the new plugs, or just check them? I hear several of the newer plug types are pre-gapped and should NOT be adjusted.

Sounds like the take away's from this thread are:

Definitely can be done
Engine COLD
Don't hesitate to move things for better access
Blow the plug areas clean
Mostly common hand tools
Have a good socket/extension

I think I'll get that socket/flex/extension. I have both "beam" and "click" style torque wrenches. I always liked "beam" because they don't require calibration, but I've come to appreciate "click" since they require less "throw" to reach torque. Let alone not having to stay in position to look at it!

Yes. Thank you very much for the info.