The fuel injectors seem to be very misunderstood, because
everyone seems to want to change them
They seldom ever fail & if someone goes that route
in diagnosing a ford misfire, there wasting their time.
Check them yes,if it makes you feel good
You change absolutely nothing on any vehicle
until it fails
You change nothing until you understand how
something works & how to TEST it
On a Ford or Lincoln you disregard all the misfire codes,
when you get more than one at once
The 171 O2 Sensors Code is from the misfire & resulting
lean condition
What you have is 1,only 1, Bad COP Ignition Coil
You buy one for $60.00 & put it in one of the PO300
Code cylinders & drive a few hours in hot weather
If the problem is still there (forget the codes) you put
back the old coil & move the new one
If you have all kinds of fancy oscilloscope & inductive
coil probes etc you can do all sorts of neat things
Look at primary side of coil ,secondary side of coil,
current ramp your fav the injectors etc
Easy job --buy one coil & put in 4,5,or 6
1,2,3
4,5,6
front to back
I suspect 1,2,3 will be next to the firewall
if a transverse engine
Clean MAF Sensor ----CRC MAF Cleaner
Change front O2 Sensors at 100,000 miles
Napa Auto Parts has OEM Bosch or NGK
You can verify injectors by, ...running at idle, unplug one at a time, if the engine rpm's goes down, that injector is working. If no change, you have an issue at that cylinder, being spark, fuel or compression.
I do know that some of the fords with plastic intakes are know to have intake gaskets (plenum) that harden and leak are. I would look into that.
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