Welcome to the Gathagan Automotive RU-vid channel. Gathagan Automotive is a small 2 bay shop Located in the beautiful state of Idaho. I really enjoy making videos and I hope that you enjoy watching them.
I winched the entire time you did the spring coil compression 🥵 Great job and thanks for the helpful video!!! My 06 Tibby appreciates your assistance 🖤
I've gotta do mine and believe i have a misfire too, no check engine light on though. I am curious why the only coil pack they wanted replaced was the 3rd cylinder? Was that what the code showed? And would there be a code without the check engine light on?
how do you do a fuel pressure test on those motors , cause my daughters car has a chug first start but clears up on its own and no check engine lights are on, like a misfire
Perfect Video. I Watched it cause I Have a 2013 TL. Code P0302 . It starts smooth and then it's starts shaking. But the funny tricky part is. I disconnected every coil one by one and I could feel the difference in the idle.. until I get to cyl-6 shake stays the same.. But my scanner reads 302 which is cyl-2 and not 6 were the shake stays the same . Spark plug is good and coil is arking . Hopefully is a tight valve
Excellent video. I've done this once before about 120k miles ago, your technique will save me some time as I jump into it again. My 08 just turned 226K and runs great and body is in surprising good shape for being in MI the pat 10 years.. Thank you for making this repair video. Best Regards, mjm!
Boy knows what he's doing thanks for all the insight because without your insights people will screw up any helped me out for tomorrow when I have to do just what you did thank you
I did my plugs yesterday on an ‘08 Taurus X. This video was perfect. No surprises. I had my tablet right by the car and paused the video before doing each step. The worst part about the job are the 2 clamps on the hoses on the back. I could not get the one on the right off but was able to get it done anyway. Thanks, couldn’t have done it without this vide!
On modern cars torque very important on all fasteners.alot of plastic parts can't just man handle them like the.old days plugs can come loose and pull the threads out of the head.now ya got a big problem. Remember things expand when hot. So that's why we have torque measurements. Do it right.
hey great video i have a 2009 ford taurus was thinking of giving it a tune up car has only 55,000 miles about 6 months ago i pull out the first 2 front right spark plugs and notice they look like the ones in your video.my car still runs okay just i notice some vibration while is on idle.i don't know if needs tune up i didnt have that vibration 3 years ago when i purchase this car engine was really quiet i was going to ask you is a good thing to change the pcv valve while the intake manifold is off? because i didnt see you change the one in this car you were working on.thanks in advance
@@dvera9726 how many miles you got on yours? I would like to tune up mine myself too.but the only thing is those to brake hoses by the firewall and the other one he had to use a special tool to detach while I’m there I will change the pcv valve because it goes with the tune up,the only thing is those hoses in the back of the engine if they give me a hard time I’m may loose my patience.
@@garylove2836 mine has 175k I had my mechanic do my spark plugs every year, but this time I wanna try myself. Those hoses don’t look bad, I went out to my car and checked everything and those can easily be removed with some needle nose pliers.
Thanks for your video it helped me I have a 08 Taurus with 191,k on it and a broken plug, which is not a problem I been up against the wall on this before, but my real question is, does it really matter if I go with factory plugs and coils are can I put a different set in with iridium plugs with Vplus coils what do you recommend???
Hey, thanks a bunch for the video! Certainly helped me out with some upcoming work... Gotta do the 100k "tuneup" on the wife's 2015 Taurus (which looks pretty-much identical to this one), and was sort of dreading the intake removal... but it doesn't look like that big of a deal. I like the fact that you use a little anti-seize on the plug threads. I've been doing that myself for decades on all my engines. Really helps the plug come out "next time". Also, the rags in the intake ports is ALWAYS a good idea. Excellent job and advise. Thanks again!
I have an 08 Mercury sable, which is basically the same vehicle, at around 96k miles and oe plugs. Should they be changed? Not having any problems with it but wondering if it’s recommended. Thanks.
If you have misfire codes, try replacing thermostat. May sound silly but my 3rd gen Tl had 16 codes multiple misfires etc & soon as I changed my thermo all codes left and a month later still no return
