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I just did this job myself (on my mom's lincoln LS) and it is kind of a PITA because of the crappy access for the valve cover bolts and all the :q:q:q:q you have to remove. I've been working on cars a long time and it took me 4+ hours and had me cursing. Getting a torque wrench on some of the...

Right.. the way the connections are setup for the coils it would be pretty hard to switch them up. Moral of my problem.. if you replace the plug use either a quality oem replacement platinum or if you don't mind changing the plugs more often a good copper one will work as well. The plugs I...

Thanks for all the help/suggestions. I looked around for loose/broken connections for a while and couldn't find any. Since I hate platinum plugs I went down to autozone and got the $1.29 autolite copper plugs and swapped those in. Fired it up and it idled fine (no more rough idle or near...

I think I'm going to take it back apart and take a look at all the plugs and make sure everything is securely plugged in. I put in bosch single platinums and the gap was .040 . I was in a bad mood and rushed it when I did it and that always leads to stupid mistakes. The code I got was really...

I swapped the valve covers on my 2000 lincoln LS V8 and changed the spark plugs. One of the cover gaskets was leaking onto the exhaust manifold causing smoke. I replaced the center seals as well (with the revised ones), but only got a small amount of oil on one of the old coil packs.. the rest...

It does suck. But they did look up the recall info and in the computer it said it was already performed. Obviously it was not done correctly but I just finished replacing both ball joints (about $350 in parts :mad: ) and it drives fine now.

If you are talking to the original poster.. he should do that. I did it on my mom's LS because it's an 00 and the problem was obviously that the ball joint nuts loosened up. They said the recall was done before the car was bought and were basically jerks after that even though I am convinced the...

I am assuming the lower ball joint nut and upper ball joint nuts are one time use? Do you know the torque specs for the following? I'm doing this right now and need to get it finished ASAP. Thanks! 1. Hub to upright bolts 2. Brake Caliper braket to upright bolts 3. Lower Ball Joint Nut 4...

Actually I don't think it's a control arm (those are what it's bolted to iirc) and not technically a spindle since the hub bolts onto it and is sealed. Maybe it's an A-Arm but I just call anything that's not a spindle but pretty much the same thing an upright. Either way it doesn't matter the...

Hi, I ordered the two uprights because the ball joint bolts came loose on my mom's 2000 Lincoln LS and made the car handle really scary. I am replacing the uprights (with ball joint attatched) today and was wondering if anyone has any of the torque specs for the nuts and bolts. I guess that...