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Sounds as if you may have some type of serious short-to-ground.
To confirm, first disconnect the battery , then take a multimeter and test the resistance between the positive and the negative battery terminals of the vehicle.First thing i would suggest is to see what codes are being thrown.
No use in just throwing parts at cars…If i understand your question properly, i will give a brief explanation on how i understand it.
The way hydraulics work is you exert a small force over a large area to cause a large force over a small area.
Pressing on the brake pedal 10mm may only make the brake calipers/wheel cylinders extend a fraction of a millimeter!There will also be “flex” in your brake parts. The calipers will flex as you exert hundreds of PSI of pressure into the pistons.
Your brake drums(if equipped) will also slightly “stretch”.
There will also be a small amount of expansion in any rubber hose in your brake system.No, that wouldn’t cause the valve cover gasket to go bad, but it could accelerate the oil seeping into the spark plug tubes.
Depending on the job, i usually work it out to what it would normally cost at any shop i work at, and kinda charge a half’ish kinda thing.
Usually a 20% markup on my cost of parts.
And something like $50/hr book time for the job. ( local rate is 95-125)Though, nothing is carved in stone…
If you use something low pressure like a garden hose, you should not cause any leaks. Just DO NOT use something like shop air to try and blast it out, likely to cause more harm than good.
Depending on how it was flushed( maybe just a drain and fill), the heatercore may not have been actually flushed of all dexcool.
Try pulling both hoses off the heatercore and see if there is actually any flow(ie with a garden hose).You should be able to reach the two hoses leading to the heater core, should be two rubber hoses heading into the firewall on the passenger side.
Can you feel if those are hot as well?EDIT: sorry, just noticed you mentioned that they are hot, if both heater core hoses are equally hot, it points to the blend doors not moving properly.
My other suspicion would be mixing of coolant types. Dexcool and green glycol tend to clog everything, and very likely could cause a clogged heater core.Fords can be very particular about their transmission fluids, and having owned a few myself, the 2000+ should really only have mercon V in them, or they will shutter your teeth out on shifts!
As for transmission fluid changes; if you aren’t having a problem with it, then there may be no reason to change it. I have seen more than my share of flushes wipe out a transmission.
As for the bubbles on your dipstick, you may want to look for some type of anti-foaming additive.Even if you plan on keeping the vehicle, aftermarket is just fine.
And if the spark plug tubes are full of oil, then you will need a new valve cover gasket. The round gaskets for the spark plugs tubes tend to get hard and crack and the tubes fill with oil. They can be a pain to dig out, but is still not a difficult job.
There may be no need to replace the ignition coils, the build-up of oil in the spark plug tubes is likely the cause of a misfire and does not necessarily point to bad coils.