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Post  cooter August 7th 2011, 12:11 am

anyone had a 5.4l triton motor break a plug off in the head? Its a ford problem! Do they come out using the special tool or do i remove the head?

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Post  johndickjr August 7th 2011, 12:32 am

cooter wrote:anyone had a 5.4l triton motor break a plug off in the head? Its a ford problem! Do they come out using the special tool or do i remove the head?
heard that most times they will come out with the tool..also read many many times the correct way to do it without breaking the plug..but you need to be able to let truck sit for a few days... pull the wires off and pour rubbing alcohol into each plug well and let it sit for a while..then repeat this a few times...then use a impact to bust them loose...

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Post  cooter August 7th 2011, 1:01 am

7 out of 8 came out and of course the one that is hardest to reach broke, time for a 460 swap!

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Post  bbf-falcon August 7th 2011, 3:56 am

If you use the gold Anti seize,will that help the problem?

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Post  dadof384k August 7th 2011, 9:48 am

the special tool will work just fine we have done a bunch of these, just keep it lubed up real good. good luck. todd

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Post  sixtynineford August 7th 2011, 10:08 am

and put one peice plugs back in it if you feel there is a chance that you will be doing the next set of plugs a 100k from now....

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Post  maverick532 August 7th 2011, 3:58 pm

X2 on the one piece spark plugs, yes the special tools will get them out . Been there done that several times.

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Post  richter69 August 7th 2011, 4:25 pm

Poor ass design by Ford! Happens a lot, extreme cases the head comes off.
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Post  crittersf1 August 11th 2011, 3:13 pm

Brisk and Champion now offer the one piece plugs
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Post  cooter August 11th 2011, 7:40 pm

Well $200.00 to remove 2 broken plugs, now i can stop swearing at ford and figure out how fast i can sell the truck. I cant complain about the cost to remove the plugs but i shouldnt have to pay for a ford screw up

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Post  richter69 August 11th 2011, 8:47 pm

They might make the better replacement plugs but you still have to get the factory ones out.............serious FAIL on the engineer's part on this one.............and a lot others.

They should just make disposable vehicles for like 100th the cost......no damn bluetooth sync bullshit just a cheap ass form of transportation and when it breaks throw it in the trash and get a fresh one out of the carton lol.
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Post  Diggindeeper August 11th 2011, 9:45 pm

richter69 wrote:They might make the better replacement plugs but you still have to get the factory ones out.............serious FAIL on the engineer's part on this one.............and a lot others.

They should just make disposable vehicles for like 100th the cost......no damn bluetooth sync bullshit just a cheap ass form of transportation and when it breaks throw it in the trash and get a fresh one out of the carton lol.

they quit making sunfire's and neon's a few years back
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Post  69F100 August 11th 2011, 10:31 pm

They should just make disposable vehicles for like 100th the cost......no damn bluetooth sync bullshit just a cheap ass form of transportation and when it breaks throw it in the trash and get a fresh one out of the carton lol.

X2 they alway saying cell phones and texing are the reason for a bunch of wrecks never caused by all the crap they put in them for you to playing be with while you drive or trying to read the gps not paying attention where you going or what happening around you
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Post  crittersf1 August 12th 2011, 8:29 pm

It's really not that big of a deal.
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Post  richter69 August 12th 2011, 8:34 pm

crittersf1 wrote: It's really not that big of a deal.

.............if ya got the tools to get the broken junk out lol
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Post  psfracer August 17th 2011, 8:12 pm

I had a 3V with the same spark plug design before going to the 572, and never had that problem as I pulled the plugs often. It seems like this was always a problem though when one was pulling the plugs for the first time after 60K miles or whatever. One thing is for sure, simply put anti seize on the body of the plug (below the threads) but obviously not anywhere on the ground strap or the insulator nose---and you won't have the problem again.
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