I had posted a message on this forum in regards to my 02 F-250 with a Triton V-10 having popping noises from the exhaust tail pipe. A forum member suggested that it may be a COP "Coil on plug" issue. Well, I used the old Google search and ended up at the Consumer Affairs web site and there was a photo and article about a man in California with 1997 F-250 and the truck was a total due to spark plugs spitting out! the plug hit the fuel rail and that was it!! when they come loose, they spit out and may hit the fuel rail which is located right near the plug area and will or may cause a fire. According to Consumer Affairs, Ford and the NHTSA do not find this alarming nor a concern. Just thought I'd inform you guys and share this.

 

The plug spitting issue is well known to most of the V10 crowd here. Many V10 owners never had this issue and if they do I never heard of it causing a fire. I think I would play the lottery if that happened to me cause my slim to none chances just went up.

 

And what's really funny is:

The triton V10 wasn't put into the F250 until 1999.

In 1997, it was still the old 460.

Can anyone smell a troll?

 

I sure do

 

LOL..

New user...

Posts about plugs blowing out and setting the truck on fire....

Ya, ok...

Don't

Feed

The

Troll

 

Feed the troll if you want, I dont see a troll though. He said he has an 02 V10, didn't say the truck in question was a V10. In 97 the F250 was a light duty variant that looked like an F150 and had the 5.4 Plug Spittin Triton. I guess anything's possible, but I aint gonna lose any more sleep over it than the cruise control switch "possibly" causing a fire...

BTW, it says new user under his name based on number of posts, even though he's been here 2 years, kinda like me, but I've been around since '04... Just cuz it says new user, doesn't mean new user, just means "doesn't post much"...

 

Nope, isn't a troll.

It wasn't a V-10, but it was a Triton engine in the 1997 F-250. Here's the article:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news0...plug_fire.html

 

OH yes, that "consumeraffairs.com" website that has NOTHING to do with the gov't or any other agency...

This came up a while ago, and I will say the following, and the thread is closed:

A California lawyer got 8 or so people together that had a plug blowout. The lawyer wrote up the complaint in such a way saying they all had safety issues with it, almost got creamed on the freeway, etc. etc.

When the NHTSA investigated and actually interviewed the people, they came up with a different story - no safety issues, engine continued to run, were able to get off at the next exit, or safely to the shoulder etc.

The one case where it actually took out the fuel rail, the engine quit IMMEDIATELY because of loss of fuel pressure, no big gas leak, no fire, no nothing.

The NHTSA, when they found out all the people's stories were different than what the lawyer put in the complaint, decided to squash it because the lawyer outright LIED.

Case closed.

That's the reason the NHTSA never did anything about it - the lawyer lied the first time, they closed the investigation, and refused to do anything about it afterwards.

The "consumeraffairs.com" article about it, I can not corroborate at all - the NHTSA investigation that I mentioned above found no fire. None.

I have read a copy of the NHTSA investigation, Ford's responses on their letterhead, everything about that investigation.

Sorry...

 

To all, I apologize for calling the OP a "troll" even though I didn't exactly say it that way

This topic has been done to death, and I reacted badly.

Again, I apologize.