I see a lot of people mounting these in the trunk. What happens when you have a battery short or electrical short (cause of most fires) an the trunk wont pop open?? I hope you dont crawl through the backs seat to get to them... Mount them some where inside an easily accessible.
Batteries from Ford are garbage. do yourself a favor, chuck it and buy a good one. I dont know why, mine lasted a year from brand new bought a new one an never looked back.
Maybe try some seafoam with the first oil change. Never have I added it but they say you can. 🤷‍♂️
https://seafoamworks.com/knowledge-base/how-to-add-sea-foam-motor-treatment-to-crankcase-oil/
If this is indeed real I can't believe this thing hasent given up the ghost by now... seriously though drain it the best you can I suppose, change the oil, run it to temp, and change it again. Filter both times obviously cause the new oil is gonna knock some stuff loose I would think. I am sure...
Stickier tires are not the fix all, it's all about the driver mod and sounds like your on the right track... dont get me started on rain, usually just drive the hummer when it rains. Lol
Doing mine again right now, got to run to your local Ford dealer and buy the special Ford 10mm and really expensive thread (from the wife's sewing box, lol) to stop it from dropping in the pan. Then brush up on your favorite swear words and crack a beer to calm the nerves.
They appear to be chrome plated to me. But I guess not quite sure now that you ask. Just wierd if most people's oil consumption problems would be also attributed to this and they never know. I didn't have oil consumption all that bad though.
If you want numbers an how I did it here ya go. 210 to 215 on all cylinders here. All plugs out throttle closed and fuel pump fuse pulled. Right or wrong it's all within the magic percentage I think.
Havent posted in a while so here goes.
Went in to do valve guide seals cause I would get the blues after decelerating and stepping on it again or long time under manifold suction like going slow up my road.
Read on here about another guy that had somewhat the same issue and his seals were...
1oz per gallon for 3 years now no problems. Change out the plugs and I just clean/wipe off the O2's. I have even just cleaned the plugs and had no problems.