Spark plugs
09-15-2008, 07:52 AM
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Spark plugs
In using the search on my oil viscosity question, I cam across a thread about spark plugs breaking due to carbon fouling on the thread tips. Geez!
I had purchased some new plugs to install on my 4.2, but Now I'm having some concerns; I don't want to have one (or more) of these bust off into the head.
The plugs I was given by my NAPA guy in no way look like the photos I saw in the search. I assume I bought what the article refered to as "one piece" plugs.
Are all Ford engines between early 2004 to 2007 affected by these plugs?
I had purchased some new plugs to install on my 4.2, but Now I'm having some concerns; I don't want to have one (or more) of these bust off into the head.
The plugs I was given by my NAPA guy in no way look like the photos I saw in the search. I assume I bought what the article refered to as "one piece" plugs.
Are all Ford engines between early 2004 to 2007 affected by these plugs?
09-15-2008, 11:49 AM
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Well that explains why the NAPA dealer supplied what I'll refer to as "normal looking" spark plugs (looked nothing like the two piece style I saw in the pictures here on this site.
Good for me and my 4.2; bad for those with the 5.4.
Thanks for the info.
Good for me and my 4.2; bad for those with the 5.4.
Thanks for the info.
09-16-2008, 03:35 PM
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they had that problem in mostly the 2v 5.4s in the eighth cylinder they have had such a problem with it ford sells a repair kit for it now i've seen it more in the 2v than the 3v