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All easy to do yourself.Plugs, coils, air filter, fuel filter, belt, flush fluids, oil change.
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All easy to do yourself.Plugs, coils, air filter, fuel filter, belt, flush fluids, oil change.
You don’t need swivels or fancy contraptions all though I’m sure they help. All you need is a medium and a small extension for your socket set. Set the larger extension down the plug well first then click on the ratchet for the back two. If you need more clearance that’s what the little extension is for. I didn’t use any swivels for my 2007. You just have to unclip those two little vacuum lines to the right if you forego the swivel.....about 30 extra seconds lol.
Great tip about the use of copper tubing to scrape the crap out of the head and vacuum it all out..i'll definitely do that.I got the gearwrench socket/extension, and discovered that the magnet was too close to the open end. It wouldn't quite engage the hex on the spark plugs.
Cue large vise, and a bolt to push the magnet a little deeper... Worked great after that.
I also needed to make a debris scraper from a chunk of 3/4 copper pipe, with a tooth cut in one end. Fleet usage saw lots of silicone grease, and the broken chunks of plastic from the coil's harness in the bottom of the hole. Scraper broke the plastic up, and let me vacuum most of it up the pipe. The rest got stuck to the scraper by the excessive silicone grease.
Plugs were a bit of a bear in some cases, but came out fine.
Screwdriver works fine and just get a real spark plug socket with the rubber insert.Great tip about the use of copper tubing to scrape the crap out of the head and vacuum it all out..i'll definitely do that.
They might have made it easier to work on but they didn't make the engine better as far as longevity without repairs. I won't even own it 05 because of the three valve and the cam phasers. I just went out a year ago and bought a super clean low mileage 03 Navigator because I refuse to have the 3 valve and I don't want a 6-speed expensive transmission. I'm not even happy that The Navigators have the stupid over horsepower 32-valve engine. I've always preferred the standard 5.4 2v or 16 v if you will.I did mine in my '11 at 110K. Used a swivel. Took 45 minutes. Much of the bad stuff in the 5.4s had been fixed by '11 and there's a lot more room to get at the plugs. You don't have to move much. Too bad they don't make the 5.4 anymore. They quit making it when they finally had all the problems solved. I also have an '00 with a 5.4. I buy the plugs and let Ford replace them on the '00 because of the position of the back two cylinders. It has 320K on it now. The '11 has 180K. I also changed the plugs on my kid's 07 F-150 4.6. That was harder than the '11 Expedition. I would buy a swivel plug socket and go for it.
They might have made it easier to work on but they didn't make the engine better as far as longevity without repairs. I won't even own it 05 because of the three valve and the cam phasers. I just went out a year ago and bought a super clean low mileage 03 Navigator because I refuse to have the 3 valve and I don't want a 6-speed expensive transmission. I'm not even happy that The Navigators have the stupid over horsepower 32-valve engine. I've always preferred the standard 5.4 2v or 16 v if you will.
There are far more problems with the 3 valve plus you have the annoying plug sticking issue but then again they kind of just traded a plug sticking issue for a plug blowing out issue BUT the plugs blowing out was not nearly as common as the plugs breaking off when you try to remove the three valves on the two piece design.
But they took an engine that was bulletproof and we go 210 to 250,000 miles in almost every chassis they put it in and because of the push for fuel mileage and emissions and all that crap turned it into an engine that is having noises, cam phaser problems, timing chain problems as early as barely over a hundred thousand miles.
So I don't think they got the bugs worked out of the 5.4 at all. I think they overly complicated it and introduce more problems into the design.
2011 5.4 plugs don’t break and never will. No recent variety of 3-valve spark plugs sold by Ford for these engines for any model year break. Problem fixed years ago.