Glow plug ejected while going 70mph

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Mar 10, 2005 | 08:51 AM

Kliphton

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Glow plug ejected while going 70mph

I was driving home from work yesterday and I had the driver side rear glow plug eject. What in the bald headed @#!% would make it do that???? I was to ****ed to mess with it yesterday. I will look at it tonight. Any ideas on what I should look for or what would have caused it?

Oh yeah it's a '93 F-250 7.3L extCab 5spd 4x4. Engine was ovehauled about 50,000 miles ago.

Mar 10, 2005 | 09:16 AM

RawPower

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Were the threads on either end damage? Was the GP tip broken off? It would have to strip the threads on either theh GP or the cylinder head in order to come out...or just plain break in hte center.

Mar 10, 2005 | 10:07 AM

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Sounds like it wasn't quite tight enough. Hope it didn't mess up the threads. My Snap on metric tap set didn't have the right size in it to clean up a hole. I think it needed an 11 mm x 1.0 pitch (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

Mar 10, 2005 | 11:56 AM

Kliphton

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I looked at it. Apparently the damn thing just rattled out. Bought a new one and it screwed right it. Thanks for the responses. I guess I over reacted.

Mar 10, 2005 | 07:48 PM

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Nice to be lucky just the same!!

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Originally Posted by Kliphton

I looked at it. Apparently the damn thing just rattled out. Bought a new one and it screwed right it. Thanks for the responses. I guess I over reacted.

Mar 11, 2005 | 10:25 AM

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You might want to check the tightness of the other 7 GPs.

Mar 11, 2005 | 11:01 AM

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[QUOTE=Kliphton]I was driving home from work yesterday and I had the driver side rear glow plug eject. What in the bald headed @#!% would make it do that???? I was to ****ed to mess with it yesterday. I will look at it tonight. Any ideas on what I should look for or what would have caused it?

Any damage from it? I have heard of them poking a hole in the bonnet when they let go.I suddenly have a mental vision of someone checking their tranny fluid when that plug let go!!!!!!!!!OUCH.