Loaded did you recently get new wheels, or do any service on your brakes recently?

Yes i took off the wheels and took off the brakes to see why they were acting up, and put them back on just as they were since the pads were fine

Yea concerning the weird smell and excessive heat, I would pull those hub assemblies off and inspect them for pivoting and scortching. If there are any signs of either of those two replace both sides of the vehicle’s hubs.

For your spongy brakes check your fluid and bleed the air out of them if you are suspecting that there is air in the line. Check your lines and fittings for leaks as well.

Thanks ill start on that and see where i get hung up

@loadedbrush#4901 any luck so far bud?

No, ive got a feeling its gona be a whole can of worms so i havent cracked it open yet, gotta wrangle some funds together before i crack the egg and start taking things apart. just watched a few youtubes to get a plan of attack

my entire passenger underside of the car is covered in oil and it seems to be slowly leaking multiple fluids. i have to put a quart of oil in it every 10 or so days

Oh yea, that will be a bit of work. Lol

What kind of vehicle is it?

@Brenten.Ryan-AZ question for you my brother, have you ever heard of F150s "spitting out" spark plugs?

ooosh

Wouldn't that mean a whole lot of pressure in the heads?

I don't know, it would seem like the logical thing, or do they just back out? Which I would find hard to believe, because the fuel rail is over top the ignition coil.

Like, wiggle out?

I guess I could see that. After all you really just screw them in.

I bought a used F150, fleet vehicle as is. It had a code for the O2 sensor, so I bought it thinking that's an easy fix. So I swapped it out and no more codes. It's running a little rough so I thought spark plugs or ignition coils. Spark plugs are cheaper so I started to change them and I got to bank 1 plug 2 and it's tac wielded in. The others are fine.

Ah so you think prior owner welded them?

Yes sir

That's the picture I could get down inside that hole

On the right side is the tac. I was going to knock it off, but I don't have a stick welder if I need to tac it back in.

What if it means the threads were stripped?

Or cross threaded. Would retapping it fix it? I feel like that would make the plug to loose.

I've never run into this problem.

Yeah it's a tricky one. Do you have contact for the guy you bought it from?

What year is the truck? ‘99 and later?

If so, there were only 4 threads so they popped out every so often.

Ford has a special tap and dye kit specifically for that but it’s 600$ and generic tap kits won’t work.

@RevStench it is a common issue I have heard of with the 4.2 and 4.6’s

There you go, I have a 4.6. It's a 2010. Would a dealership be able to fix the problem? Or do I have to bite the bullet and buy that tap?
The truck is like brand new, and I got it for $7500 so I don't mind putting some money into it.

It would probably be cheaper and less time consuming to have the dealership take care it.

The heads have to come off the the kit in my opinion is too fucking expensive to have a one or 2 time use out of it.

*and the kit

@RevStench but take it to an actual Ford dealership

Word, thanks man. I'm trying to treat this truck well, and I don't really trust some of these little auto shops around me, the actual Ford dealership was my only choice haha.

Good shit man, glad to help with the choice.

Keep us updated with her man

Will do, thank you.

@RevStench hey man if you search around on the web there's a tool that they use to extract those plugs because when you try to remove that it will probably break. There are techniques where you can put something like seafoam or something down in there and let it soak and saturate for a while and try to break it loose but they're notorious for that I would not take it to a dealer will be somebody else out there that can fix it for you for a lot cheaper I got the name of a good mechanic on Bardstown Road at fegenbush way.

Bardstown at Fegenbush is Bill Collins Ford?

Harpers chevron on Bardstown Road across from it. He's great! Been there 30 yrs and reasonable.

Ahh ok, I know where that is.