{"id":664,"date":"2010-01-20T00:27:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2010\/01\/1997-ford-expedition-spark-plug-issue\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T19:49:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T00:49:11","slug":"1997-ford-expedition-spark-plug-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2010\/01\/1997-ford-expedition-spark-plug-issue","title":{"rendered":"1997 Ford Expedition Spark Plug Issue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our car has been running rough, off and on, over the course of several years. It happens, my husband fixes something, it goes away..and then months\/years later..it happens again. It has started up again. He thought it was the fuel filter, replaced but didn&#8217;t fix the problem. Then he thought it was the fuel pump, replaced and fixed the issue for 2 days. Then he noticed that the spark plug wells had water in them so he dried them and that fixed the issue for 2 more days. Then he noticed that the spark plugs were misfiring so he taped up the wires (trying to buy time to save up money) and it fixed it for a couple more days. Today it started up again so he looked under the hood (in the dark) and could see the sparks all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>We are so tired of trying to figure out this issue while spending money we seriously do not have right now.<\/p>\n<p>We are thinking of buying new spark plugs and wires tomorrow but this is the end of our cash and we don&#8217;t want to find out that it was wasted on something that isn&#8217;t the problem. <\/p>\n<p>Any idea what is going on?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a 4.6 engine. 2WD. This dumb car is ruining our marriage! We are so stressed about it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry if we sound cheap..we are going through a hard patch and trying to stretch things out.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our car has been running rough, off and on, over the course of several years. It happens, my husband fixes something, it goes away..and then months\/years later..it happens again. It has started up again. He thought it was the fuel filter, replaced but didn&#8217;t fix the problem. 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