Driving down the freeway and blammo! Front plug blows out, rips the coil pack out of it's holder and punches a good dent in the hood! Drove 15 more miles on 5 cylinders to dad's house and parked it. Everyone looks at you like you are a retard when your engine is going PUTT, PUTT, PUTT down the road. Plug basicly ground itself to the cam cover and proceeded to melt the coilpack to holy hell. I get pics up later.

So for the last freakin' week, I've been trying to find the right damned tools to perform a repair w/o taking the head off. Major pain. NO ONE makes the right tools for a deep plug application like the VE. At least not that I could find locally. SR20DEN found a Time kit that might have worked but I already had my existing insert kit modded.

Specific thread is here:
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....21#post4114549

Info is in the stickies and is here
http://forums.maxima.org/showpost.ph...4&postcount=17

 

put the other hood on?


atleast its fixed now

 

I can't say I've ever heard of a plug popping out like that. Dat's cawazy.

In other news, my passenger side power mirror started moving on it's own last week and it wasn't even set on the pass side - it was on driver side at the time.

 

Possessed fish, eh?

 

holy crap, this is crazy. where you driving it hard or just driving?

 

Actually I had this happen to my 86 accord years ago. The dam plug almost went through the hood. (left a rather nice dent tho). At the time I needed to rechase the thread for the plug cause the moron who had the car b4 me cross threaded it but I was rather lazy and kept putting it off cause I also needed to replace the cyl head (dam Honda) and at 18 I was kinda short on cash. Everytime I look back at it I find it rather funny aothough at the time I didn't.

 

had it happen on my brother's car.
he didn't install the plug right so the threaded part stayed in the block! when it blew out

 

+1 for owning a car from the day 1 till it dies

(and not only cars!)

 

Just driving normal. Talked to my neighbor about it. He says "never had one blow out in the 15 years I've been wrenching". Figures

 

I don't think maximas like you jeff...

 

how the heck did it blow out? the threads on the plug stripped?

 

we had a old v6 ranger that did this to all 6... sounded like gunfire

 

My dad was into weapon design a few decades ago and he came up with a design of a machine gun, powered with gasoline direct injection, propelling slugs at the rate of about 3000-4000 shots/sec. He had calculations done and offered it to the former Soviet Union military. He had an interview with one of the heads of aircraft weapon industry, who failed to understand all major points and kept mumbling: 'The US cannot build a direct injection car, how do you expect us to build a direct injection cannon?'

Finally my dad gave up the idea, because he figured that a blast from such a cannon would stop any jet fighter in the air within a second due to the mass of ammunition being much more than the mass of fuel, burned by the jet engine for the same interval.

Long story short: gasoline is as good propellant, as gunpowder. No wonder that as soon as the thread is badly stripped on the plug, it goes ariborn.

 

thats nuts man

 

It must have been the JWT ECU. You had better give it to me for safe keeping

 

Man... I expected a noob to tear up an engine like that... never you Jeff.

 

Thats why we torque to manufacturers spec

 

it doesn't matter what it's torqued to when you've got 2 of the big ones in the trunk and you were double clutching not granny shifting like you should be.

 

wow jeff, what an ordeal. glad to hear your up and running again.




Aren't we all glad this isn't a common problem

 

Most people don't. Its pretty high too, around 10-14 ft.lbs.

 

High Maybe for a sparkplug yes... but actually being a high torque...

Come work at my shop... we have a truck that the wheel has to be torqued to 320 lbs.ft.

 

They probably were. Just didn't stay that way.

 

I just realized the last person to touch my spark plugs was Jeff!

I had better go out and check them...








just messing with ya, jeff.

hopefully, everything will go OK on the car for you.