Help on on spark plugs

[fangsnu]

Well to start off I love my truck never been off road except to pull out a h2 that had 24's on it and thought he was riding dirty the xploder wnet right back there and pulled him right out. Anyways it all started I maybe a right turn comin outa my work and the thing like cavated real bad like a boat with a bad prop lot of gas and noise just not going anywhere fast. WTF is up with that. Then yesterday I went to replace my plugs with those bosch platinum p4 plugs and there was oil and like little black peices of metal on the to of my plug not where the threads are and bellow where the white part is so I didnt change them out whats wrong or is this "normal" I have 62k on the clock and what kinda 60k tune up should I do sorry for the neeb ? just lookin for a quick answer.

 

[Mbrooks420]

The quick answer is no. There should only be carbon on a plug, and at 62k, not much. Are you sure it was metal? If your finding metal in your top end, I'd start looking for a motor.

 

[E.B. Cornburner]

Take those Bosch Platinum plugs back where you bought them, tell them to shove them you know where, and get a set of quality Autolite double platinum plugs.

Sometimes there is a little metal "fuzz" on the electrodes as they wear, but it's pretty microscopic, and wont do any damage. If you have pieces of aluminum on the threads of the plugs, you most likely stripped out a plug hole when you pulled the plug. You have to be very careful with these when you remove the spark plugs as the threads can be weak, and reefing them out will damage the threads.

If that is the case, just be super super careful when you reinstall a new set, and make sure they all seat and torque down properly. If not, one or more may blow out as the engine is running, and take the remaining threads along with it. Then you have to have inserts installed in the plug holes (Called TimeSerts...they're like Heli-Coils, but heavier duty.) by someone who knows how do do them correctly. They can be done with the heads on the engine if someone knows how. Lots of places will just want to remove the heads and send them out to a machine shop for this kind of work though.

Keep your fingers crossed if that's what indeed did happen.

 

[goatman]

Take those Bosch Platinum plugs back where you bought them, tell them to shove them you know where, and get a set of quality Autolite double platinum plugs.

Listen to Cornburner on this. Bosch are junk in a Ford and will make your engine sound and run like you need a tune-up even though you just did one. This is a "been there... Done that..."
Motorcraft or Autolite.

 

[aldive]

I concur on dumping the Bosch plugs.

 

[fangsnu]

Ok Ima get the best ones ford sells tomorow and Ill take a pic of the metal.

 

[E.B. Cornburner]

You don't have to go to Ford to get them...You can buy Autolite plugs just about anywhere. The double platinums are what you'd want to get. You can buy the cheaper ones, but they'll need to be changed more often.

 

[protomind]

Bosch worked awesome in my 94 2.3 ranger, but were a dissapointment in a friends ohv 4.0