The Escape decides it’s time to eject a spark plug coil. <\/p>\n
This is a pain in the ass; losing a cylinder on a 6 cylinder engine causes some serious driveability issues. Also, the odds are good it’s going to be cylinder 1,3, or 5, which are on the firewall side of the engine, requiring the removal of the intake manifold to replace. <\/p>\n
No biggie, the scape has 200,000 miles on it, so this is not unexpected. I run the ragged little bugger to the store and pick up the coils and plugs and some coolant, and pull into the garage. <\/p>\n
Despite the goatroping it requires to fix this, I have it all apart, back together, and running again by 0945, having pulled into the driveway at 0830. Like the indy fucking 500 of tuneups, and that with one sticky plug (Lots and lots of PBlaster, rock the plug back and forth. Engine smokes burning off that Blaster, but it beats having to yank a head)<\/p>\n
Anyway, the jap (Mazda) parts are out and I have installed nice lifetime warranty chink parts. Save me the grief of dropping $420 on it next time, it will just be my labor. Assuming there is a next time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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