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Old 10-31-2015, 06:08 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Donald View Post
When I worked for the city we had several of the Triton motor break a plug. We did everything including penetrating oil and nothing worked on the *bad ones*. Ford service recommends something silly like soak for 15 mins then 1/8 turn. Repeat 4x times. That failed too. Some trucks were fine no issues. But the few that were problems were enough to cause hatred of the Triton motor.

Consider yourself lucky I guess. It's not a user thing - its a piss poor OE design.
Piss poor OE design? Sure.

I'd say after 10+ times of doing them on my own 2 cars and helping a large number of friends with their 3V mustangs it wasn't all luck (respectfully, of course)

Penetrating oil + warm engine = "lucky" installs for me.
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