That plug has been in there 2+ years. Spark plug blew out - helicoil? … It blew out the No. Blow out is a major issue on some vehicles. The Helicoil spark plug insert is black in color and has a knurl at the top to keep it in place by hitting the top of the insert with a mandrel and a hammer. The common fix is to helicoil the spark plug hole with one of a few different tool sets on the market. So yesterday the plug in the middle on the driver side (#4?) 5 spark plug. Fortunately, a couple of fixes are available to the experienced home mechanic. blew out. The plug experiences a force of about 300 pounds trying to push it out of the cylinder head on each power stroke. I put a new one in and it drove fine for day. I'm hosed, right? The Helicoil insert O.D measures .660 inches. Below are a few of the questions we have answered related to spark plug blow outs in Ford and Lincoln vehicles. Its recommended when doing any spark plug job to blow out the spark plug holes before removing any plugs so debris does not blow the plug out. My grandpa was a mechanic and asked me if I could put a oversized spark plug, what would work best. The thread on the spark plugs is M14 so the threaded portion of the plug has a cross-sectional area of about 0.239 square inches. RockAuto: Rockauto: 0: 01-12-2017 02:52 PM: Spark plug blew off head and damaged ignition coil. See our mechanics FAQ tool blog for even more questions answered on this topic. Thanks in Advance In 200,000 miles each spark plug has resisted that 300 pound force maybe 225 million times. Ford 4.6, 5.4 and 6.8 modular engines are prone to spark plugs being blown out of the cylinders due to the aluminum threads failing. see below pictures. I took the car to a Chevy dealer, who put in a Heli-Coil as a repair. It seemed to be fixed ok at Sarasota Ford in December, but the SAME ONE just blew out again. Help? Finally, there's that sickening feeling when you're changing plugs and inadvertently cross-thread a plug while installing it. Hey Dennis I have a 1999 F250 with a 5.4 triton and it had a heli-coil that blew out with the spark plug, so I took it to a dealership and they said I would have to get a new engine. Conversely, plugs may gradually loosen over time and eventually be blown out of the head by cylinder compression, mauling the threads. Question: I have a 1999 Ford F150 with a 4.6 liter Triton engine with 126,000 miles on it. On Ford vehicles spark plug repairs use p/n 5553. (1 Viewer) Thread starter NerdNoise; Start date Oct 12, 2012; Watchers 4 NerdNoise. Blew a spark plug out of the block! awthorn: 3rd gen T4Rs: 33: 03-06-2020 10:39 AM: Spark Plug (Coil-On-Plug) Boots at RockAuto.com! Thread starter #1 So the thread stripped out a while ago and I had a helicoil placed to fix it. 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