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PostSubject: Of all the crap that can happen...   Of all the crap that can happen... Icon_minitimeMon Feb 01, 2010 1:15 am

I break a goddamn plug off in the explorer whilst doing a tuneup this weekend. Drivers side rear, so at least its not on the passengers side.....


Damn metal porcelain broke off right below the hex. So now its either an EZ-out and some heat, or a fucking drill and a helicoil.


Anybody have any better ways of doing this? I REALLY don't want to pull the head off, considering I don't have 200 bucks for the gaskets OR the time to pull the head off. If anybody wants to help, I'd buy the beer!!!! Anybody ever do this before? The previous owner looks like he changed plugs in this bastard ONCE in 92K. At least by buddie let me borrow his Bronco 2 for getting to work.


I'm going to go drink now.
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PostSubject: Re: Of all the crap that can happen...   Of all the crap that can happen... Icon_minitimeMon Feb 01, 2010 10:07 am

Just a warning, better plan on a helicoil. Ill almost bet money the threads are ruined when you get it out.

I had a plug in my bmw motorcycle that wouldn't come out. Some persuasion and it spun right out. Of course, I didn't figure out the threads were gone until I put it back together with new gaskets! Fack!

Good luck man.
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PostSubject: Re: Of all the crap that can happen...   Of all the crap that can happen... Icon_minitimeMon Feb 01, 2010 12:39 pm

Is there enough area to weld a socket to it? If you try to easyout it you'll just end up with a broken piece of hardened steel in it. If you drill it they make left hand bits that have a tap about 1" up the bit, they seem to work ok, I would use a ton of PB too. This is a super common problem on the 5.4L and I'm sure if you search you can find a step by step somewhere for those and apply it to yours.
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PostSubject: Re: Of all the crap that can happen...   Of all the crap that can happen... Icon_minitimeMon Feb 01, 2010 8:52 pm

Not enough room to weld, it busted right below the hex. I called up my Buddies dad and he said we have two options. Either we get it good and hot and use something like Kroil on it to penetrate ( then use a square style EZ-out and carefuly turn it out) or drill it out and helicoil it. He says that we shouldn't have to take off the head if we get the cyl to TDC and blow it out real good afterwords. He's done this on multiple makes and models of vehicles apparently. I guess the trick with the ezout is to use the square type so it doesn't expand what you are trying to remove. If I go slow, it should come out. looking at the piece i snapped off, it corroded on the outside, thinning the shank of the plug below the hex. The other two plugs didnt have as much corrosion, and they came out fairly easy. i'm hoping that whats left of the ceramic blew out when we started it and backed it into a parking stall. If thats the case, it should go pretty easy. I know this method is used a lot in the 5.4L world. I'm just hoping that this plug wasn't cross threaded, and that it was simple corrosion that caused it to snap.

We are going to attempt to fix it on Saturday.
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