[s-cars] Loose spark plug disaster

[Mihnea Cotet]

Colin,


Normally a spark plug hole can be helicoiled IIRC. It seems to me someone I
know of in Germany has recently done this...

HTH!

Mihnea

At 11:35 29/03/2003 -0700, colin gans wrote:
>Yes, it happened.
>
>Last week while my wife was driving our 93 S4 the plug from #5 cylinder
>completely unthreaded destroying the spark plug boot and damaging the
>threads in the cylinder head to the point where a new plug can find no
>purchase.
>
>Any BTDT? Can the cylinder head be tapped (?) so that a new plug will be
>secure?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Colin Gans
>
>
>
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