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At least you won't hear the Whoot-ik-a

 

I guess that guy has never heard of a tow truck.

If my truck blew a plug no way I'd drive it anywhere.

 

Actually, it won't hurt anything driving it like that.

The only thing you have to do is disconnect the fuel injector. Even though Ford's OBD-II implementation should shut off the injector when it detects a misfiring cylinder, I'm not entirely sure the pre-2002 ones will...

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/5...t-come-on.html

 

Looks like a neat idea. My luck the plug would blow out in the middle of the night, no flashlight or tools, so I wouldn't be able to use it anyway...lol

 

And as the plug erupts it will take out the fuel rail with it and have gas leak down on the exhaust manifold and catch fire.

 

Maybe they should makes sparkplugs out of those "plugs".

 

mine blew out while towing my jeep from tellico about 120mi from the house.
pulled the FI plug and kept going. although the fuel mi went to hell, i still kept up with the convoy going 80mph !

 

As far as I know, that's only happened to ONE F150. And that's questionable, being it's on that lawyer's "consumer protection" website.

 

I see 5 or 6 plugs a year blow out and I've lost one in each of my current vehicles. I've only seen one factory plug exit a head (cop car, go figure). None I've ever seen have gotten out of the coil boot or caused any damage past the coil.
Many can be fixed with a GOOD repair kit,(thats how I fixed my Excursion) but most kits don't use a good enough insert to hold properly and are therefore considered temporary repairs. My '01 F250 is currently awaiting parts for this repair because the hole was to damaged to accept an insert (due to poor quality helicoil installed previous to my ownership).
My experience says it's not a Ford issue but the fact that aluminum requires different handling than cast iron heads as evidenced that almost every case I've seen has had aftermarket plugs in them, meaning they weren't changed by a Ford dealer or technician. I can't even guess how many plugs I've changed at 100k intervals and never had one come out, yet both of my current vehicles (bought used with low mileages, 53k and 69k, had plugs replaced which blew out). The engine should be cool, the plugs should be torqued properly and I highly recommend Motorcraft plugs.
By the way when I lost the plug on my Excursion I simply unplugged the coil and injector and drove 75 miles home at 60+ no problem, except fuel mileage, but I only get 9-10 anyway so how bad is 7 really? LOL

 

I wonder how many people are going to use that and have piston to plug contact?

 

That has got to be one of the worst idea's i have ever seen. Just wow.

 

It's only a band-aid to plug the hole - it's not meant to allow a spark plug to stay in there...

 

Its just a rubber expansion plug. There is no collar or anything to keep you from putting it in to far. Someone is going to gouge a piston.

 

Here's what I liked about it:

A 1/2" wrench? Gee...whooda thunk I could use that? Open or boxed end, ya reckon?

 

I don't know why you'd think that - the plug is about the diameter of the recess in the head, the entire rubber plug isn't going to go through the threaded "plug hole".