Remember when Han Solo and the others dove into the garbage compacter on the Death Star to avoid the imperial troops, and after several minutes, he exclaims "I've got a bad feeling about this..."

That's about how I felt today while degreasing the new 7.3L. I decided to clean it up, go over it, paint it, and service the engine before dropping it in the truck.

What glow plugs are supposed to look like, and what 7/8 of them do:



What I unearthed from the grease:



Any ideas about getting this sucker out without pulling the head are highly welcome.

 

No usefull suggestions but for what it's worth, I feel your pain! I discovered one like that fall before last and it stayed like that! The truck worked fine through the winter on onyl 4 plugs working so I figure it would work awesome 7!

 

if it was me, and the engine was out....

I would take a 5/16 nut, lay it over that, and weld the nut to the GP.

 

Hmmm, it's worth a shot. Doesn't look like there's a lot left to weld to, but I really can't lose trying it.

Haha, I have a feeling if the trick NMB2 suggested doesn't do the trick, it's going to stay like that. Seven out of eight ain't bad.

This engine is only to get me through until I get around to building the 6.9 towards the end of the spring/summer. It's fairly low mileage, but I'm not doing anything other then maintenance to it, and running it.

The truck that the engine came out of was a plow truck, used on salty roads; it's tin's are pretty well rotted away. Something tells me that the other glows have been replaced before, and that this one's been left in there like that for a while.

 

Yep, NMB2 suggestion sound's good, take one of those dental picks and clean the crap around it, and soak it with some good penetrating oil, first.
Thankfully, there was only one.