The fact that you found a time-sert in your engine tells me you have a
problem & it's not the time-sert because time-serts are designed to lock in
place once installed. I would be willing to bet that a fair percentage of
list members have one or more time-serts or heli-coils in their engines. I
know I've installed enough heli-coils over the years.

BTW, a lot of people will accuse the mechanic who installs a time-sert or
heli-coil of damaging their engines when more often than not, it's the
previous mechanic who over torqued the spark plug or fastener. The one who
has to do the thread repair is usually suffering the consequences when he
drags the damaged threads out with the fastener.

Tom
www.stir-plate.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Mark Dearing
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 4:24 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Found a timesert in the spark plug hole

In a message dated 5/3/2010 5:20:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
syncronicity1@GMAIL.COM writes:

Only  other alternative I thought of is to use one of the old spark plugs
and torque it to a higher value to maybe get a better seat on the  insert.

hello Chances aRE THE OLD INSERT WILL STILL COME BACK OUT WITH THE PLUG NO
MATTER WHAT YOU DO,  i WOULD USE THE NEW INSERT AND NEW PLUG AND HOPE FOR
THE BEST  LATER  MARK D