Tonight driving home not even being hard on the car at all. The nitrous is not even done being installed so I wasnt running that. Im in the slow lane just enjoying a drive and the car starts to studder real bad in 5th gear. I look down thinking ok just going to slow for this gear so down shift and it doesnt go away.
Turn the radio off and slow down to get a better listen. Driving slugish, almost thought a tire was down so pulled over and nothing but the car sounds like its on 4 cylinders not 8.
Baby it home at 2grand. No codes are throwing but fuel smell is very obvious. I get in the garage, pull the intake no dirt on the MAF. Pull the passenger coil cover cause its there and oil is all around 3rd cylinder (not sure which number it is techically but its 3rd from rear of the motor on passenger side) and there is rubber all over the place.
I pull the coil pack thinking there would be resistance and nothing.....There it comes with the wire all wrapped up on itself. Ok, bad coil.
Pull the plug and when I put the socket on it there was loose feeling. No turns no nothing. Pull out the socket to see WTF and there is the plug in the socket.
The damn thing just blew out. Here are pictures.
I can replace the plugs and the coil pack. What worries me most is those last 3 threads on that plug are mangled and if I have to get head work done now to repair those threads or if that hole if even fubar beyond any backyard repair???
Can it be as easy as running a thread cleaner down in there and just putting in new plugs and coil pack on that cylinder?