I just spoke to a friend with a 2005 Mustang GT and he told me a horror story about breaking 7 of his spark plugs while trying to to remove them. I searched the forum and found discussions relative to this problem on the V8 model. Does this same plroblem plague the 4.0 V6 model? My car has 9000 miles on it. Should I remove my plugs and put anti sieze on the threads, or is it already too late?
correct me if I am wrong but the V6 has aluminum heads also. There is a lot of talk about #5 cross threading on the V6.I used the anti seize as a percaution and gingerly hand threaded all of the plugs before applying the wrench.
If you break the plug (ceramic part)it should come out easily with a spark plug socket...cross threading is a whole different animal
correct me if I am wrong but the V6 has aluminum heads also. There is a lot of talk about #5 cross threading on the V6.I used the anti seize as a percaution and gingerly hand threaded all of the plugs before applying the wrench.
If you break the plug (ceramic part)it should come out easily with a spark plug socket...cross threading is a whole different animal
I just replaced all of my spark plugs, and put anti-seize on all of them, a couple weeks ago when I heard about this problem. I don't care if it applies to V6's or not, I'm not going to risk a $3k repair bill coming my way when I can spend $37 and avoid it.
I think pcfrish and Stl are talking about the GT spark plugs about the anti-seize.Wondering if we need to use anti-seize on the V6 plugs since with just have the regular type plugs with threads and not the electrode shield like the GT has?Thanks.
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