Disregard... wrong section..

 

But now we are curious...what did you do?

 

Ok.. just copying and pasting... I think I know what I gotz to do now so tomorrow we'll see how it goes.
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So today..after a couple weeks of gathering parts/tools.. I began the arduous task of replacing the spark plugs on the wife's 05 expy (5.4 triton). I've read the horror stories but felt that I was prepared and had prepared.

Well I got the first plug out no issue, the 2nd broke but I had already bought the lisle tool. It worked great..moved on to the 3rd plug and it broke but this time the tool has failed me or I have failed the tool. Either way I feel screwed.

For those that have used this tool you are familiar with the procedure. I put the pusher screw in and tightened it down. And when I went to put the puller screw in I thought I had a good bite into the broken piece. Started to twist the nut to get the piece pulled out and instead I stripped a couple of threads on the tool itself. It appears that only the first 2 threads got ahold of the broken tip.

I tried pushing the porcelain into the tip again just to be sure it did get pushed down far enough and tried again. This time though the tool will tighten up slightly but then loosen.. great...

So I figure the threads on the tool have me jacked up so I went to the parts store to get another lisle tool. Unfortunately the one they had has been used but the puller screw appeared to be in slightly better shape than my own. Came home and it felt like it was tightening up pretty good..go to twist the nut and the tool pops out of the broken tip. *&$%#

Have a I royally screwed this up or should I go find a brand NEW lisle tool (puller screw) with nice, fresh threads and try again?

Any other tricks?

B.

 

This isn't the wrong section for that, but you might do better by using a more direct title for the thread, something along the lines of "need help with broken plug".

 

Yikes! Other than a new tool I can't think if anything. I changed mine out last Thanksgiving and all 8 plugs broke. I was careful to use the tool exactly as the instructions stated and all 8 plug tips came out with no more drama than some shards of porcelain falling into the cylinder. Vacuumed those out as best I could with some thin plastic tubing duct taped to my shop vac and I haven't had any problems since. I did learn that the Lisle tool will wear in the course of fulfilling its destiny.