I think Im screwed...

[poleclimber63]

Ya! She's back on thr road!

Well, I installed a helicoil spark plug insert this weekend. Great product! Installed flawlessly used grease on the end of the tool, it caught all the shavings. Checked with the bore scope, perfect. This evening, after the loctite set, re-assembled, and she purred to life! All I can say is I recommend everyone should check their plugs every season, at least--- I changed all the plugs and discovered spark plug 6 was also not tight. My 4Runner is back! YAHOO!

 

[Rushthezeppelin]

Stories like this sure make me glad I checked my plugs a few k ago and discovered that the PO used cheap single strap plugs. Gave me a chance to make sure things were torqued up right, that's for sure. Need to replace plug wires sometimes soon too but she's running really good after replacing the upstream o2 sensor. Glad you were able to successfully helicoil repair the head though, that has to be a huge relief.

 

[poleclimber63]

Stories like this sure make me glad I checked my plugs a few k ago and discovered that the PO used cheap single strap plugs. Gave me a chance to make sure things were torqued up right, that's for sure. Need to replace plug wires sometimes soon too but she's running really good after replacing the upstream o2 sensor. Glad you were able to successfully helicoil repair the head though, that has to be a huge relief.

You're not kidding! Huge relief! I was looking at JDM's out of curiosity, when this first happened and they have doubled in price since I did my swap in 2016. I had a second set of coils and ordered spark plugs, wires and tube seals from RockAuto, helicoil and borescope from Amazon. I just had to wait 1.5 weeks and I had everything ready. The work was ridiculously easy. I looked a several videos of thread repair options, and happened on an interesting video. this guy tested several different products and I was interested to see that helicoil time-sert etc held MUCH better than direct threaded aluminum--- makes sense if you think about it. I wonder why manufacturerers don't use thread inserts for spark plugs and heads... cost?

 

[poleclimber63]

I really missed it!

I'm so relieved to have my 4Runner on the road. I had ordered a muffler when this event happened. It arrived while the truck was dead in the driveway, so next weekend I'll replace it. I hope I can remove the O2 sensor without much trouble--- luckily I'm not in the rust belt.

My last good pic:

 

[poleclimber63]

Stories like this sure make me glad I checked my plugs a few k ago and discovered that the PO used cheap single strap plugs. Gave me a chance to make sure things were torqued up right, that's for sure. Need to replace plug wires sometimes soon too but she's running really good after replacing the upstream o2 sensor. Glad you were able to successfully helicoil repair the head though, that has to be a huge relief.

All is good! Finished the muffler replacement, wow, really easy-- probably the easiest exhaust job I've done on any vehicle, she's smooth (since the plug replacement/helicoil insert) and quiet once again!

 

[popsmckracken]

Anyone got a link to the time cert and Helicoil kits for this job for this Job on my 2000? Not sure which one to order.

Parts numbers??

MIne just took a shit and I'm stranded out at the very end of the 4x4 area on Carova Beach, OBX. Thank god I have my Coleman mini-bike to get to the mail boxes to pick up parts. Help a brother out?

 

[162435]

If you haven't already purchased a Heli-Coil kit, I recommend at least familiarizing yourself with Time-Serts. I think they're better; others may disagree.

+ TIME-SERT? SPARK PLUG THREAD REPAIR KITS + spark plug stripped thread repair kits for spark plug problems, thread stripped spark plug repairs in damaged threads in spark plug hole stripped out approved thread repair, aluminum head spark plug repair

Agree.


Andreas

 

[popsmckracken]

Thanks , but I saw that link in the thread. All that does is take me to a website. I was hoping someone could tell me what exact Heli-coil kit to get , size wise? I guess it's just 14x1.25?

 

[poleclimber63]

Anyone got a link to the time cert and Helicoil kits for this job for this Job on my 2000? Not sure which one to order.

Parts numbers??

MIne just took a shit and I'm stranded out at the very end of the 4x4 area on Carova Beach, OBX. Thank god I have my Coleman mini-bike to get to the mail boxes to pick up parts. Help a brother out?

Sorry, just noticed your post! If you haven't solved your problem yet, this is what I ordered off Amazon:

If you're on the trail , use lots of grease on the end of the cutting tool, the great thing about this is it uses the original hole to centre the tap so no drilling required! Good luck!

 

[poleclimber63]

Thanks , but I saw that link in the thread. All that does is take me to a website. I was hoping someone could tell me what exact Heli-coil kit to get , size wise? I guess it's just 14x1.25?

See my last post, the kit number is at the top of the package, in the pic.