Recent content by Mark McAwesome

2024 order banks will be opening in June sometime. Granger, Dan Cummins, Mark Dodge and Koons discount heavily if you order. Discounts are $11,000k to $12,000k off msrp, they’re all about the same. If you buy a TRX on the lot it’s usually msrp.

Installed RPG UCA, RPG Full Tie Rods, Alcon Big Brake Kit. Update with clean photos when it stops raining here.

I would suggest having someone help with the rear leaf springs. I did it solo, it was quite an effort. Extra pair of hands is the way to go. On the fronts I went in small increments when compressing, make sure you keep the threads lubricated so the compressor doesn’t bind up.

Reinstalled stock port fuel injectors, reverted tunes back to stock. Today I dropped the truck off at the dealership to see what was wrong. They called me a few hours later with the most anticlimactic news of all. They couldn’t find anything wrong, took it for a drive, interstate, city...

Working on taking it back to stock, have it on gas tune now, switching injectors out tomorrow and checking on the sparks again.

Well, I celebrated to soon I guess. Truck just started having cylinder 6 misfires again. If I get on the truck while cruising it will vibrate excessively and throw a code, cylinder 6 misfire. All the obvious things have been checked multiple times, I’ve replaced spark plugs, ignition coils, cam...

The TSB states excessive oil consumption, I’m guessing I have the issue and definitely need the PCM update to correct

VICTORY!!!!! Everything is back together, cleared the ECU, cleared the TCM, warmed the truck up, prayed and then did a hard pull. No issues, truck pulled hard. Culprit: MAF Sensor on the firewall side of the the intake manifold. It hasn’t been looked at in 75k, it was covered in oil…dripping...

If that’s the case, I won’t be messing with the DI injectors, I’ll let Ford play with those. Pulled the manifold, by chance I looked at the MAF sensor on the back of the manifold, it was dripping with oil. I pulled and cleaned all three. Not sure if this is the fix yet but it might explain why...

We’re going to check the port injectors, will swap 6 to 5 and I’ll check the resistance on all of them. If that doesn’t correct. I’ll baby the truck to where I can swap back to gas, then then put the original port injectors and stock tune, then take her to Ford.

Removing the swapping injectors was a next step considered, the problem is I’m running e85 and have half a tank, so I can’t just pull them unless I dump the tank completely and fill back up with gas immediately. What I did just do was verify compression on cylinder 2, 150psi. So I threw the...

Update: used a cylinder compression tool to check the cylinder 1, it’s at 150psi. Is this correct? What other options do I have before I take it to Ford? Is the gasket messed up on cylinder 1 which is why it’s leaking oil? Could that be why it’s nuked two spark plugs? Was there excessive...

Update: P0306 still firing when I accelerate hard, which is misfire cylinder 6. On a whim I decided to see what cylinder 1 spark plug looked like, brand new with less than 50 miles, see photo. Tip is absolutely melted off, oil covering the threads all the way up. Using a flashlight to look down...

Swapped ignition coils, 6 to 3, hoping for the error to move to 3. It stayed at cylinder 6, again getting the P0306 miss fire error. If I do gentle driving with no hard accelerations, everything is fine. The vibrations and error code don’t come on until I do a hard acceleration with a downshift...

Not only fouled, but melted and shorted out.