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Old Nov 22, 2015 | 01:59 PM
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Take anything that Bill Hewitt says and toss 90% in the trash.he is so full of it I am surprised his eyes are not brown.
I still have the WIF and have even seen the light so to speak. Good filters are a given with any automobile for the
most part now a days. The VW Beetle did not have a filter it had a screen. Dirty fuel can cause problems and even kill
one of the newer 6.4 and 6.7 engines. On oil most will say that full synthetic is the best. If you don't drive a lot or it
sits all winter and comes out for the summer 6,000 miles then I would go full synthetic just because of the stability factor.
If you drive the wheels off (1,000's miles week) it having the dino/synt blend that Ford says to use will save you some cash.

One of the biggest killers of injectors is Fuel Pressure. This can be do to poor filter change times. Need to install the regulator
update aka Blue Spring kit. Blocked in tank pickup or a failing fuel pump that has been let go.

Speaking of all of this I need to go out and drain my water separator and change the filters they are due.



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Old Nov 22, 2015 | 02:19 PM
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I lost 2 at 175,000 and replaced all of them with Motorcraft. You would probably be safe to replace the 2 bad ones but if you are paying someone to do it the labor involved to change one on each side verses all of them is not that much different.

I had no problem doing the pass side without messing with the evap shroud. A flex 12mm gearwrench made it pretty simple.
 
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Old Nov 22, 2015 | 03:08 PM
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My problem was not the valve cover but the torx bit that I had was too long
to get the bolts back into the oil rail.



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Old Nov 22, 2015 | 08:35 PM
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Given your milage and your maintenance I would just do the one. I would do the blue spring asap if not done allready.

Are you running a tuner?

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