Okay, to set this up, I recently saw a local ad for a 2007 Ford F150 with 53K miles. The ad was placed by a former high school classmate. I called him up, shot the breeze a few minutes and went to look at it. The first thing I noticed was that the 2007 just happened to be a 2009. The classmate was selling this truck because it was his mom's truck, she has dementia and can no longer drive. This truck was parked indoors for three years and insurance and registration had been dropped. They would occasionally throw a battery maintainer on it. The 53K miles showing on the odometer is accurate. Engine is the 4.6 3-valve. I took it for a drive on the back gravel roads (no insurance or tags, remember), came back and i wrote him a check. I drove it home (about 10 miles away), dropped the oil and this is the filter that came off it it, a John Deere TY24773E, a Motorcraft FL820 equivalent. The replacement filter was a SuperTech ST2 and I added about seven quarts of some old TropArtic 5W-20 that I've had in some inventory.
The truck came with some almost-new tires and a half tank of 3-year old gas. I got a PO130 code on the way home which MIGHT be partially from the old gas. I'm going to burn it all out, add some new gas, clear the code and see if it returns. Next on the agenda will be to change the transmission oil and get some new plugs in there. Yea, I'll have the Lisle plug extractor ready.
This filter looks rather cheap and is probably nothing more than the E-cores that RockAuto is currently listing for ~$1.65/each.
The truck came with some almost-new tires and a half tank of 3-year old gas. I got a PO130 code on the way home which MIGHT be partially from the old gas. I'm going to burn it all out, add some new gas, clear the code and see if it returns. Next on the agenda will be to change the transmission oil and get some new plugs in there. Yea, I'll have the Lisle plug extractor ready.
This filter looks rather cheap and is probably nothing more than the E-cores that RockAuto is currently listing for ~$1.65/each.
