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Idle question

Rwolfe

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Hanover PA
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01 Explorer Sport trac
My idle seems to really vibrate the inside of the sport trac when I am sitting in it I can feel it shaking me is this normal? If not any clue where to start to look?
 






spark plugs, wires, fuel filter

beyond that the most common gremlin is a vaccum leak

all are easy cheap fixes and should be done ever so often anyways.

i know the manual says plugs every 100k, but really im old school 25-50 would be alot. if at 25 they still look good i just give em a good blast with electric parts cleaner and a rag. Wires, make sure to use Die electric grease on the plug boots(both ends) and anti seize on the plugs. Do not use antiseize on 98-06 F150 v-8's they have an issue with the threads being a little short, on some models and plugs shoot out sometimes, seriously...im not kidding.

fuel filter is like 4-8 bucks and can make a huge difference in idle, my old f150 when purchased had 98k on it and when i dumped the fuel filter this brown goo came out, some combo of rust and thickened fuel(thickened by the rust i assume)
 






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