Ford fun. Today I tackled the challenge of tapping a blown spark plug hole on the wonderful worst engine known to man the triton 5.6 I was able to do the twenty minute project in just under 5 hours without pulling gone head. All was well until the tap fell into the cylinder. The nifty little set screw to hold the tap into the exceptionally long extension in order to get to the ridiculously deep spark plug hole on the amazingly bad design of an engine just so happened not to hold the tap in place and as I reached the bottom of an amazing steady straight first try tap into the light weight cylinder head thud goes the tap into the cylinder. SHIT. Off to the parts store I go for the flexible extra strong magnet on a stick. $9.78 for this wonderful device vs $100 in gaskets and head bolts should I pull the head. Half hour into the retrieval process I was successful maneuvering the escape tap to the spark plug hole however it came up to the hole thread first upside down. But knowing it was possible persistence paid off with a second retrieval however upside down again. The hole it was being retrieved from is in an Impossible position to get any visual whatsoever so.... Why not cram the I phone in the limited space to see exactly why this damn thing wont come through the hole hence finding out it was upside down. So let it fall back into the cylinder and try to retrieve it from the other end. Finally got the right end to the hole and now wonder how in the hell do I thread it back out. Simple turn the engine over by hand until the piston holds it in the hole. Now it is in place going nowhere more photos to see why the extension wont go back on. Crooked of course. Long screw driver releasing tension from the piston by reversing the engine and reapplying pressure until it was just right. Now hope like hell the threads on the tap do not decide to tap a new set of threads thus requiring a new head if this happens and back to square one. Got lucky and out it came and no need to pull the head. Now I am at the original 15 minute point of the project ready to insert the heli coil and wrap up 10 minutes of putting things back together. End of project spark plug is now back in the hole with brand new REPLACEMENT THREADS thanks to fords wonderful design notorious for blowing spark plugs right out of their threads. If you have read this entire story I have two points of advise. 1 if you have a mechanic wiling to do this fix pay em to do it!! In Colorado Matt Stevens is your guy. 2 if you are considering a ford vehicle with the early to mid 2000s triton DONT BUY IT!! In closing my wife has a 2002 Ford expedition for sale CHEAP!!! And I have a $100 specialty long tap for repairing this POS engine for sale as well.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 02:14:44 +0000
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