Re: want better gas milage for your 4.7?

From: Ian Pennington (ian456@ns1.koyote.com)
Date: Sat May 20 2000 - 20:30:53 EDT


Did you have to remove any coolant lines to get at the spark plugs? I was
looking at my 4.7 the other day and it looked like it'd be a bitch to change
out the plugs in the front.

>Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 09:24:45 EDT
>From: Hemikota@aol.com
>Subject: DML: want better gas milage for your 4.7?
>
>Get rid of those friggin crampion plugs!
>I pulled mine and replaced with Autolite 5224 platimums, I was getting
>12.5-13 mpg and couldnt do any better around town. Now I am getting 14-15
>mpg with no change in my driving. Yup, After 3 tanks of gas I am still
>hitting 150 miles at the half tank mark!
>PLUS the factory plugs, at least on mine, did not have any antisieze on
them!
> W/ aluminum heads, you should use hi temp copper antisieze on the plug
>threads.
>Just thought I'd pass this on!
>Boog
>00 4.7 SC 4x4 multi-slushie



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