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The spark plug issues were mainly in the pickups, not the vans. Pickups got a wonky spark plug with a long nose on it that would break off inside the engine when you tried to remove the plug. Different engine design in the vans. Problem with engine spitting out spark plugs was due to Ford's very light torque specifications. Torqued down to 2 or 3 times the recommended value and no more problems. There's several YouTube videos on the subject.

This is what a F series spark plug looked like:


Ford corrected their spark plug issues by model year 2007 if memory serves correctly.

Is this something that could be fixed on-site by just threading it back in? Do the van plugs just walk out, rather than strip out?

Ran into a lady with a van full of kids stranded at a gas station that had this happen, but the only thing I could dig up at the time on the internet was talking about needing threaded inserts and such to fix it.

It was a sunday afternoon, in the middle of nowhere - would have busted out the tools if I thought it was repairable there.
 

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