How To Replace Ignition Coil Ford 1997-2002 Expedition

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In this video, we're going to replace the ignition coil on this '97 Expedition or one of the ignition coils. These coils, Ford used on many cars and trucks with either the 4 cylinder they either used one coil for 4 cylinder, or V8 they use two coils. This thing can fit anything from a 2.0 liter 4 cylinder to a 5.4 liter V8. The only tool you'll need is a ratchet and a socket with extension, a 7mm socket. Only the location of the coils is going to vary depending on what vehicle you have.

To replace this driver side coil, first you need to kind of get your air box and just kind of bring it up and move it out of the way. Now that we got the air box out of the way there's four 7mm bolts here. One here, here, down here, and then back there you can't really see. You can see probably the top of my can of penetrant. I'm going to do the best I can to use this little red tube to spray some penetrant on all the bolts under here and that will make them a little easier to come out.

Ok, so I've run into little bit of a problem here. You can see that these two bolts came out and actually my third bolt over here that you can't see is out. This bolt here, the head was so rusty it actually stripped, so what I'm going to do I'm going to take a marker and I'm going to start with the one closest to me. Mark that as one, two, three. Make sure we got two marks there, one, two three, and the one without marks is the fourth one. That way I know the number one stared closest to me and then clockwise around. Now I can unhook these. Now what I'm going to do, I'm actually just going to take my coil, and unfortunately on a rusty bolt in a truck like this, it's kind of the only way. What I did is I just broke that bolt. I'll be able to put my coil back on with three bolts and, not ideal, but it will hold it just fine. Hope that when you're doing your truck, it will all come apart easy. But if not, if you lose one bolt, it'll be ok.

Ok so I'm ready to bolt in my new one, I've got a little bit of a problem here. This one bolts on, on top here where our broken bolt went so I can't quite get it there so what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to put this clip on right here and then I'm going to put the coil on top of it so it's pinched down in there, then I'll start my bolts. I'll get these going and I'll tighten them up and we'll be all set. Plug this in and then these will kind of settle down right where they were anyways. There's my number one mark very close to me. That's got three marks on it, two marks. Last but not least, this guy has no marks. Now we can start her up and make sure everything's running good. Put the air box back here. Everything sounds good!

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