lol no not yet. im going to try to tackle it today i think im going to make a mess with that grase. and make it worse.

 

Yea, it's a little messy - I just use a long thin screwdriver, gob that di-electric grease on that and shove it in the boot and go around the inside that way.

 

Crap! My build date is Nov/02. I was hoping to have the redesigned heads. Tell me you meant 6/02 build date.

Hey wait a minute, wouldn't they have already been making the 04's in June/03? The new vehicles start to show up here in September. Maybe you did mean 6/02. My fingers are crossed.

 

Nah , like my 98's build date was in 98, it's considered "late". Here's the tag -


So I imagine a late 03 would be tagged in the same way - 6/03 or later. That doesn't necessarily mean you didn't get the updated heads if you have an 03 model. I'm not sure when the update took place exactly. It was in 03 at some point.

 

No one seems to really know when in 03 this was done. There just seems to be a general consensus that it was. Too bad Ford would not come out and tell us. I guess I will just keep my fingers crossed until I know for sure. Thanks jbrew.

 

does anyone have any pictures of how to grease up these coils the correct way. I dont really want or have the 75 bucks for all new coils. my truck runs fine it just has a slight miss every so often i know its something i did becasue it did not do it before the new plugs.

 

No problem. If you change your own plugs, just don't over torque them and you'll be okay.

IMO -Some run into problems when they have one of those third party shops do it, or who-ever, that doesn't know any better and reefs the plugs down w/a half inch breaker bar and a 5' section of steel pipe

That's when one can run into troubles..

 

Holy Crap, I just explained it

Just make sure you get the inside of the boots - Spark jumps around in there so much, you can see carbon trails in a dry boot if you look for it. - $75 is nothing compared to what you metioned earlier - "Taking it to the dealer" - Remember? Hell, that would have run you more than double and you wouldn't have had all new coils. That's why I suggested you get new set. To save on dealer costs and come out of this whole thing w/ new coils to boot

Trying to help yuh man..

 

i know and i thankyou very much for the help jbrew. The only part im confused about is do i put it on the spring what you can see in the boot and does it matter if i get it on the top of the spark plug,

 

My recommendation is you call you friend, brother in-law, neighbor or who ever who knows how to work on cars buy him a twelve pack (or two) to help-do it for you..

 

Dielectric grease the whole boot in the inside. If you insist on using the old boots I would gently separate the boot from the COP. Be carefull not to mangle the spring inside. Make sure the spring is well connected to the COP (slides over the spade connector at the one end), grease the spring all over put an extra glob at the spade connector end, slide the boot back over and connect it to the COP (again being very carefull not to mangle the spring) then put an extra glob in the end of the boot on the spark plug side and install.

I think you should take jbrews advise and get a new set of COP's but that is your decision. I would check all your plugs while you have the COP's off again and make sure that you did not slop anti-seize on them. Changing your plugs is not a hard job but it is time consuming and this is your second shot at it so if I were you I would not want to do it for a 3rd.