Ford stripped out spark plug threads?!?
 

My dad was driving his 03 f250 superduty home (5.4l v8) home one night from work and heard a loud bang followed by a retarded idle, driving real shitty. It turns out his spark plug blew out of his head and stripped the head out with it. I felt horrible because I was the last one to do his spark plugs (which are a bitch to do btw), but I was really ------- careful when I did it because its his baby, not to mention it was a year ago. I read up on it and it turns out that ford has had thousands of cases of their 4.6, 5.4, and v10 engines throwing plugs out of their engines since the early 90's. Supposedly they had done something to fix it for the 03 and on models, but lots of people are having the same problems now. The most retarded part is that ford says you don't need to change your spark plugs for 100k miles(which is a load of ----), and these are shooting out of the engine at around 50k and up. No recall at all on this, probably because ford couldn't afford it, the fuckers. Pretty ridiculous that the first new vehicle my dad has ever bought after driving fords his whole life has self removing spark plugs. Apparently there isn't enough threads and they loosen themselves over time. My dad was able to helicoil some new threads in, but whose to say it will hold, or that the other ones won't do the same thing-- not to mention you need to take the intake manifold off to get anywhere near the plug wells? Its bad because its his work truck and he's fucked without it, and the spark plugs blowing out not only ---- the head, but they ---- the on plug coils. A couple people reported the plugs blowing out through their hoods.

Anyway, a big ---- you to ford. Self changing spark plugs are not cool.
oh and hybrid SUV's are retarded

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haha thats funny. not cool but funny

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Ive done lots of 5.4, 4.6 and v10 heads for just that, I have never done one on a motor that I have changed the plugs on, or had og plugs but ive done plenty on motors that penis's have changed there own plugs and even a couple fthat other techs have done. There are a few reasons for this, you dont just spin them in with a 2.00 socket and hope its good ;)

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Since Ford says they're good for 100k miles, just JB weld them in if it happens again. Problem solved :)

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Ford sucks, GM FTW :l

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I heard about this too. I have a 98 E350 5.4, and I'm not trying to have the spark plugs fly out and be responsible for it. I called ford to have them ---- it up (change the spark plugs) and they said it would be like $4XX to do it. Haha, I think I'll just drive the bitch.

If my spark plugs fly out of my van today, EGgyLShatch will die in his sleep tonight. Deal.

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Old news fo sho. I heared about this, and saw first hand for the first time a couple years ago

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I have a friend with a 2000 mustang GT he supercharged it with a vortech kit, and he constantly blowing out spark plugs , and only 13psi the threads would ripped out, and he have to get them retapped, same issues over and over.

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FORD=poopoo :y
buy a chevy

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buy neither, go DODGE.

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The best way to fix this problem is to trade it in for a diesel. I have a buddy with a 98 F250 with the spitting spark plugs out problem to.

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I know what you're saying, but this was over a year ago. I don't remember quite what was involved, but theres no way I would have fucked up putting in his sparkplugs-- I'm way more careful and tedious with other peoples vehicles than my own. But I guess I can't discount install error-- doesn't ford sell a special socket just for putting in their spark plugs? If they would stop being such jews and stop trying to ---- over the home mechanic, maybe they would have less problems. naggers.

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no sparkplugs, diesel FTW

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That happened to my buddies lightning the other day. Good thing my causin owns a shop and did it for him for $400 otherwise it would have been a ---- ton. Some guy had 7 blow out and started his truck on fire right after driving it off the lot and ford didnt do ---- about it. What fags.

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so some guy had 7 out of 8 spark plugs blow out 3 seconds after leaving a ford lot? SHUT THE ---- UP ::)

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i think the new recall on the fords is tight with the egr not working an blowin flames out the pipes, so pretty much a built in flam thrower lol

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not the egr causing the flames :1

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thought it was the egr? hmm

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100k spark plug change is about right, we normaly recomended at about 80k, there some ober special plug, that's why there about 8-12 $ each

and 400 $ is a load of crap, i was doin em all day for like 200$

Never had any of em come back for blowing out.

and it wasn't the EGR ...it was a PCM recall, we just posted the recall not....1 month ago, it's on HMT somewhere

on a good note.....if it was your mad skillz that caused the problem, it would have been damn near instant, and not months after the fact

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pcm was not reponsable for the flame thrower but it was recalibrated as a fail safe so it could not be possable again. If the spark plug works its way loose over time and fucks up the threads due to improper torque it wont come out instantly. BTW This is the number one reason for plug thread failure according to ford, but anything with 5 threads in aluminuim is asking for problems anyways.

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you would eat my ---- for a ride in a gt40

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She would laugh at your tiny penis :-*

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Even better story than this...

My ex girlfriend had this taurus that actually sucked in either part or the entire plug, and then spit it out through the side of the motor where it made a dent in the middle of the inside of the hood. (car did have pretty high miles, and was a taurus)

Also know my one friends zx2 escort spit a plug out all the time.

The weird thing is, I would bet there are more retarded ricers messing up Hondas every day, but they don't spit out plugs.

Must be an American thing.

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FIXED IT FOR YA! ;D

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I remember with my wife's ZX2 that she went through like 4 DPFE sensors at just 30,000 miles. Now she rolls in a chevy Venture and I told her come time to change the spark plugs...go to garage. lol. Not that it's something special. Just that the rears look like a nightmare to change.

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good snag O0 an i dont know y everyone is making a big deal of the ford plugs, act like chevys an dodges dont have there own gay problems

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Bumpin this thread up. Local 06' F150 for sale that I'm thinking of making an offer on. It has the 5.4L V8 in it with 48000 miles. Was this problem fixed yet?

What're your opinions for the people familiar with Fords? Not interested in the usual biased fords or domestics blow type of ----. I don't honestly know much about fords as my family and I all drive chevy and have since before I could remember.

Thanks.

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Really weird thing about that is with all the cobra's and gt's I've worked on never had one plug ever blow out. Some at 26 psi of boost and still no problems.

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yeap load of ----.

never heard of that happening...

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well here is a list of problems that will probually happen to the f150 I work at a ford dealership

rear axle seals will definately go out
rear brakes tend to wear fairly quickly
tire vibration if it has larger wheels than 17's even sometimes with the 17's its in the suspension desine, can usually be fixed by road force balancing the tires
third brake light may leak water into the cab
drivers side cowl panel may pop up(i've replaced 3 or 4 in the past 2 weeks all under waranty)
tires must be rotated ever 5,000 miles or the front tires will start to chop
the tilt handle for the steering wheel will fall off
the black lettering on the f150 badge will come off
The 3valve engine sounds like its going to explode on inital start up after an oil change, I suggest filling the filter with oil before installing

I'm probaully missing some things but I like driving them especially the king ranch, I'm sure a chevy tech could tell you as much stuff thats wrong with there trucks as well

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Fords are as gay as GMs :X

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Damn thanks for setting me straight

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you missed the spark plugs breaking off in the head when you change them on the 3 valvers :P

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07 Silverado > Ford
09 Colorado LS3 > All

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so your telling me the ford cobra or gt has the same motor as a ford truck and that too much cylinder pressure is the problem ::) Googgle that ---- ------ if you dont believe me. I've done more ford modular heads then I care to remember.

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:l

you're always supposed to do that

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you can damn well bet those heads share a lot of little details considering its ford

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07 Silverado's are ------- ugly, interior is nice and they have great power. The 6.2L probably will be a good motor like the 6.0L but the 6.2's leak oil out the rear main theirs a TSB for it already :l

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One has two valves, one has four. One is fully threaded, one is not. other then being aluminium there isn't much else the same ::)

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yeah but most people don't