stackz

ok, made some progress. got two of them out so thats seven down and one to go. I just grabbed a metal kabob skewer and used that to loosen stuff up, then I would vacuum, then pick some more and vac again.
then used the pusher again and would keep trying the puller until I had the porcelain pushed down and enough crap out for it to grab good.
only issue I have is plug #5. the bottom of the strap broke off completely as well as a piece of the porcelain which is likely inside the cylinder obviously.
I'm going to clean my shop vac and try and see if it has enough suction to get the pieces out but if that doesnt work, how much damage do you think they'll do in the combustion chamber?

Johnml

Wow. What a nightmare! I always did my own tune up's but I'm gonna let a seasoned Ford mechanic do mine. I get nervous just reading this sticky. Good luck!

Justin251

The local Ford dealerships quoted me ~300 bucks then anywhere from 75-100 bucks per plug that breaks.

I said, "this could turn out to be an $1100 plug change? " to which I was replied, "yes".

That'd why I did my own.

Johnml

My local Ford (Sawgrass Ford) in south Florid quoted me $300 - $500 depending on how many plugs broke. I hate to pay $500, but he told me the plugs alone cost $120. It just sounds like a nightmare what your going through and from what I read, your not alone. Just from past experience, my luck would have every plug break and what could go wrong would. I'm jinxed. Good luck!

Justin251

My plugs were I think about 8 dollars a peice from oreilleys.

Motocraft

Rick's 06

Stackz-
My sympathies go out to you on this spark plug fiasco you're dealing with. Only one more to go. If I were you, I'd try to get any debris out as much as possible before you try to blow it out. I'd clean my shop vac out so that I could open it up and see what's in there after I cleaned up a cylinder. Good luck and keep us posted.

2010FX4F150GILROY

This thread was one of the reasons I bought the extended maintanace includes all service to 100k miles...

jm993

What are the correct replacement plug options? I've got 86K miles on my 04 and am not looking forward to this job.

Justin251

Motocraft?

stackz

victory! the last plug is out. man if it didnt creak and moan when it came out. it made as much noise as the others did when I was breaking their ground straps.



anyway, looks like I've got to clean out two cylinders.

went to lowes and got some 1/4" plastic hose so I can get past the lower portion of the spark plug hole and into the cylinder itself. gonna clean out the vacuum first and then rotate the cylinders to the bottom to give me a better angle at trying to blindly find the pieces I need.



man I hope this goes as smoothly as I hope.