Long story short I bought a 93 Fox off eBay without seeing the car in person, I know that I deserve what’s been coming.
Anyway this car is modded quit a bit but has a good amount of problems. First issue I need to take care of is a stripped spark plug hole. In doing a tune up to try and get this car running better I found 1 plug stripped. As I was threading a new plug in it felt a little loose but I got it hand tight. I then went to just snug it up and it slips. It will snug up by hand and feel tight but if I go anymore it slips. So I saw some guys like timeserts but I didn’t see anyone’s opinion on using them with TFS heads.
I’d like to give more info on the heads but I don’t even know the model number for sure without taking off the valve cover. I believe the main poor running engine issue was related to bad gasket seals on the lower intake to heads. So I already have the intake off and now I’m saying I should take that head off and fix that plug hole now. I’m not afraid of attempting the timeserts, I just wanted to get some first hand experience opinions. Also, do you think I should just pull both heads and timesert all the plugs? I only ask because the other plugs felt a little loose while hand thr adding them in but they did snug up tight and not slip.
Thanks,
John
Anyway this car is modded quit a bit but has a good amount of problems. First issue I need to take care of is a stripped spark plug hole. In doing a tune up to try and get this car running better I found 1 plug stripped. As I was threading a new plug in it felt a little loose but I got it hand tight. I then went to just snug it up and it slips. It will snug up by hand and feel tight but if I go anymore it slips. So I saw some guys like timeserts but I didn’t see anyone’s opinion on using them with TFS heads.
I’d like to give more info on the heads but I don’t even know the model number for sure without taking off the valve cover. I believe the main poor running engine issue was related to bad gasket seals on the lower intake to heads. So I already have the intake off and now I’m saying I should take that head off and fix that plug hole now. I’m not afraid of attempting the timeserts, I just wanted to get some first hand experience opinions. Also, do you think I should just pull both heads and timesert all the plugs? I only ask because the other plugs felt a little loose while hand thr adding them in but they did snug up tight and not slip.
Thanks,
John