Help with stripped Spark plug thread

[RAMBOy]

Do you guys have any ideas on how to get a spark plug to go in a stripped hole? Bike I got needed new plugs and one of the old plugs came out with a spring looking coil wrapped around it and the new plug wouldnt go in that hole without the spring... So I put the spring on the new plug and put it back in but it wouldnt go in all the way..

Let me know what else I can try... The plug isnt firing because its not in all the way.
Thanks

[Nick Chapman]

Sounds like a helicoil

[perezsteveo]

Sounds like a helicoil

Yup!! Id say buy a new helicoil and start over.

[RAMBOy]

are yall saying that spring looking thing that was on the plug was a helicoil?
Where can i get one at? And is all I do put it on the tip of the plug and start screwing it back in?
Thanks guys

[Nick Chapman]

are yall saying that spring looking thing that was on the plug was a helicoil?
Where can i get one at? And is all I do put it on the tip of the plug and start screwing it back in?
Thanks guys



Thats what it sounds like. Don't crank it down too tight though when you put it back in.
You can get some helicoils from just about any auto parts store.

[blackjack]

Sounds like a helicoil
yup yup