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This happened to me with a helicoil, I jammed a new plug in and on the first really big hill it blew out and melted away the spark plug hole too. Keith ---------- > From: Sonny8oy@aol.com > To: type3@vwtype3.org > Subject: [T3] pop-out > Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 12:11 AM > > driving along today around town, all of a sudden the car goes pop, and sounds > loud and rough. > turns out it blew #4 spark plug out of the head. this is a plug that had a > threaded insert on it. i managed to put a new plug in with a new threaded > insert on it (last two threads were serrated to help keep it in there; old > one was plain). i'm obviously not very confident that this will last very > long (it lasted a 35 mile low rpm drive home), so what should i do, without > taking the heads off, or anything fancy like that? should i replace the > threaded insert with a helicoiwŸ…ã the head then need tapped? > thanks > > sonny > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/