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Old 06-10-2012, 07:03 PM
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Changed my spark plugs this morning it took about 5hrs to do. My truck has 93k on it. Only one plug broke. On the drivers side the front 3 broke free then spun right out, no squeaking nothing. The Lisle tool worked as advertised.

I did run a bottle of Sea Foam is about a half tank before changing the plugs.
I did smoke up the neighborhood when I started the truck. PB Blaster smokes when it burns

I have done on the maintance and repairs on the truck since we bought and yet the wife still has no faith in me.
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Definitely have to PB Blaster them and SeaFoam next time I do mine

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Originally Posted by jamie930
Changed my spark plugs this morning it took about 5hrs to do. My truck has 93k on it. Only one plug broke. On the drivers side the front 3 broke free then spun right out, no squeaking nothing. The Lisle tool worked as advertised.

I did run a bottle of Sea Foam is about a half tank before changing the plugs.
I did smoke up the neighborhood when I started the truck. PB Blaster smokes when it burns

I have done on the maintance and repairs on the truck since we bought and yet the wife still has no faith in me.
Nice! Did you use the Sea Foam into the port under the hood like some people mention? Or did you just use fuel additive?
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I put a whole can of SF in my tank recently and no smoke or anything happened....did it work?? Lol
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A can of Sea Foam into about a half of tank of gas. One can treats 26gallons per the directions
I had let the truck sit overnight, it was around 60-70 degrees overnight here. I followed the TSB using PB Blaster. I could have used a breaker bar on a couple of them just to break them free.

On the one that broke I think that if I let it soak longer it might not have broke. The bottom part of the plug was dry, where as the others were wet.
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I put a whole can of SF in my tank recently and no smoke or anything happened....did it work?? Lol
Sea Foam usually only smokes if you put it in a vacuum line iirc
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Originally Posted by Reeds FX4
Sea Foam usually only smokes if you put it in a vacuum line iirc
Correct.
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Just did the 2nd plug change at 163K
No pretreat before
All 8 came out no issues the guess the nickel anti seize worked

I changed the boots this time instead of doing it a few week later
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Originally Posted by Reeds FX4
Definitely have to PB Blaster them and SeaFoam next time I do mine
Why would you need that next time? You have the problem plugs replaced.
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