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[Red_Lightning22]

was driving to work this morning pulled outa the driveway and hit the gas (not to hard actually) and pulled onto the highway and heard a loud pop... sounded like a gunshot from my motor and then just started popping. Sounded a lot like a tractor or some big huge hillbilly truck. Pulled off the road and had my GFs dad come look at it and said it was alright to drive drove about 35 miles to the nearest Ford dealer and had them look at it.
Said I blew my #4 sparkplug out of my head and busted my fuelrail and was starting to leak fuel. so all in all its gona cost about 2060.00 to get it all fixed.

Anyone ever had this happen?!?!?

 

[Taunto]

ive had my spark plug blow but not enough to break the fuel line... if ur gonna spend that kind of money to get it fixed it might be cheaper to go with stage 2 heads and cams.... just an idea.... shitty deal man... i know whats its like for that to happen

 

[Bluebolt]

what year model truck?

this was a problem on some year models but never enough to break fuel lines like he^^ said

 

[The Swede]

There's a lot of threads about this problem on this here site.

 

[Red_Lightning22]

2000... yeah I watched the mechanic pull out the sparkplug and put his hand back and came out with a nice bit of fuel on it

 

[ChrisDeluxe]

Damm!! That sucks man!! That´s happened to me when I bought my Lightning in England! When you mean with the #4 sparkplug, that on the passenger side damm deep in the engine? That´s the one that blew out from my truck.
But i had more luck like you, the plug came out and take just the injector with! But nothing more would be destroyed thankfully!!

Is the thread in the head also damaged? Hopefully not!! But have understand that right, you drove your Lightning 35miles without the plug, the coil and with the damaged fuelrail?! Wow, the Lightning dosen´t rock on 4 cylinders!!! But hey, the Hemi guys pay a lot of money to have the cylinder deactivation ;-) !!

Hope that it all fixed fast!!


Greetings from Cologne / Germany


Chris

 

[boostdacr]

on my 00 i shot the plug out, but the coil pack just hit the rail..didn't break anything...besides the head.

 

[boostdacr]

Is the thread in the head also damaged?

Probably so, the problem is the lack of threads on the 99-00 heads.

 

[ChrisDeluxe]

I´ve got an 01 Modell, is the head-material better after 2000? Or the thread longer? Is there some parts out that hold the plug better? Like an insert or something like that? My thread was ok ( checked with a small cam and compression test... ) , I think the plug got loosen and then blew out at the right time as I was on the way home!


Chris

 

[Red_Lightning22]

yeah its all the way in the back! and the whole port is just screwed... have to get a brand new head and everything... the Mechanic said he's never seen one break the fuelrail... so I guess Its one of a kind..

Im sure the 35mi didnt help much... Said it should have been blown up or burnt to the ground

 

[Red_Lightning22]

yeah id heard a funny sound the last 2 days or so and was taking to today after work to get it looked at and blew before I could do anything about it...

 

[bgstew6]

ITs an issue as the 99-early 03 heads onlyhave 4 threads.

 

[ChrisDeluxe]

And there is no insert out there that extended the threads?


Chris

 

[Kryo-Genik]

And there is no insert out there that extended the threads?


Chris

nah brother you got either the timecert kit or the lock-n-stitch kit.
Myself id go with the lock-n-stitch kit

 

[ChrisDeluxe]

Hey, you must explain the stupid german guy what you mean with " timecert kit " and " lock-n-stitch " :beer:!!
BTW How much is the torque for the sparkplugs?



Thank you!


Chris

 

[Kryo-Genik]

Hey, you must explain the stupid german guy what you mean with " timecert kit " and " lock-n-stitch " :beer:!!


Thank you!


Chris

they are both threaded insert kits for your heads brother. Think of a threaded sleeve that screws into the hole in your head where the spark plug goes, then the spark plug threads into it. They both do the same thing its just lock-n-stitches self locking insert that Id prefer more.

As a matter of fact one of the guys on here is a LNS dealer or employee (i forget)

 

[ChrisDeluxe]

Ah ok! Now I´ve understand what you mean! Thank you!!

I will search for one of these things! But do you have the torque for the plugs ? I think it will be better to check it regularly before something like that repeat!


Chris

 

[tallfreak]

was driving to work this morning pulled outa the driveway and hit the gas (not to hard actually) and pulled onto the highway and heard a loud pop... sounded like a gunshot from my motor and then just started popping. Sounded a lot like a tractor or some big huge hillbilly truck. Pulled off the road and had my GFs dad come look at it and said it was alright to drive drove about 35 miles to the nearest Ford dealer and had them look at it.
Said I blew my #4 sparkplug out of my head and busted my fuelrail and was starting to leak fuel. so all in all its gona cost about 2060.00 to get it all fixed.

Anyone ever had this happen?!?!?

Mods? Miles on engine?

 

[Red_Lightning22]

Mods? Miles on engine?

Superchips program and 119,200 around there...

 

[203Cree]

Lucky you didn't burn it to the ground. That happened to a kid down in LA a few years ago.