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Originally Posted by Guam135i
I tried to replace my plugs since my car has 62K miles. I bought a thin wall socket an a torque wrench to do it. However when I was removing one plug it felt like it was cross threaded coming out. finally got the plug out and threads looked okay. I tried to install the new plug and I could not get it started by hand the side of the socket was rubbing against the side of the hole. I used a ratchet to get it going but I had to stop because it felt it might cross thread and it's aluminum is this normal?
I need help
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When i changed mine they were tight until i reached the very last few threads. I put a very small drop of anti seize to help with the install and a small bit of die electric grease on the plug to prevent this...
Coil was "frozen onto the plug"