so the last few days I have noticed a tick/knocking sound....figured I was going to throw a rod or something. Well...today I was heading up a little hill and all of a sudden kaboom!!! sounded like I threw a rod, smoke blowing, and some loud knocking. I figured I was hosed but popped the hood to see the spark plug dangling and sparking against the fender well. What a relief...some how the plug worked its way loose and that was the ticking/knocking noise. So i put er back together and no noises......runs like a champ.

 

so if anyone has any ticking or knocking, check your plugs first

Holy garbanzo beans! You are a lucky man!

Strange, this just happened to me about 3 weeks ago. Sounded and felt to me like I had developed a major exhaust leak and blown a tire all at the same time. Mine was the #4 plug and it took me a good long while to find.

 

Any ideas on why this happens (yes I torqued my plugs to recomendation)?

 

so the last few days I have noticed a tick/knocking sound....figured I was going to throw a rod or something. Well...today I was heading up a little hill and all of a sudden kaboom!!! sounded like I threw a rod, smoke blowing, and some loud knocking. I figured I was hosed but popped the hood to see the spark plug dangling and sparking against the fender well. What a relief...some how the plug worked its way loose and that was the ticking/knocking noise. So i put er back together and no noises......runs like a champ.

 

so if anyone has any ticking or knocking, check your plugs first

Wow, it didn't screw up the threads in the head?

You're not home free yet. The threads are usually damaged when the engine spits out a plug. You can re-install the plug OK, but the engine spits it out again after a few days to a couple of weeks. I hope you got lucky.

You're not home free yet. The threads are usually damaged when the engine spits out a plug. You can re-install the plug OK, but the engine spits it out again after a few days to a couple of weeks. I hope you got lucky.

 

I'll be sure to keep my ears open for the ticking/knocking sounds and will check the tightness over the next few days/weeks. Any cure for it if it is in fact dabaged threads now??

Only thing you can do is drill, retap and incert a specific spark plug heli-coil. best way to do this is to remove the head, but i've seen it done on fords at my shop without removing the head, it takes a special tool, but it works.

plug is still in and has not come loose at all...just to update ya

if you have to put a heli coil in it would be in your best interest to take off the head, our threads are aluminum, witch means that if when you re-tap ,anything drops inside the cylendar, you cant use a magnet to get it out, all you can do is hope that it gets spit out the exhaust valve before it f's the wall up. on a ford, they can use a magnet to remove any debris