Jbrew

Nice stand white! I wish you luck finding a buyer for that 360...I'm with Bear...boat anchor. Might be worth a couple dollars at the salvage yard. I would of asked them if there was a discount if I left the block personally, and left it anyway lol.

fordguy2100

JP is Florence going to bother you or are you out if it's path?

Jbrew

Sure looks like he's going to get taste of it...if it holds it's line jp might be in for 50-60 mph winds anyway, along with a good soaking of course -



Batten down the hatches, stay safe Jp!

jprevat

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Thank you for the thoughts guys. It looks like we will be just South of where it will come in if it goes to Wilmington NC. We have been reinforcing and stockpiling for a couple days now, just in case. I'll be sure to let yall know how it goes.

Jbrew, if all we see is 50-60 mph winds and less than 10" of rain I will be all too happy. Especially since yesterday we were right in the strike zone for a cat 4 Florence.

akdoggie

JP, I hope that you get thru this upcoming storm without much problems. I know you will get wet, but........

Does anyone have the copy of the TSB on the 28# torque for the plugs.. My main computer is down where I have a copy, I think.

Jbrew

Didn't think one existed AK. I never seen one anyway. Not from Ford. Only at the site where they torque tested the heads, but that was 3rd party.

akdoggie

It's an 09 TSB I just can't check right now until my unit comes up
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In 08 Ford had one saying 20# was the new 13#, but the next year it changed up

jprevat

iTrader: (1)

Thanks AK. I'm hoping it isn't too bad. Right now they are saying we will see up to 90 mph sustained but with any luck maybe that will drop down. They are saying that it could stall out over land and dump up to 2 foot of rain. If that happens there will be some serious flooding.

Jbrew

The only TSB I can find is the old Lock and Stitch TSB which just informs you of the Ford approved method repeairing the heads. (That would be the 07-21-2 TSB btw)

Other than that, all I've seen from ford is recommended torque up to 14' lbs. But that wasn't in TSB/OASIS form, it was for service spec.

Other than that it's 3rd party, -

http://www.blownoutsparkplug.com/

Quote, -

"Over the past few years we have heard from many of our customers that they tightened their plugs to the correct torque but they still came loose. We worked with 10 other Ford Certified Master Mechanics and concluded that 28 foot lbs of torque would be satisfactory. We have been using 28 foot lbs of torque for many years and have never had one come loose or strip out. To verify that we would not damage the original threads we used a test cylinder head with good factory threads we applied over 100 foot lbs of torque to the spark plug without any failure."


Other than , I personally documented 21' lbs and caught #3 and 4 coming loose way back when. Went to 28# and it stuck. If you have a doc/TSB recommending 20# from Ford, I haven't seen that publication. Makuloco uses 25# Post it up if you find it. That would be interesting.

EDIT: ....yea,I may have gotten chumped (ask-holed) this time, never again.....well, until I forget anyway lol.

white89gt

JP.... good luck with Hurricane Florence Henderson! She's a wild one.

AK, check your mail.....