while driving a loud noise under the hood. when checked I realized a spark plug had blown out, Had vehicle towed to repair shop and afer diving a couple of weeks I had a regular tune up and the next day the spark plug blew out again. Repair shop recomends having a machine shop repair the threads, or dealership to repace at cost of $2000-$4000 I'm not a machanic and Now I'm so confused.. Please help with your knowage of what repairs I can have, Thanks to all of you.
2006-12-14 03:36:12 · 8 answers · asked by carole j 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
parts store they have repair kits a type of helicoil.I had a repair shop but I could not Guarantee the repair. What do you have to lose.go to a different repair shop
2006-12-14 03:43:42 · answer #1 · answered by vincent c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can helicoil it, but you run some risk of metal shavings getting in the cylinder and screwing expensive things up. The best way is to remove the head.
Don't listen to the repair shop since they're the morons who didn't fix it right the first time.
Replacing head for a stripped plug hole is ridiculous and even if you did, it would be a grand or so. $4000 would get you a new engine.
2006-12-14 05:08:53 · answer #2 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was the Spark plug the original one that came with the Van? If it was the original spark plug, you may have a claim against Ford. The one who installed the plug originally did not install it correctly causing the threads on the head to go bad. It may be possible to re-tap the threads on the head.
2006-12-14 03:44:18 · answer #3 · answered by Dave3507 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of Course they recommend to Replace the Engine ! Question is, what did they do on your Tune-Up ?
Maybee when the Plug blew it damaged the Cylinder.
Should have checked and eventually replaced the Plug-Wires, the Distributer-Cap and all the Plugs. Also check the Compression on each Cylinder.
2006-12-14 03:53:05 · answer #4 · answered by connoiseur444 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've got have been given information for you adult men. it quite is many times not, I repeat not brought about with the help of the plugs being replaced with the help of an improperly knowledgeable mechanic. It surpassed off to me. All of my paintings is performed with the help of the Ford broking the place i offered my outing. 5000 miles after a song up with the help of a Ford broking, I blew a plug. #3 to be precise. Ford in Chicago needed $4500 for a clean head. I had a clean motor put in for $7000. the hot one is an '05. so far, a million song up and no subject concerns. the undertaking is the layout of the heads. i grew to become into advised this off the checklist in guy or woman with the help of three different sellers. classification action won't help. look on the Explorer settlement. $500 vouchers to purchase yet another Ford. people who're quite offended won't use them, and people who use them will basically get a chit of $500 decrease than commonly used. the only ones who make money on a classification action are the legal experts. you may wager they did not gets a commission in vouchers. do basically like me. tell all of us you will locate. cope with the motor vehicle till you may sell off it and purchase yet another sort.
2016-10-14 22:38:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if its a ford 4.6 or 5.4 there is a recall this happened because the threads on the heads were not deep enough,new ford heads have deeper threads.
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2006-12-14 05:18:10 · answer #6 · answered by moe h 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who screwed up the threads? Make them pay for it.
2006-12-14 03:42:06 · answer #7 · answered by Mike Hunt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-15 13:32:21 · answer #8 · answered by eric m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋