Cracked the plugs this evening to soak them. What a pain. I pb nutbustered them first which helped.
Once I cracked them they turned easy without any noise. Hope that's good.
Ran out of daylight so will continue tomorrow.

 

I just did these plugs last week. Two plugs broke. I was soooo worried about the repair. I bought the lisle tool. Did the first plug in about 20 minutes max. Next was done in about 5 minutes.
Don't sweat it, you'll be fine.
I spent months dreading the job.

 

I did mine a couple of weeks ago. I studied the process and dreaded it for several months. Even after soaking them, I broke 4 of 8, but the Lisle tool worked very well at extracting them. I didn't use an impact driver, but I understand lots of folks have had success with that method. The whole process took me 6 hours, but that sure beats paying someone over $500 to do it.

 

I did this 2 months ago, 113K on original plugs. Seafoam in gas for 300 miles, bought the lisle tool, new boots and springs for the COP's and took all 8 out of a warm engine with none breaking. Returned the lisle for a full refund. Goodluck to you.

 

Good luck to you.. Did mine about 8 months ago.. Used deep creep.. Let them soak for hours.. Broke 2... Rented the lisle from Oreileys.. Came out with a breeze...

 

And everyone is using the 515's?

 

I put new motorcraft plugs back in. I believe they are the two piece design. I bought a kit from eBay. 8 aftermarket coils +8 plugs +8boots=$150.

 

Once the noise stops coming from the plug, they are broke, which sucks.

 

Do they all break the same way?

The two that broke on mine, the threaded sleeve came out but left the actual plugs intact. I physically had to snap them to use the tool.

 

Depends. Some you will pull just the threaded portion out(like you observed) and the remainder of the plug is still in there. In this case you need to break them off. A long needle nose is your friend.

Most will break off at the bottom, you pull the ceramic with the tool and then the bottom piece of metal.

Do ensure ALL parts are coming out.