Hi guys, I'm new here and I like the site. I recently had a sparkplug eject on my 01' 5.4L at 132,000. After reading about the problem I decided just to replace the cylinder heads. There is a company in Florida called Odessa Cylinder Head that re-man these heads with all 8 Lock-n-stitch inserts. For a $610.00 both heads and free shipping. I went this route to try to make this truck last. I'm pulling the engine apart now and heads with be here sometime next week. what all should I replace and redo while I have it apart. I got the gaskets, head bolts and new plugs on order. Should I do the timing chains, guides, and tensioners? Any hard to reach sensors that should be changed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Jake.

 

id do chains, guides, and tensioners while im there. just easier to do it sooner than later.

 

Didn't want to do the Timesert for the blown plug?

 

Could not do time-sert, Previous owner already had fixed with a hellicoil. The hole is very out of round like a teardrop, possible crack. The way my luck works it would blow another sparkplug in the middle of nowhere. I guess Lock-n-stitch is the ford approved fix. I figure if I buy the timesert kit and the double oversize kit it could fix it, but if not i'm in a head anyway. Local machine shop wanted 50 bucks per sparkplug hole. Not including get the heads to spec.

I will take photos of the head once it's off the truck and the new ones. Maybe some photos of the process. I can post them on the forum.

 

This is kinduh crazy. A 20 min fix done the hard, long and expensive way.

Could have rented the kit that works. -

https://www.f150online.com/forums/ch...rs-galaxy.html

And/or used a double or triple sert if needed -

http://www.pendergrasstool.com/kits/spark_plug.htm

All you had to do was ask.

 

lets hope that company uses short inserts and aluminum ones at that