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Big Time Screw up!! - 4/6/2007 6:55:42 PM    Lance1   Posts: 2 Joined: 4/6/2007 Status: offline Hi all.   I have a 1995 intrepid and this is what led up to the Big Screw Up! My car was running smooth for about a year and out of the blue it started sputtering and hesitating so I thought, fuel filter! I replaced it and the car ran a lot smoother but still sputtered a bit. I got new plugs and replaced 5 and at the 6th plug, the one at the back passenger side, was tougher then the others as you well know and while installing the new plug I cross threaded the plug and trashed the threads on the block so I went a got a plug rethread kit and rethreaded the block being very careful not to contaminate the cylinder. I got everything buttoned up and fired it up, it cranked and BANG!! That is pretty much the way it sounded. The car will not turn over. I backed the flywheel up and tried again and got the same thing. I pulled the plug I rethreaded and it was smashed! What the @#$* I removed all the plugs and tried turning it over again and got the same thing. What is the problem? Did something, maybe a valve break? Sorry for the long drawn-out post but I’m a little stressed right now.   Any insight is much appreciated.   Lance.                              Post #: 1

RE: Big Time Screw up!! - 4/6/2007 7:16:53 PM    Captain Squalus Posts: 1607 Joined: 2/24/2007 Status: offline I am not familiar with that head but it might be possable the between the stripping and rethreading a valve seat may have worked lose and is now holding a valve open which the piston is hitting. Pull your valve cover off and look at the valves on that cylinder to see if one off them is open. _____________________________ 06 2500 QC Thunder Road 4x4 auto long bed CTD. 67 17' Century Resorter, 427 ford side oiler. 72 21' Century Coronado, dual quad 440 Chrysler Cessna 172C, O-300 Continetal Cessna 150G, O-200 Continetal (in reply to Lance1) Post #: 2

RE: Big Time Screw up!! - 4/6/2007 7:54:41 PM    Lance1   Posts: 2 Joined: 4/6/2007 Status: offline Thanks for your reply Captain Squalus, I will look into that in the morning.   (in reply to Captain Squalus) Post #: 3

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