ignition system partial rebuild

Rusty Shackleford · Jan 19, 2011

for a while ive been planning on rebuilding the ignition system due to misfiring thats be coming back and going away and coming back for quite a while. well i ran across a common occurence on my car which is the composite in the BOTTOM of the coil pack cracks and fails. nothing looks bad from a visual perspective. well i can get all the parts i need, coil pack, wires, plugs for around $100 bucks. thats not the problem. the fun part is removing the intake plenum on this fracking FWD motor. ive done it before, and it sucks. i never seem to disconnect everything to remove it. there always seems to be something somewhere still attatched i can never find to remove. either way its gonna be a process which i will photograph and document if anyone wants to see it. should be fun. im predicting a 2 hour job, but it always takes me longer as i have a short temper and take frequent brakes during LOL.

after this will begin the body work. call it a partial restoration

muleman · Jan 19, 2011

Got to ask WHY do you need to remove intake manifold to redo ignition? Don't you have removable fender liners to access plugs etc.?

Rusty Shackleford · Jan 19, 2011

the fender liners remove, yes. but the plugs are back in front of the firewall. sure wish it was that easy.

muleman · Jan 19, 2011

Dang! makes my Prius look roomy. The old cars at least you could work on things.

Rusty Shackleford · Jan 19, 2011

yeah. puttin a new alternator on a 350 Caprice was one of the easier jobs ive done

snow dog · Jan 19, 2011

Man,

this thread is getting interesting,, Can't wait :wow:

Rusty Shackleford · Jan 19, 2011

it'll be something, snowy. thats for sure

snow dog · Jan 19, 2011

Rusty Shackleford · Feb 3, 2011

well its finally happened. ive actually spent over $100 on this car. the only time ive done that before was for tires! im hoping the parts arrive by next Wed. i somehow doubt it though as the 2-3 day shipping was wicked expensive. well as long as it comes by friday ill be happy so i can take one of my days off and bring the car into the shop and do it.

Rusty Shackleford · Feb 4, 2011

OK coil pack is sheduled to arrive tuesday, which is perfect, wires and loose plugs are scheduled for today already! which is awesome. but the pack of plugs is coming USPS with no tracking info yet. sure hope they get here on time...
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snow dog · Feb 4, 2011

they be on time or not

snow dog · Feb 4, 2011

LITH,

please take pictures of this, his fan wants see

Rusty Shackleford · Feb 4, 2011

she wont be there, im bringing it into the shop on one of my days off. its for the better, too, as she wont have to duck from airborne wrenches

ki0ho · Feb 4, 2011

muleman said:
Got to ask WHY do you need to remove intake manifold to redo ignition? Don't you have removable fender liners to access plugs etc.?

because it is a FORD. ....... :yum:

......Jeeps wranglers have lots of room...... :whistling:

Rusty Shackleford · Feb 7, 2011

parts are arriving on time so far. gettin kind of nervous, really hope i dont fuck somethin up

muleman · Feb 7, 2011

Watch you don't break a plug or strip the threads. Can't believe Beasley does not have parts on hand for your car. Been quite a few years since I worked on a Ford. Had to rebuild the auto hubs on the wife's explorer. They had one key to lock the hub and I ended up making the other one from scratch to put it back together.

Rusty Shackleford · Feb 7, 2011

they had the parts. just way too expensive for my pocket! will have to get some gaskets from them, though. but they arent too expeeeeeeensive!

Rusty Shackleford · Feb 8, 2011

its all here!

AAUTOFAB1 · Feb 8, 2011

Post some picks of the engine disassembled :clap:

Rusty Shackleford · Feb 8, 2011

if i must, i will. but i found a shrotcut around ti that will save me TIME!!! but i may replace the intake gaskets anyway as i already bought them, so if so, i will psot pics fo that

sorry for the spelling folks, its getting late and i really dont care :yum:

loboloco · Feb 8, 2011

Hey Rusty, when you have the coil back in remember you have to check it for power. Take the coil wire, hooked to the coil, stick the end on your tongue and have Lith turn the motor over for about 15 seconds.

lowell · Feb 8, 2011

I had the same problem with my 2001 s10 zr2 just not enough roon around the engine to get at what I needed to get at, finaly cought me at the wrong time and the wrong p.lace , traded the damn thing for a 2000 dodge 3500 dooley 4x4 It pulls the gtailer with the sv 200 with no problem has room in the seat for 3 people and if I need to worrk on the engine I've got plenty of room.
I will say it befor all you diehard Ford and Chevy folks get on me about havin a dodge it gets me there and back and it is so ugley no one would steel it

AAUTOFAB1 · Feb 8, 2011

Don't worry about the extra parts they fall off fords all the time :whistling:

Rusty Shackleford · Feb 9, 2011

well she's done. and the coil pack was obviously the problem. cracks in the plastic galore, at least one with a rust stain around it, indicating moisture in the unit. wow. had only one set back where i had two plug wires mixed to the plugs, even though i did the wires one by one, drew a picture, wrote the numbers on the wires, and checked it all 3 times. its gonna happen i guess. she's runnin great!

loboloco said:
Hey Rusty, when you have the coil back in remember you have to check it for power. Take the coil wire, hooked to the coil, stick the end on your tongue and have Lith turn the motor over for about 15 seconds.

AAUTOFAB1 said:
Don't worry about the extra parts they fall off fords all the time

if tis still runnin, whatever fell off obvoiusly wasnt very detrimental to the car :yum:

Rusty Shackleford · Feb 9, 2011

less than 500 miles till 100K, btw :clap:

Av8r3400 · Feb 9, 2011

See, if you woulda bought a diesel, there would be no problems like this.

No coil packs, spark plugs, plug wires, distributor or any such nonsense.

Rusty Shackleford · Feb 9, 2011

the taurus didnt come in diesel :yum:

Rusty Shackleford · Feb 10, 2011

pics of the coil pack cracks, with some seeping rust, too!

Cowboy · Feb 10, 2011

Dayum Rusty I bet that looked like the 4th of July under the ole hood in the dark when she was runnin :yum:

. Good catch . :wink:

Rusty Shackleford · Feb 10, 2011

Cowboy said:
Dayum Rusty I bet that looked like the 4th of July under the ole hood in the dark when she was runnin . Good catch .

would explain the odd smell she's had for the past 6 months :yum:

i recognize the burnin trans fluid smell, the burnin oil smell, the fuel odor when cold, and the leaking coolant smell, but there was one smell i couldnt place, so that musta been it hahahahahaha

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