Need a shop recommendation in the Sacramento area for a Toyota

[ntheogen]

My 19 year old nephew just moved to the Elk Grove California area to climb cell towers.  He called me yesterday and a spark plug came out of his 4.7L Toyota Sequoia, I need to send him to a trustworthy and competent shop that can asses the situation for him.  Anyone got any suggestions?  Many thanks in advance

Jack
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[Rory428]

Do you know if the spark plug came out from damaged threads, or possibly just unthreaded itself? I recently retired after the past 23 years at a Toyota dealership, and can not recall ever having a spark plug come out from damaged threads, but did have a few where the plugs had been replaced, but must not have been tightened enough. In each case, I was able to just either put the same plug back in, or if it looked questionable, install a new plug. Unlike my Ford V10, most later Toyotas have long threads for the plugs, close to an inch long, so chances are they threads are fine. I would just try to put it back in, snugly, and if it damaged the coil, install a new coil.

[ntheogen]

He's not super mechanically inclined, I was trying to figure out what was going on through a facetime call which was less that ideal.  I had him try and run a spark plug tap in the threads and he was not able to do so and I was just getting frustrated.  I think I found a decent shop in Sac to take a look and asses the situation.  Thank you for your input and sharing your experience Rory, I will let you know how it unfolds. Happy Holidays to you and yours.

Jack