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Would like to take a survey of who has had this problem, along with listing of pertinent details. I'll start:
Vehicle: 1995LX
Mileage at time: 72,500
Age: car awas about 6 years old at the time.
Symptoms: None.
Resoultion: Jasper rebuilt engine installed. Still going strong after more than another 165,000 miles (as of December 2016).
Other: Had been running a little rough at the time due to me not knowing that those "100,000 mile" tune up intervals actually require cleaning and regapping the double platinum plugs every 30.000 miles. Car never overheated. When it happened I had holes in the engine block and there was oil all over the engine bay. I thought that the engine bay would never be clean again.
Similar thread in Ford Focus forum:
http://www.focusfanatics.com/forum/show ... p?t=254262
Four part Youtube series on how to fix this:
http://www.feoa.net/threads/four-part-series-on-repairing-after-valve-seat-drop.103129/
Vehicle: 1995LX
Mileage at time: 72,500
Age: car awas about 6 years old at the time.
Symptoms: None.
Resoultion: Jasper rebuilt engine installed. Still going strong after more than another 165,000 miles (as of December 2016).
Other: Had been running a little rough at the time due to me not knowing that those "100,000 mile" tune up intervals actually require cleaning and regapping the double platinum plugs every 30.000 miles. Car never overheated. When it happened I had holes in the engine block and there was oil all over the engine bay. I thought that the engine bay would never be clean again.
Similar thread in Ford Focus forum:
http://www.focusfanatics.com/forum/show ... p?t=254262
Four part Youtube series on how to fix this:
http://www.feoa.net/threads/four-part-series-on-repairing-after-valve-seat-drop.103129/