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RE: Scary Plug Change - 4/24/2008 12:24:07 PM   
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TY Tigercat for the reply, I found SK sockets in stock at Sears of all places. So when the plugs show up, I will give it a shot, (May the Mustang gods be with me!!)

Has anyone have any comments on how the Champion plugs perform??

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RE: Scary Plug Change - 4/24/2008 2:07:26 PM   
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I all ready ordered a 9/16 sps also a SK thats all I could find up here in the great white north or pay big bucks for snap on ps: I hate chinese tools garbage! A regular deep socket don't chance it  as I had to be carefull and also pull the plugs out with a needle nose!

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RE: Scary Plug Change - 4/24/2008 4:28:27 PM   
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Has anybody else purchased a set of the Brisk Racing Silver plugs? I just did and I was wondering how they perform.

I went and pulled one of the old plugs out to see if there will be any problems but with only 1K miles on the car, there were none and no carbon build up. I'll do the swap tomorrow so I'll post an update then. 

Edit: it's the second one down 497-3VR17YS

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RE: Scary Plug Change - 5/11/2008 6:57:28 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Hicompression

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ORIGINAL: 1990lxhatch

Anti sieze will only buy you a little extra time.... it should be done but it isn't a fix in a bottle.

There is no fix in a bottle. Ever. For anything. Only "band-aids". Kiss my arse if you disagree because you are wrong.


You don't know that for a fact.  It's gonna take someone like myself who pulled the plugs at 96,000 miles and put factory plugs with antiseize on the shields back in another 100,000 miles to see if the antiseize truly works.  Until then, your statement is just an opinion.  And...I ain't gonna kiss your arse <---Ghey.



And so is yours  Let us know at 200,000 miles how the anti-seize held up.

Personally, I'm ditching the two piece design for the Champion one piece design. I have an 08 GT and NO they did not put anti-seize on the plug from the factory. Mine was built in 9/07 and has the revised 10-bolt valve cover with the old style two-piece plugs.

I highly doubt anti-sieze will hold up for 100,000 miles or longer than 15K miles for that matter. It's a brushed on material that is exposed to a high temp, high swirl, environment. There's nothing 'gluing it' to the spark plug.

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RE: Scary Plug Change - 5/11/2008 7:25:44 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Lifter583

TY Tigercat for the reply, I found SK sockets in stock at Sears of all places. So when the plugs show up, I will give it a shot, (May the Mustang gods be with me!!)

Has anyone have any comments on how the Champion plugs perform??


Please excuse me if I have already posted this, but I installed the Champions almost a month ago and they are performing great. I couldn't be any happier.  Not worrying about breakage in the future? Priceless.

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RE: Scary Plug Change - 5/12/2008 8:51:47 AM   
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And so is yours  Let us know at 200,000 miles how the anti-seize held up.

I highly doubt anti-sieze will hold up for 100,000 miles or longer than 15K miles for that matter. It's a brushed on material that is exposed to a high temp, high swirl, environment. There's nothing 'gluing it' to the spark plug.


Ok boss.

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RE: Scary Plug Change - 5/12/2008 10:44:05 AM   
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Lots of conflicting info and some needless bickering in this thread.

If somone with 110K miles sucessfully removed them at home, I tend to agree with LX that maybe they should just be left alone until it's necessary to deal with them. Heck, I may not even own the car anymore at that point, and someone else can deal with it.

If you consider the situation that the plugs are going to be as hard to remove at 50K as 100K, there is not point rushing the procedure. Perhaps by 100k Ford will have taken full responsibility for the problem, and you can just bring the car in and let them dealt with any breakages on their dime. 

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RE: Scary Plug Change - 5/12/2008 5:40:58 PM   
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After reading this enire thread.......I AM NEVER CHANGING OUT MY PLUGS!   This is my 1st Ford too.  I dont really understand why people are removing there plugs so early.  Preventive maintenance can go a long way but are you really sure you will have your car 10 years from now.  I would think stock sparks will last until 80000????  In this case, it seems like overkill to remove the plugs just to apply antisieze & potentially prevent something 10 years later.  I dont understand why the factory doesnt use antisieze on an alluminum head! 

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RE: Scary Plug Change - 5/12/2008 6:30:01 PM   
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ORIGINAL: LS1less

After reading this enire thread.......I AM NEVER CHANGING OUT MY PLUGS!   This is my 1st Ford too.  I dont really understand why people are removing there plugs so early.  Preventive maintenance can go a long way but are you really sure you will have your car 10 years from now.  I would think stock sparks will last until 80000????  In this case, it seems like overkill to remove the plugs just to apply antisieze & potentially prevent something 10 years later.  I dont understand why the factory doesnt use antisieze on an alluminum head! 


80k in 10 years equates to 8k per year. Keep in mind that there are people that put on 3 times that or more miles per year, so they could be looking at 80k+ in 3 years.

In my case I don't put many miles on my GT, but I do plan on keeping it for many years, so I felt "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure", as the saying goes.

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RE: Scary Plug Change - 5/13/2008 8:57:28 AM   
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Keep in mind that there are people that put on 3 times that or more miles per year, so they could be looking at 80k+ in 3 years.


Yep, my '06 is only 2 years old and has 97,000 miles on it.

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