Ford Spark Plug Problems?
Just picked up a 2003 Four Winds on Ford E450 chassis with V10, 32K miles. Been seeing a lot of forums on spark plug blow out or breaking inside of the cylinder. Looks like mostly E350/F350 and ligh...
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j-d wrote:
Please let me know if you think HOT would be any benefit. I'd really rather not do that,and it's starting to sound like it'd be cold anyhow, by the time I took enough off to get at very many of the plugs.
I do not know if this applies to 2V engines, but 3V engines have issues with the original 2 piece spark plug breaking and leaving a portion in the head.
Ford had an elaborate procedure of wait for the engine to cool completely, soaking in penetrating oil, loosen an 1/8 turn, more penetrating oil, etc, etc. Field feedback said, use an impact on the plugs while the engine is hot. Fewer failures have resulted in this method.
