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@ANDREWROBISON Sold mine with 154k miles and it still ran like a top. Luckily, the guy that bought it from me lives right around the corner so I can keep an eye on the truck
I know they go for a good while, I just have minor annoying problems with mine that have seemed to come out of nowhere. Like the door ajar light keep beeping while driving and that just started a few days ago. Still trying to tweak some stuff since I did all the suspension in November, still pulls to the left really slowly on the high and a bit when braking. just Annoying thing like also those wheels I got I found out the shop scratched 2 of them on the inside edge and in the barrel and didn't balance them right, I know it's one of those things that people will only see if they look deep into the rims on the barrel but I know it's there and can see it, and it's the principle of the fact that they were new perfect rims that weren't cheap and they just didn't take care at all when mounting. only one wheel has the sticky weights like it should, ad it has like 12 of them, showing they didn't know what they were doing and they should have rotated the tire on the wheel and another has the silver metal weight, one has no weights at all and I find it very hard to believe it balanced out perfectly on its own( but possible). the one with the black sticky weights also has a scratch on the very edge of the inside of the wheel from where they tried to put the metal weight on and then ripped it off. It's just been frustrating with the truck these last few months, and I understand not all of it's the truck it's the shops just sucking at what they do.
Whoa.
You need to go to a different tire shop, stat.
Stat means now.
I only went to that shop because they deal with lifted trucks all the time, but I guess that was a mistake. I just don't trust any shops anymore, that's mostly why I do most of my own work if I can, they will never treat your vehicle as you would. Not sure if you saw my posts when I was getting it done, I drove away and my steering wheel of like 3 inches to the right... Took the guy like 3 tries to get the alignment right and I was standing out there with him after the first one. I just don't know what shop to go to this time and it sucks the money goes down the drain at the other shop because I have to have it done again. The right way.
@CKsBAT I found out while driving the other day I was smelling gas still and I only didn't before was because I had circulation on the ac turned on. So I dove into the driver side ( because I heard a weird ticking on that side since doing the plugs) plugs today to see if they were torqued still and they were just at 25 or if not just under 25ft-lb so I was going through and torqued the first two to 26ft-lb and then I go to the 3 one back on the driver side (pretty sure that's cylinder 7) and the coil pack was cover in dirt that had stuck to the dielectric grease and I'm not really sure how it got in there, but it reeked of gas so I'm thinking that was the problem. Check the plug and it seemed to be in spec but I still had the wrench set to 26ft-lb so not 100% sure on that, so then I took out the plug to make sure the thread wasn't messed up or dirty and they had a different color to them than the one in the very back I also took out to check the differences. I used a toothpick to clean the threads on the plug and they had a bit of grime. So I cleaned everything real good and put them back in and torqued to 26ft-lb I only had time to do the driver side and I then started up the truck and still smelled the gas. So maybe there is another one like that or that cylinder may have messed up threads somehow? I'm like 90% sure I didn't cross-thread any. I put them all to hand tight with the socket before going to torque and I doubt I would have been able to get that far by hand cross-threading. I also blew out the holes with compressed air again to clean anything out. I did that the first time around too so I'm not sure how that dirt could have gotten in there. After I check the passenger side another day if I still smell gas I know which cylinder to go check. the t photo is after I pulled the coil out, then it's after I cleaned it the first time (went and cleaned it better another time before going in), and the last one is the cylinder 7 plug on the left and the right is the one from the last cylinder in the back which is the cylinder 8 which I used to compare. The one that had the dirt in the coil seemed to have a gas colored tint to all the threads. Also every coil I pulled out the clear dielectric grease had a green gas kinda tint to them, not sure if that's normal.
It’s not the threads that’s the problem, check the area where the spark plug seats to the head. That tapered area just below the threads is wear it seats. Sometimes the mating surface inside the head will erode or get gouged which allows gasses past the plug. And if that’s the problem no amount of tightening will make it go away. You’ll have to lap the seat. Otherwise it’s possible the ceramic part of the plug is not tight to the steel body and allow gasses to pass thru.
01-31-2020, 10:07 AM
