spark plug broke apart in engine! please help
yesterday my car started bucking and backfiring at WOT. so i decided it was time to turn down the boost(its been at 17-19 because of the new exhaust and cold outside) to 15 again. and get some new spark plugs. i have known my spark plugs needed changed for a little while now and thought this was enough of waiting. well i get home let it cool down and then change the plugs. the plugs in the car were horrible bosch platinums, the tips were bent on all but 1 and one was so bad that the center (dont know the technical name for it) spark thingy had fallen out into the engine. so i put the new pugs in(first mistake) and waited till this morning to start the car (only car i have, and i had to work). so i made my self start it and try to go to work(the peace in the engine was making a knocking noise until i started driving, so it seemed OK), hoping the peace in the engine would break apart and leave the engine with out damaging it to bad. well i get out of my neighborhood and 1/4 of the way down the next road when the car starts dieing on me so i pull in a persons driveway and have to restart the car with aplying some gas, around 3k rpm. i drive ti straight back home and force my mother to drive me to work
now heres where i need the help.
1) i would like to know what you all would do, first and foremost
and then tell me if these steps are OKs
1)compression test it
2)pull the head and check the damage
3)clear the pistons and what ever else up
4)put new head gasket on and head(not sure if i need the new head gasket)
5)fire it up
so help me out guys.... thanks in advance
ickes
yesterday my car started bucking and backfiring at WOT. so i decided it was time to turn down the boost(its been at 17-19 because of the new exhaust and cold outside) to 15 again. and get some new spark plugs. i have known my spark plugs needed changed for a little while now and thought this was enough of waiting. well i get home let it cool down and then change the plugs. the plugs in the car were horrible bosch platinums, the tips were bent on all but 1 and one was so bad that the center (dont know the technical name for it) spark thingy had fallen out into the engine. so i put the new pugs in(first mistake) and waited till this morning to start the car (only car i have, and i had to work). so i made my self start it and try to go to work(the peace in the engine was making a knocking noise until i started driving, so it seemed OK), hoping the peace in the engine would break apart and leave the engine with out damaging it to bad. well i get out of my neighborhood and 1/4 of the way down the next road when the car starts dieing on me so i pull in a persons driveway and have to restart the car with aplying some gas, around 3k rpm. i drive ti straight back home and force my mother to drive me to work
now heres where i need the help.
1) i would like to know what you all would do, first and foremost
and then tell me if these steps are OKs
1)compression test it
2)pull the head and check the damage
3)clear the pistons and what ever else up
4)put new head gasket on and head(not sure if i need the new head gasket)
5)fire it up
so help me out guys.... thanks in advance
ickes