Thank you Ray the injectors have been my next suspect.
I've been looking at the old plugs condition and have discovered that the front bank of the engine is running alittle leaner than the rear bank. All 3 plugs from the front bank are whiteish looking which seems pretty normal compaired to plugs from other late model engines. However the rear banks plugs are brownish in color which indicates to me that the front bank is running leaner than the rear.
None of the plugs are caked up with deposites which would indicate a serious problem, but instead look very normal for plugs with 40,000 miles on them other than there color.
I have concluded that this is not a dead miss but instead a sputter that seems to randomly happening with several cylinders as I cannot pinpoint it to 1 cylinder by testing.
I've given up on having the car by wed. morning and have made other arrangements. However I would like to pursue this further in an attempt to arm myself with as much info as I can gather before I head to the stealership.
My problem with the stealership began when I took the car in because it would stall out and not restart unless you cranked it several times and sometimes for long periods of time. I searched this forum and found a TSB for recalibrating the ECU to solve the stalling and hard start problem. The stealership informed me that I would have to pay for having the TSB performed because as they claimed it was not covered by warranty, no amount of talking with them would change there minds. I went home and called Fords customer service and told them about my experiance. Ford agreed with me on the issue and called up the stealership and told them to recalibrate the ECU and replace my melted battery cables at no cost to me under the warranty.(my cables had melted the insulation abit at the battery conn. because of the excess cranking) Well since that took place all I have to do is walk in the service dept. door and all the service people leave the desk and go hide leaving me standing there for sometimes up to 20 minutes in hopes that I will leave. I never did get upset and have any heated words with any of these people at anytime, but this is how I'm treated now. I really need all the info I can muster before I go there because I know I'm gonna get 0 assistance from any of them.
Thanks for your help.
