Spark plugs at 139k miles.. bad news
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From: Bett-neee
RE: Spark plugs at 139k miles.. bad news
dads POS explorer had orignal plugs after 125K and lucky me got to change them.. insulator broke off with the nut in the plug socket.. ended up using an EZout on an impact and she broke free and came right out!
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RE: Spark plugs at 139k miles.. bad news
i have a little magnet tool that's attached to the end of a metal stick, which bends/rotates in several different directions. its pretty small, and would probably fit down inside the plug hole. look for something like that at the parts store. if you can't find one i'd be very very very very careful about taping a magnet to something. the magnet is likely to grab ahold of the cylinder wall or something and not let go and you'll pull the tape right off it. then you'll have plier tips and a magnet inside the motor.
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RE: Spark plugs at 139k miles.. bad news
Quit messing around with pliers and such and go get an ez-out. Get the plug out - then get a small magnet pickup tool in there to get the metal debris out. If you really want to make sure you get all the stuff out - do the vacuum cleaner thing too.......
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RE: Spark plugs at 139k miles.. bad news
sounds like you are in the sam situation as i am. i went to change my plugs and discoverd whoever changed them last stipped one clean off. the part that sucks is the shield thing around it blocks all my attemps. can that thing be removed easily? then i can just get one of them removal tools and some pentrating lube
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RE: Spark plugs at 139k miles.. bad news
ORIGINAL: BLKbeast
sounds like you are in the sam situation as i am. i went to change my plugs and discoverd whoever changed them last stipped one clean off. the part that sucks is the shield thing around it blocks all my attemps. can that thing be removed easily? then i can just get one of them removal tools and some pentrating lube
sounds like you are in the sam situation as i am. i went to change my plugs and discoverd whoever changed them last stipped one clean off. the part that sucks is the shield thing around it blocks all my attemps. can that thing be removed easily? then i can just get one of them removal tools and some pentrating lube
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RE: Spark plugs at 139k miles.. bad news
ORIGINAL: VWandDodge
When you install new plugs, I recommend using Anti-Sieze on the plug threads.
When you install new plugs, I recommend using Anti-Sieze on the plug threads.
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From: Central Oklahoma
RE: Spark plugs at 139k miles.. bad news
ORIGINAL: jimmydaleo
and do not buy the little $ .99 packets, for 7 dollars you will get one that will last a lifetime with a brush intergated in the cap.
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When you install new plugs, I recommend using Anti-Sieze on the plug threads.
When you install new plugs, I recommend using Anti-Sieze on the plug threads.
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RE: Spark plugs at 139k miles.. bad news
lololol help the guy who was working on it fell in the little hole too
Seriously thou, we used to run quad-platinums to ensure always-fire because we ran some high rpm's and also high torque applications, more than a few times the engine would break off the electrode off the plug itself... Diesels do this, too, piece of the plug gone while it's running... You'd think it does something to the engine but by the time we'd notice it was already gone, guess the intense chamber heat just vaporizes these parts, idk.
If you can not get the pieces out, the plug bit itself is nothing but the other part, I'd ask for a second opinion before you do this, but I'd start it and revv it super high and sustain around 5k rpm's and pray like hell lol, but that's just me and I'm crazy so.
Seriously thou, we used to run quad-platinums to ensure always-fire because we ran some high rpm's and also high torque applications, more than a few times the engine would break off the electrode off the plug itself... Diesels do this, too, piece of the plug gone while it's running... You'd think it does something to the engine but by the time we'd notice it was already gone, guess the intense chamber heat just vaporizes these parts, idk.
If you can not get the pieces out, the plug bit itself is nothing but the other part, I'd ask for a second opinion before you do this, but I'd start it and revv it super high and sustain around 5k rpm's and pray like hell lol, but that's just me and I'm crazy so.
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RE: Spark plugs at 139k miles.. bad news
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lololol help the guy who was working on it fell in the little hole too
Seriously thou, we used to run quad-platinums to ensure always-fire because we ran some high rpm's and also high torque applications, more than a few times the engine would break off the electrode off the plug itself... Diesels do this, too, piece of the plug gone while it's running... You'd think it does something to the engine but by the time we'd notice it was already gone, guess the intense chamber heat just vaporizes these parts, idk.
If you can not get the pieces out, the plug bit itself is nothing but the other part, I'd ask for a second opinion before you do this, but I'd start it and revv it super high and sustain around 5k rpm's and pray like hell lol, but that's just me and I'm crazy so.
lololol help the guy who was working on it fell in the little hole too
Seriously thou, we used to run quad-platinums to ensure always-fire because we ran some high rpm's and also high torque applications, more than a few times the engine would break off the electrode off the plug itself... Diesels do this, too, piece of the plug gone while it's running... You'd think it does something to the engine but by the time we'd notice it was already gone, guess the intense chamber heat just vaporizes these parts, idk.
If you can not get the pieces out, the plug bit itself is nothing but the other part, I'd ask for a second opinion before you do this, but I'd start it and revv it super high and sustain around 5k rpm's and pray like hell lol, but that's just me and I'm crazy so.