I just hate paying it because how do you know that they even broke it?

 

Paid $380 at Firestone. Drop the truck off one night, and they soaked the plugs until the next morning. Then if a plug broke they charge by the labor hour. But luckily none of them broke, and my truck runs so much better!

 

My dad will be paying $180 at a ford dealer. but i work there so we are lucky.

 

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2004 F150 5.4 136,500 miles, bought the truck 4 weeks ago. Original owner told me "spark plug has never been changed" started running B12 on the gas tank to clear some of the carbon, order plugs SP-515 from rock auto at $9.95 each, auto kroil from work and a 9/16 spark plug socket from advance auto parts.
Saturday morning remove battery, computer and COP`s soaked with aero kroil and let it work overnight. Sunday Morning "loose" all 8 of them a 1/4 turn and let them soak for another 30 minutes. Blow out the excess kriol and remove all 8 without breaking them, TSB says not to apply more than 33 lbs/feet of torque mine "pop" at 50-55 lbs/feet worked them back and forth a few times and the rest was easy. Coat the new ones with permatex anti-seize and torque them to 25lbs/feet truck is running like a champ. A local miami ford dealer quote me $450 for labor and $192 for parts and incidentials (broken plugs)

Ignore the crazy hype take your time use the right tools and enjoy the satisfaction. (and savings)

 

Team Ford has since changed their pricing on plug changes. Now it's $595 period. If they break one or all the price stays the same. Talked to them about doing mine but I think I'm going to tackle it myself.

 

Like I said, as well as many others, there are detailed instructions on how to replace the spark plugs on your own. Anything over $200 is a rip. Hell I changed my plugs myself at 150,000km. Every single plug broke, and one was even stripped. I followed Kozal01's advice and received further instructions from Goldteam. Several hours of my time on a weekend afternoon and I saved a s**tload of money. I bought a headache rack with the money I saved. There should be a thread called "Whatcha gon' do wid dat money you saved?"

 

I changed my plugs last week and all went well. I still have to get one out because I was not able to remove it. Just not able to get a good position to get torque on it. Since the plugs still looked great after 80k miles I am in no hurry. The most important thing is to be prepared. It took me about 3.5 hours to remove the 7 plugs. The front six took about 2 hours. The broken one took about 1 hour to remove. It took longer than normal because I did not have a 24 mm long socket and it is harder to get at the back of the engine and work.

Doing this job is not overly difficult just time consuming but worth it if you are able to save a bit. Plus doing it yourself lets you know it is done right. If you have all the tools ahead of time it can be done fairly painless. I do recommend that an air compressor is available. I think it would be pretty hard to get at the dirt that is at the top of the engine with just a vacuum.

 

I paid $400 to a Ford Certified guy that works on my company's vehicles. 1 plug broke. It was skipping bad but it runs great now!

 

Boy the 95 F150 is super easy to change the plugs in, you can't even start to compare it to the newer engines.... I had a 97 F150 and it would take me about an hour to change all 8 plugs.

 

Just had Ford change them. $285.00 well worth it