white smoke

[renee]

its a 99 ford expedition 5.4 liter eddie bauer edition it was running a little rough that's what made me change them i had someone change them about a year ago

 

[renee]

the engine light was never on either

 

[toms89]

but wouldn't the smoke smell sweet instead of like gas? The third spark plug i had to use a chaser on do u think it is the oil i used to lub the chaser?

Did you just run a tap through to clean threads or did you install a timesert?

 

[renee]

well i got the chaser and couldn't get it to thread thru then i got a tap and before i went to tap i was making sure there was no shavings from the chaser and found out the mechanic who did the plugs a year ago left a bolt in the hole so all the time and money was pretty much wasted all my plugs needed to be changed tho cylinder 4 was barely getting any fire

 

[sgtowing]

but wouldn't the smoke smell sweet instead of like gas? The third spark plug i had to use a chaser on do u think it is the oil i used to lub the chaser?

OOOOOPS. I missed that part. Now that I see that, I agree with Tom.

 

[toms89]

well i got the chaser and couldn't get it to thread thru then i got a tap and before i went to tap i was making sure there was no shavings from the chaser and found out the mechanic who did the plugs a year ago left a bolt in the hole so all the time and money was pretty much wasted all my plugs needed to be changed tho cylinder 4 was barely getting any fire

So you were attempting to install a timesert but one already was installed?!

 

[sgtowing]

well i got the chaser and couldn't get it to thread thru then i got a tap and before i went to tap i was making sure there was no shavings from the chaser and found out the mechanic who did the plugs a year ago left a bolt in the hole so all the time and money was pretty much wasted all my plugs needed to be changed tho cylinder 4 was barely getting any fire

Yes I can be a little slow. A BOLT for a plug, thats a new one.

 

[toms89]

Well speculating here based on your post....

You were attempting to put a timesert in and doing step 1...reaming the hole out but found a steel timesert was already installed which had stopped the reamer??

Is this correct?