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Old Nov 24, 2009 | 9:30 AM
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Default Spark plug installation questions

Overtorquing can weaken the threads or just plain strip them out. Generally, unless the plug was very loose before it blew out, all the threads follow and then you need to repair them somehow I prefer a timesert to a helicoil.
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