carolinagirl
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Has anyone had this problem or ever heard of it happening to anyone?
My husband was driving our Expedition home from work last week. All of a sudden he hears this pop followed by alot of rattling and then the truck idle starting messing up. He got home, but since it was dark, he couldn't see what had happened. The next morning, he goes out to take a look and comes back with a spark plug and the cover casing in his hand. I think whew, it's only a spark plug. Then he proceeds to tell me the thing blew out of the head (like a cannon). We take it to the Ford dealer and he confirms, says Ford recommends replacing whole head. My hubby, who was also a mechanic in the army for 8 years, says what about a tap and heli coil. Ford, says we don't recommend that, but later they called us and said they would do it, but couldn't guarantee it wouldn't happen again.
So I do some research and find that it seems to be a common problem with Expeditions and F-150's. Called Ford Motor, they act oblivious, filed a report with NHTSA and see several other complaints describing the exact scenario my hubby described. Some people say it is because the aluminum head only has 4-5 threads to hold the 12 thread spark plugs. I say if that it the case, Ford needs to do a recall.
This sucks, and now we are scared to even step on the gas, for fear we will have to spend another $600- $2700 to fix the other 7 plugs that may or may not blow. Also, my question to Ford is that even if we replace the head, what guarantee do we have that we won't have the same problem. If they don't acknowledge it's a problem, then they haven't fix the head to have more threads, which means the potential for it to happen to a new head is still there.
My husband was driving our Expedition home from work last week. All of a sudden he hears this pop followed by alot of rattling and then the truck idle starting messing up. He got home, but since it was dark, he couldn't see what had happened. The next morning, he goes out to take a look and comes back with a spark plug and the cover casing in his hand. I think whew, it's only a spark plug. Then he proceeds to tell me the thing blew out of the head (like a cannon). We take it to the Ford dealer and he confirms, says Ford recommends replacing whole head. My hubby, who was also a mechanic in the army for 8 years, says what about a tap and heli coil. Ford, says we don't recommend that, but later they called us and said they would do it, but couldn't guarantee it wouldn't happen again.
So I do some research and find that it seems to be a common problem with Expeditions and F-150's. Called Ford Motor, they act oblivious, filed a report with NHTSA and see several other complaints describing the exact scenario my hubby described. Some people say it is because the aluminum head only has 4-5 threads to hold the 12 thread spark plugs. I say if that it the case, Ford needs to do a recall.
This sucks, and now we are scared to even step on the gas, for fear we will have to spend another $600- $2700 to fix the other 7 plugs that may or may not blow. Also, my question to Ford is that even if we replace the head, what guarantee do we have that we won't have the same problem. If they don't acknowledge it's a problem, then they haven't fix the head to have more threads, which means the potential for it to happen to a new head is still there.
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