Hello everybody! Good day to you! Welcome back! Glad you guys are here! I Am super glad to be here with our favorite 2006 Ford Mustang Gt46 It was just here. uh, not long ago. we uh performed an EVAP system repair on it. We found it had a sticking open purge solenoid and it had caused a P0455 check engine light.

um I did that uh that all that work in a previous video? I Will leave the link to that video down in this video's description. It is here for uh, less critical matters. Today we're gonna do a little bit of Maintenance At 51 440.3 miles on the odometer windows down, it's hot in here. Let's go ahead and nose this thing into the shop.

I've already got some parts unordered. We're going to do some spark plug boots on it. They're a little aged and it had it had once upon a time a random P300 misfire code and we never really did anything to address that P300 code. It's not here and it has sense or has not since returned.

but I remember it was there once upon a time. Since it does have some age to it and a little bit of mileage but mostly age, we're gonna go ahead and just get caught up on some maintenance. I'm gonna do a set of Motorcraft spark plugs and a set of coil boots. There's eight, uh, individual ignition coils, one for each cylinder and I'm going to replace those boots as well.

So this is going to be a very easy repair. Nice, easy, simple video. It's going to go along quite quickly. No difficulty because I've got enough things in the building right now that are highly difficult.

and I just I want something easy? So that's what we're going to do today. That being said, let us pop an easy Hood power her down and let's go ahead and get started. All right. Mustang Bonnet What do you have in store for us down here? See if I can't get back under This Hood What is this? I was just here.

Oh there we go. 4.6 liters of Ford Mustang V8 Power Alrighty, first things first, let's shed uh, some light on the subject here so we can see what we're trying to see surface of the Sun mode engaged Okay So we've got our intake manifold. We've got our V8 engine air box, and snorkel right here. These are our ignition coils.

We've got four on Bank two and then we've got four more over here on bank one. We're gonna pull those coils out, change the boots out on them. We're gonna pop the spark plugs out, take a look at those, see how, see what those are looking like. Probably replace those unless they've uh, they've been replaced already.

Our owner does not know if they've been replaced, but we're gonna find out. So uh, let's get going. Let's get it apart. We're gonna need some seven millimeter socket action and I think these are the the 14 mil or the 916 spark plugs.

Well, first thing we need to do is get these Uh connectors disconnected. These aren't like Toyota connectors where they break as soon as you look at them. These are actually gonna become detached with a relative ease. We've got one bolt for each coil holding it down.

Pull these guys out and set the bolts aside up on the wiper cowl. Very fast and efficient type of operation. here. You just go down the line.

All kinds of working space. I Love it. Oh, you know what? Hang on a second. I Want to blow some of this debris out of here? There's some.

There's a bit of sand and stuff in there. Let me grab a uh, let me grab the air rifle real quick and blow all that stuff up. I'm always getting ahead of myself. Let's get the airline going here.

It's a new feature. I'm so proud of it. Come on. Airline There we go And over here we have the assault blow gun.

Okay, it's just a blow gun that blows air. It's just air not a not an actual weapon. just there fun And it's time for assault blow gun cam. Goodbye dirt.

get in there deep like There you go. Nice. By the way, my assault blow gun is also OSHA approved. Fun fact: All right, let's get this thing set down.

We don't need you anymore for a while. Back to the Mustang Now that we have reduced risk of cylinder contamination with debris, let's get these pulled all the way out here. removing four on each side. We're going to keep the coils because the coils seem to be functioning okay.

I Think and uh, we're gonna remove and replace the boots on the coils I need to pull those bolts out I'm getting ahead of myself again. so far ahead I'm behind. Okay, just like the other side, we've got four connectors, four bolts, four coils. Man, let's Buzz these guys out.

Now when we put those in, we got to take a little bit of care to not over torque these because the uh, the female side on the head where these bolts uh, thread into is actually very thin material and it can crack and break. And if it does, then you have a hard time securing the coil. And if you have a hard time securing the coil, it can vibrate and come out and then cause, uh, cause a misfire and we don't want to do that. We're trying to prevent and reduce misfires the last one.

Come here. Yeah. Overall, these look okay, but uh, we're gonna change them today here. Let's take a look down inside of those spark plug holes real quick and see see what it's looking like in there.

Yeah, I Do see some debris down there? Yeah, they've all got a bit of debris in them. Let's blow those out too. That way, when we pull the plugs out, That dirt cannot fall down into the cylinder. There we go.

Okay, let's get these spark plugs extracted and see what these guys are looking like. Electron ratchet with the 916 swivel spark plug socket coming in and an extension gives us more room to work with see what we have going on here. All right. Motorcraft Plug: These appear to be the originals, not looking terrible.

A little bit more light there. Yeah, these are okay, but at 50k, couldn't hurt to change them out. That's what we're doing in the second one. back and we're gonna run down the line.

That one's in a similar condition. Good. Next, that one wasn't as tight as the. uh.

that. number two? indeed. Maybe these have been out before. Yeah, that one looks okay.

That was tight and same here on that fourth plug. Pretty decent. All right. let's pour down four to go.

Let's change sides over here. going a little bit closer on this one and same as the other side. We'll just run down the line. Dig all these guys out.

Missed it. Unclick? All right. these come out there. It goes.

That one's kind of got a little bit of carbon built up in there. A little different than the others. Not much. I'll take note of that cylinder for later in my head.

Spark Plug Number Seven: Yeah, a little bit of carving on that one. Too unclear. No. There we go.

Alrighty, four plugs removed. Waiting game for now. I Don't have my new ones just yet, but when they get here, you guys are gonna be the first to know. Don't go anywhere.

Be right back. All righty. I Return I Have some components to install. Delivery drivers have delivered, we got our stuff, let's power the light back on.

There we go. and uh, we're basically going to reverse procedure on these spark plugs, Get these guys installed. We're going to take all these coils over to the bench, swap out the rubber boots and the Springs inside of those. That's the contact point and then, uh, we'll get those guys reinstalled.

We'll fire this thing up, see how she runs. Now there is one thing to note about these replacement spark plugs. If we look at the end here, we can see how it's like a closed, uh, closed electrode. They differ us very, very much so from the normal and average design and style.

We've got this long shank right here that reaches down into the cylinder head and of course I already mentioned the uh, the closed electrode. I Don't know why uh Ford felt the need to design those in such a fashion. It is what it is. that's how they're built.

I'm not going to question. it seems kind of like Reinventing the wheel, but I speculate that they did it to accommodate the cylinder head design. I Think makes sense. Anyway, let's get this thing tightened down.

There we go. linkage and I'm just gonna run down the line just like how we removed them, starting it by hand, using the electron tool to speed up the threading process. Final clicks: I'll do them with four cranks this time. I Did something the other day with auditor wrench and you guys weren't happy about that.

So I'll torque wrench these ones. Plus you know being a Ford motor can be a little sensitive. Just kidding for guys. Just kidding.

We love you. That guy down right there. All right. there's four.

Alrighty, so we are looking for 25 foot pounds of torque. Let's get these guys clicked in. Oh yeah, no. I'm not using anti-seize ever.

Did you not put anti-seize on spark plugs? I Don't know why everyone is compelled to put anti-seize on spark plugs. You shouldn't do it. It acts as a lubricant on the threads and when you attempt to torque things with a lubricant, it actually Alters the amount of delivered torque to that. Fastener and they can very easily be over torqued.

Oh, all right over here on the driver's side, we're going to repeat the exact same procedure: Get these guys started, thread them down, torque them down. then we'll move on to those coil boots briefly. Next one, drop that one in. I'm taking care to not touch any of the the built up grease that's on here or the dirt.

just so I Don't knock any of it loose and have it fall down into the hole because even though I blew it off, there is still some encrusted, uh, contaminants sitting around and there you go. There we go. That one's threaded next. Last one told you guys this is going to be a super easy job.

Beautiful. Where's my clicking wrench? There we go, right? Yeah, let me reach in here some get some proper angles for myself. clickage next. there we go and the last one finalized.

Click right there. Beautiful. I Like it all right. Next up, let us collect all of our coils.

We've got four right here, other four over there, but I don't have any more hands so we'll go ahead and bring these over to the bench. We'll change out the boots over here, huh? Let's fetch our other four for this side. There we go. Okay, got eight coils lined up.

let me get the box of uh, coiled roots and we'll get these things disassembled and uh, get the boots replaced. All right. now for the elephant in the room. I'm sure you guys have noticed this already.

these are not Motorcraft spark plug boots. Uh, reason being uh was cost. the individual boots I think were 18 each and this entire kit was maybe I think 45 bucks. Something like that, they're the same ones.

they're the black boots. Uh, let me back up. you get brown booted four boots. and you get black booted ones.

This particular design happens to be the black boots if remember he serves I believe the brown boots are gonna have like a angle to them like so and these are just the straight on boots. Anyway, we've got eight boots, eight of the little spring contacts. all we need to do to replace these and change them out to be able to open off. pull the spring out.

Actually, you know the Springs can probably stay. but since I have new ones I'll change them, stick that guy in bottom it out, kind of give it a Twist so it threads on. They would just insert the new boot and we're good to go. I think there's a reference Direction on these? Yeah yeah, see that little uh little raised portion there.

So these are going to go on 90 degrees to the left. Okay, one is done. Numero dos repeating same procedure: Pull the boot, pull the spring, new spring, bottom it out, give it a Twist and new boot to the left. it's three.

You guys get the gist of it. I'm gonna go ahead and speed this up through the rest of these in super high speed lightning fast motion and then we'll get back over to the car, get this stuff installed looking good all right. I Like it. Eight new boots on the OE coils.

Let's go ahead and run these things back to our engine. Get them installed, bolted down, free stuff, lubricated, dialectically sealed, and uh, and get this car back in action. Let's see. these guys can go right there.

for now. Where's my grease? I Need my grease? Okay, we're looking over here at the passenger side again. Got some dielectric lubricant? We're gonna give a little squirt down inside of that boot right there. What this is that's actually not conductive.

It's not designed to, uh, promote spark. It's there to prevent, uh, moisture. Ingress And uh, keep the spark from escaping at the bottoms of the boots because it's very hard to contain 30 to 50 000 volts of electricity. Get that guy down there.

There we go. Plug that one in next. there's number Four down in your home. All right, it's four coils installed.

Got four more bolts of the seven millimeter headed variety. Let's get these guys started and we will, uh, lightly run those down with my quarter inch driver. Foreign. and again, we don't torque these to the Moon Just a little bit like halfway to the Moon Plug that guy in snap.

Click. That one's good. And finally, there we go. Okay, four installed.

let's go over to the driver's side, get the last ones, then we fire this bad boy up right about here. All right, we're gonna do this set a little bit more efficiently. We're gonna Lube all the orifices at one time and then insert the units. Start with the one on the back and what do we do? What are we doing here? What have I done I'm not.

It's not going in the hole. What's this problem? Hang on. We'll get that one later. I've got a handful of lubricated coils.

These things in there next. Go into your home. please. There you go.

That one's in good. There we are. Let's open this one in the back. Oh my uh.

my dangly bit fell out. Hang on here we're We've made some kind of an error. Give that a twist. It has to seat over top of a see a little Spade connector looking thing in there.

It's got to slip over that. This one must not have done it a little harder and twist. Wow. that'll make it.

Go in there we go. we're cooking. No, no we're not. We're not cooking at all.

This one's not wanting to go on I don't know it's stuck on the plug. Give it back. What have I done there and my Lube's all smeared gross. You have to twist this one like extra hard in and stay in.

really. flip it around, see what it does, that's better. Okay I'm trying again and again. Third time's a charm.

more. Lube Third time's a charm. Sure, why not? Let's get that guy seated. Get down there.

There we go. That's better. Good all right. Let's get the uh, the four coil bolts installed and bolt these things down to the Head and get them started by hand first so we don't cross thread them and ruin the ruin the cylinder head because that would not be okay.

That's all four. A couple forward clicks here. Give that back that cylinder. What are you doing to me? cylinder.

Why? All right. All right, let's get these things plugged in. Let us restocking Z engine. see how she runs.

There we go. That's one, two, three, four connected, four on the other side, it's connected. Let me get my goodies out of here and we'll go ahead. All right, All my tools and debris has been cleared.

Let us restock. The beginning is in stock in sequence. now. Live good, good, good, very nice.

It's nice and smooth. like I Like it all right. I'm closing. Let's go ahead and fetch the scan tool.

I'm just going to pull up a misfire date on this thing and just make sure we don't have any random multiples that are showing up. I Think we're good to go. This makes me happy. Nice easy job.

I Like nice easy jobs. Scan tool powering on. beep. Here we go see what we've got going on here.

No check Engine light. This is good. Sometimes when you unplug components it can. It can kick the light to come on we have a glare from the light.

Let's turn that off. Goodbye light. There we go. All right.

Database loading satellites linking up in outer space. Tempting Automatic ID Come on, begin. Auto ID Now please. I'm impatient.

Let's go. Um. data display. That's what we want Kion blah blah.

Yep, that's what we're doing and misfire data. Let's go in there and take a look. How are we doing on our misfire data? Come on man, you're super slow scanner. What are you doing? Okay, let's see what we've got.

Zero Zero zeros. We have no misfires here. Very good. but you know what? I did just see right here at the very top says DTC Count one, see that singular trouble code no light I Wonder what it is? What if it's a P1000 drive cycle incomplete.

Remember the other day we cleared the codes for that EVAP System memory resets or memory codes continuous codes. Yep. show me the P1000 and the survey says Booyah Awesome Cool P1000 OBD2 System checks Incomplete. That is fine.

We saw no misfires I Think this thing is good to go All right guys. I'm gonna go ahead and get my illuminators off this thing and take it for a quick spin around the block, get her parked, get it returned back to its home, and I'll move on to something else. So that being said, I'm gonna go ahead and use this opportunity right now to close this video out and I'll do some things as always by thinking each other. One of you to watch this video.

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