alright since i'm 3 hours from home i decided to find a local place to do it.

for 175 he's putting the thread insert in. the guy uses the fulltorque thread kit. it can be found online at fulltorque.com. i had to purchase the coil and spark plug so i'm hoping for around 240 bucks it's a good fix instead of towing it home and doing it myself.

has anyone worked with the fulltorque kit? it says that it's the only one that ford suggests to use in a technical service bulletin.

 

It sounds like a really good deal to me!
Rich

 

well it would have been a really good deal until the guy who was doing it hit the valve with the reamer or tap, fml.

he was reasonable though, at least i think so, quoted at 1100 to remove head, replace the valve and gaskets and fix everything back to the way it was, and he knocked it down to 550 and i don't have to pay for the original spark plug repair...i guess 175 was too good to be true.

 

Alright 8 days and 550 dollars later the repair is done to my truck.
the guy went in pulled the head and replaced the valve.
luckily i didn't have to pay the 1100 to fix it.
i have the old valve and it is chewed up pretty bad and bent.
now just to get to trusting my truck again after someone else
did work on it.
is there anyway to prevent this without having to put inserts in?

 

I did the time sert kit myself. The first thing you do is make sure the piston is down low in the cylinder and is at the start of the compression stroke! This way the valves are closed. It seems he screwed up this part. Nice of you to let him off the hook. I'm sure he didn't make much on the job due to his mistake. At least he was honest. Alot of people have spent way more than you did to get that repair!
Chris

 

If I were home I would definitely done it myself. But I understand the technique behind it but lack of tools and a garage. I mean he said he had never had that problem, I guess you can't trust a man's word sometimes but he was very honest and he reminds me of someone my dad would go to if you know what i'm saying. I was lucky to get the repair done that cheap I guess but unlucky since I've been at school. going to do an alternator swap in a parking lot during finals week. It's not hard but it's the fact that all the problems couldn't happen at home but at school.