Oh noooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Just a thought here, but could the ceramic have been chipped by Ford when they assembled the engine? These motors get thrown together pretty fast and a busted plug could have been slipped in there without notice. I'm sure a missing piece of ceramic like that wouldn't affect how it performed so you'd never know. Did you hear it crunch when you loosened it? Is the broken section clean like a fresh break?
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But before you do anything else, just spend a $1 or $2 and try the mirror trick. It could just be sitting there
Vacuum is your best bet though
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well i put it all together and fired it up and it sounded like a champ!
till i noticed i can hear the peice of porclin banging around in my cylinder hahaha
i guess im going to pull that plug and hope it blows it out of the hole...
till i noticed i can hear the peice of porclin banging around in my cylinder hahaha
i guess im going to pull that plug and hope it blows it out of the hole...
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Seriously.....pull the plug....get a vacum.....any one either a shop or a home one....go to a farm store and buy a chunk of small like 3/8 tubing and tape it to the vac hose.....stick that down into the cylinder through the spark plug hole and get any small pieces out.........like a 5 dollar fix at worst
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Seriously.....pull the plug....get a vacum.....any one either a shop or a home one....go to a farm store and buy a chunk of small like 3/8 tubing and tape it to the vac hose.....stick that down into the cylinder through the spark plug hole and get any small pieces out.........like a 5 dollar fix at worst
Jeeze, it gets kind of confusing when he's got 4 threads going about a spark plug change.
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