the no.2 spark plug on my galaxy kept coming loose. i'd tighten it up and a week later it would be loose again. it would sometimes cause a bit of a misfire, but wasn't the end of the world.
anyway, yesterday morning i was driving along and the plug was blown out with an almighty bang. the plug itself being made of steel was still mint, but the thread in the aluminium cylinder head has been stripped.
i needed to get home from suffolk to sussex this morning, so effected what i thought would be a temporary repair at best, and 'glued' the plug in with
http://www.bostik.co.uk/diy/product/...poxy-Putty/125
to my surprise, i started it up this morning and it didn't just fire it straight back out again so i let it warm up a bit and went gently around the block a few times expecting it to pop out anytime, when it didn't i did a few loops of a dual carriageway and it survived so i set off for home driving like a vicar and it made it with no problems
anyway, i obviously can't leave it glued in like that as it is bound to pop out at sometime, and it makes servicing slightly inconvenient (on 160k miles now, with new plugs only 10k miles ago, so doesn't need them anytime soon) so i want to make a permanent repair somehow.
ideally i'd like to do something that doesn't involve removing the head, something like a helicoil.
can anyone recommend a kit, a garage local to horsham that they know of that does it, or if anyone local has a kit themselves that wouldn't mind helping out?
the helicoil seems like a reasonable option, but the wuerth time serts appear to be even better
http://www.wurth.co.uk/products/600601