MustangWill

My mechanic was busy but he was able to squeeze in some time to pull my codes. (Timing chain adjustment and waterpumps along with maintenance on other cars. Dude's got his books filled for the next week and his partner's outta town.) It's a mis-fire in cylinders 6 & 8, along with something about needing to replace my coils...... Shazbot.

Sigh....

I think what Imma do is pull the coils, clean the plugs, and then try swapping both the coil boots and the coils. Sad part is, none of the auto shops read codes because of some new emission law or something. Damn California.

You guys really think that's a concrete sign that I'm in need of new coils? If so, *****************!111!

Yeah, I'm just a bit more than annoyed right now...

Frankenstang211

buy new spark plugs, new coils, and do this yourself. the spark plug should be about 2 bucks each, the coils 50. Borrow the code reader. pull the coils, look down there, bet you'll see some happy coolant grinning back at you. clean that **** out, put in the new spark pplugs (gap them right, I believe .054inch). Use the old coils first...replace them. (Note - if there's no coolant in there at all when you pull this stuff, then yeah, maybe the coils are toast). However, I'm assuming coolant was in there. Put the old coils back in, clear the SES code, and start er up. If no code comes back, you're golden...return the two coils, and buy your own code reader with that money.

MustangWill

Idiotic question of the day. SO far I've done the driver's bank spark plugs. Spark Plug #8 had what looked to be a mixture of coolant AND engine oil covering it. It looked like coolant towards the top and then engine oil towards the bottom.

I probably should be weary, right?

v8.GT Stang

+1 i changed mine