Bobby9779

Got to replace my cylinder head as the spark plug cracked off on service. Stupid previous owner over tightening and not replacing them often enough.

Anyway, got one eyed up on eBay. Is the Fiesta 1.3 endura e the same as the ka endura e of similar year?

3i Jim

Yes they're the same.

gcfcos

Little trick for the future. Fill the plug recesses up with wd40 and get the engine red hot. Turn it off and quickly go to undo the plugs. Never failed for me but seen loads of people break them trying to undo them from cold! Hope u get it sorted

Bobby9779

Cheers guys.

Will try that next time. But for now will hopefully be able to piece it back together and get a small amount of copper grease on the threads to hopefully help prevent it.

Roscopeco

iTrader: (1)

Do as gfcos says next tine but you can get the plug out still , gently remove the rest of the porcelain off the plug and use an easy out to remove the rest . If you do this be extremely careful you don't drop any bits down the plug hole .

studabear

50 or 55 torx bit has been mentioned on here many times, hammered into the remaining bit of plug then extracted.

Bobby9779

I used an easy out. The threads were that tight even that didn't work. Burnt out a drill and bent a breaker bar trying an easy out.

gcfcos

Fook me that's well in there then! You'd be amazed at the amount of people that don't copper grease the threads on spark plugs anymore, especially now we got all these long life services where a car can go many years without a plug change. See lads at work in a massive rush, bonus bonus bonus, just screwing the new ones in with no copper grease.

Bailes1992

I dont particularly like to use copper grease on spark plugs as I've had a few issues with old grease that's gone rock hard and made it difficult to remove the plugs. However if they are replaced yearly copper grease shouldn't be an issue.
I tend to use a ceramic grease these days though, especially on glow plugs.

gcfcos

I've seen some places using the ceramic grease when fitting pads etc. we trialed it at a garage I used to work at for a bit but then went back to copper grease, no idea why but the ceramic
Stuff worked well. In fact when I fitted my brakes on my Cossie there that was about 5 or 6 years ago and u can still see the ceramic on the back of the pads where copper grease would have washed away by now