I work at a Ford and deal with spark plug issues on the 5.4. Whenever we have that issue if something is left down in the hole just fire it up with the plug out to clean it out.
Back to topic, I took apart the flathead 6 in the 41 Pontiac I had for a valve job. The valves are upside down of course so when I took the side covers off, there were still a few shop rags stuck under the valves, they were put there to block the keepers from falling down inside the engine . Still dropped a few in the oil pan, left them there a got some new ones.
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Originally Posted by LeighP
Had a spark plug break off and leave the base in the head. Took a lot of playing around with Easi-outs to remove it. I made up a small piece of plastic tube and sealed it into a vacuum cleaner and sucked out any little pieces that were in the piston, crossed my fingers and fired it up with a new plug in it.
There was this pinging rattling sound as a little piece of spark plug bounced around the cylinder, I gave it a quick rev and blew it out of the exhaust valve, lol.
I hope never again to do that......
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