Spark plug freakin' blew out!
06-30-2005, 12:11 AM
#1
Spark plug freakin' blew out!
Driving down the freeway and blammo! Front plug blows out, rips the coil pack out of it's holder and punches a good dent in the hood! Drove 15 more miles on 5 cylinders to dad's house and parked it. Everyone looks at you like you are a retard when your engine is going PUTT, PUTT, PUTT down the road. 
Plug basicly ground itself to the cam cover and proceeded to melt the coilpack to holy hell. I get pics up later.
So for the last freakin' week, I've been trying to find the right damned tools to perform a repair w/o taking the head off. Major pain. NO ONE makes the right tools for a deep plug application like the VE. At least not that I could find locally. SR20DEN found a Time kit that might have worked but I already had my existing insert kit modded.
Specific thread is here:
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....21#post4114549
Info is in the stickies and is here
http://forums.maxima.org/showpost.ph...4&postcount=17
Plug basicly ground itself to the cam cover and proceeded to melt the coilpack to holy hell. I get pics up later. So for the last freakin' week, I've been trying to find the right damned tools to perform a repair w/o taking the head off. Major pain. NO ONE makes the right tools for a deep plug application like the VE. At least not that I could find locally. SR20DEN found a Time kit that might have worked but I already had my existing insert kit modded.
Specific thread is here:
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....21#post4114549
Info is in the stickies and is here
http://forums.maxima.org/showpost.ph...4&postcount=17
Last edited by Greeny; 11-09-2007 at 05:34 PM.
06-30-2005, 05:16 AM
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I can't say I've ever heard of a plug popping out like that. Dat's cawazy.
In other news, my passenger side power mirror started moving on it's own last week and it wasn't even set on the pass side - it was on driver side at the time.
In other news, my passenger side power mirror started moving on it's own last week and it wasn't even set on the pass side - it was on driver side at the time.
06-30-2005, 06:21 AM
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Actually I had this happen to my 86 accord years ago. The dam plug almost went through the hood. (left a rather nice dent tho). At the time I needed to rechase the thread for the plug cause the moron who had the car b4 me cross threaded it but I was rather lazy and kept putting it off cause I also needed to replace the cyl head (dam Honda) and at 18 I was kinda short on cash. Everytime I look back at it I find it rather funny aothough at the time I didn't.
06-30-2005, 07:52 AM
#9
Just driving normal. Talked to my neighbor about it. He says "never had one blow out in the 15 years I've been wrenching". Figures 
Originally Posted by tripleGmax
holy crap, this is crazy. where you driving it hard or just driving?
06-30-2005, 09:39 AM
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My dad was into weapon design a few decades ago and he came up with a design of a machine gun, powered with gasoline direct injection, propelling slugs at the rate of about 3000-4000 shots/sec. He had calculations done and offered it to the former Soviet Union military. He had an interview with one of the heads of aircraft weapon industry, who failed to understand all major points and kept mumbling: 'The US cannot build a direct injection car, how do you expect us to build a direct injection cannon?'
Finally my dad gave up the idea, because he figured that a blast from such a cannon would stop any jet fighter in the air within a second due to the mass of ammunition being much more than the mass of fuel, burned by the jet engine for the same interval.
Long story short: gasoline is as good propellant, as gunpowder. No wonder that as soon as the thread is badly stripped on the plug, it goes ariborn.
Finally my dad gave up the idea, because he figured that a blast from such a cannon would stop any jet fighter in the air within a second due to the mass of ammunition being much more than the mass of fuel, burned by the jet engine for the same interval.
Long story short: gasoline is as good propellant, as gunpowder. No wonder that as soon as the thread is badly stripped on the plug, it goes ariborn.
06-30-2005, 04:35 PM
#18
Originally Posted by Joe Fontinyatz
Thats why we torque to manufacturers spec 
06-30-2005, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by eric93SE
Most people don't. Its pretty high too, around 10-14 ft.lbs.
Maybe for a sparkplug yes... but actually being a high torque... 
Come work at my shop... we have a truck that the wheel has to be torqued to 320 lbs.ft.
07-01-2005, 06:41 AM
#23
Originally Posted by Jeff92se
Just driving normal. Talked to my neighbor about it. He says "never had one blow out in the 15 years I've been wrenching". Figures
I had better go out and check them...
just messing with ya, jeff.
hopefully, everything will go OK on the car for you.
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