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["John Teller" <jteller@domain.elided>]

Quoting Steve Stegmann & John Landry:

>>Yesterday,  I inspected the plug holes with a small inspection
mirror and 
>>magnet.  No visible damage and no filings came out.  All 8 new
plugs 
>>started easily and went in with fingers only.
>
>Thank God it doesn't have aluminum heads... like my Subaru GL-10...
which I
>cross threaded!  That was my "once in a lifetime" but I picked the
wrong
>engine instead of a stout IH.

Or for that matter, like a VW beetle.  My first car was a 40-horse
wheezer that came with not one cross-threaded sparkplug hole, but
THREE!!  I ended up shooting heli-coils into all four plug holes. 
Made replacing sparkplugs much easier after that.

John Teller
1971 Travelall 1110 (Currently in Disgrace)