A few days ago I had a spark plug blow out of the head on my 99 F-250 5.4l. I was like WTF this shouldnt happen. Needles to say I was pissed. I did some online searching and found out this is a huge problem that happens in 97 - 02 ford Triton motors. Ford refuses to step up and take responsibillity for the problem. Most dealers will only offer replacing the head as a repair. But I have found a dealer to put in a thread insert for $500.
Is there any ford mechanics out there that would have access to the tools needed for this repair, and could do it for me. I have a few friends that work for non ford dealers that are trying to help me out but the tools are almost $500 so I'm leaning towards haveing ford do it for me.
Heres some interesting links on the subject.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/autom...ord_spark.html
http://www.timesert.com/html/ford_sparkplug_faq.html