Okay good new's! I got the rest of them out without a problem. Thanks for the info fellas! I'm not taking my truck to the stealership. I'll pull the head's myself if I have too but i'm good at engineering stuff so i'll make something of my own. If it would have happened at the front of the engine it would be a hell of alot easier. I did learn one thing though. If you don't hear any screaching then then something has broken. All of them screached coming out except for that one plug. Even the rest of the plug's looked great with only a slight amount of rust but nothing major. Hopefully that sleave and porcelan are just sitting their and not actually stuck very tight.

 

well at least you know this is your last big hurtle your in the home stretch now good luck with this last plug.

 

Yea i'm actually not worried anymore. (Well maybe a little worried) I know that this one hurdle is gonna be a tough one but i'll get it extracted somehow.

 

I have had the plugs sitting around the house to change for about a month but I am terrified of breaking them all so I keep finding other projects to work on. :o

 

Yea it took me a while to get enough courage for this job.

 

I have gone to every part's store in town and cannot find a screw small enough to fit down that hole in the middle of the porcelain. I also went by a couple mechanic's and asked about renting the removal tool from one of them and only one mechanic told me he had the tool but he won't rent it out I have to take my truck to his shop and let his mechanic's do it their self. I was set on bringing it to them until he started talking crap about our F150's.(he's a chevy guy) I told him that I would rather deal with this small problem then drive a bucket of nutt's chevy and left his shop.

 

if you check out that thread I linked you to on the bottom of the first page. it will show you what you need.

In short it is:

2-56 screw to go into the porcelain
a 2" standoff tapped for 4-40
4-40 screw to mount into the 3/8-16 rod that is used to pull the sheild

Most of these small screws are found in hobby building shops that have model air planes. I would also check hardware stores for these. Most auto stores will not stock this type of item. They are readily available from other sources just not parts stores.

 

Ok im stupid and never looked at the top of a motorcraft plug. Is there a place that you can screw into on the top with the extraction tool?

 

It's not going into the top of the plug. It screws into the broken off shank far enough to get a grip for pulling it out.

 

Man I am SO scared to do this. 94k and counting on original plugs in a 2004 5.4L...I'll probably do it beginning of summer when school ends.

 

Me too. I just clicked to 87k yesterday. Ive got a good buddy that has the rotunda tool, so if they break I can get the tool. Im just debating on me tryign to do the change, or just take it to him and say take it away captain.


Hey look a llama or camel smily:

 

For the 2-56 screw I was referring to earlier in the thread that is actually going to be glued into the broken porcelain piece. You let the glue dry then uses the same method used to extract the metal shroud.

To get the metal shroud out you tap two or three threads into the metal shroud and screw in a 3/8-16 threaded rod to pull out the left in shroud.

Does that make any sense?


And to the op how is removing that broken plug coming along?

 

Still stuck I can't get it out.

 

Gotchya. Note taken.

 

Sense all the way