It's all you fault Greg! :D
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Just make sure your service guys screw it into the rocker cover so tight that when you try to remove it with a hex key it strips the inside of the hex bolt necessitating much drilling, swearing, grinding and wasted time.
And all this to inspect the tightness of my spark plugs .
Now I'm used to this sort of thing. I spent the better part of my late teens/early twenties lying in a puddle of oil under a car that predated me by 2 years (1966 Datsun Fairlady 1600 for the inquisitive). I've got the scars on my knuckles from trying to remove bolts that were over tightened and burred 20 years previously.
But I don't expect this sort of thing from a car that is only a year and a half old, and not when I'm doing something as basic as remove the spark plug cover. Took me about 3 hours just to get that bolt out.
Anyways, I've had my rant. My spark plugs were fine, thanks for asking .
Into this:
Just make sure your service guys screw it into the rocker cover so tight that when you try to remove it with a hex key it strips the inside of the hex bolt necessitating much drilling, swearing, grinding and wasted time.
And all this to inspect the tightness of my spark plugs .
Now I'm used to this sort of thing. I spent the better part of my late teens/early twenties lying in a puddle of oil under a car that predated me by 2 years (1966 Datsun Fairlady 1600 for the inquisitive). I've got the scars on my knuckles from trying to remove bolts that were over tightened and burred 20 years previously.
But I don't expect this sort of thing from a car that is only a year and a half old, and not when I'm doing something as basic as remove the spark plug cover. Took me about 3 hours just to get that bolt out.
Anyways, I've had my rant. My spark plugs were fine, thanks for asking .
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Originally posted by CoralDoc
Looks like a bit of corrosion there on the intact hex bolt.
Looks like a bit of corrosion there on the intact hex bolt.
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I was cursing Greg two minutes after starting this spark plug check. The cover bolts must have been torqued to about 100 ft-lbs, and I almost (but not quite) stripped one of them. What I thought was going to be a five minute job turned out to be nearly 3 hours when I include the time to go out and buy a spark plug wrench that was the right size! With all that effort involved, I was at least hoping for a slightly loose plug somewhere. Wrong! They were all nice and tight. What a disappointment.
Thanks Greg! I felt I jad wasted 2 hours of my Saturday morning when I could have been putting on an extra coat of Zaino!
Thanks Greg! I felt I jad wasted 2 hours of my Saturday morning when I could have been putting on an extra coat of Zaino!
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Hey, I'm just here to help...but you don't have to listen!!
But seriously, when I took my cover off last summer to do a dyno, mine came right off without any undue force...I was very surprised to see so many people having such difficulty with those little bastard screws.
As I said, I'm not how the plugs came loose (#1 was completely out and #2 was almost out), but I am quite sure that it had something to do with the failure. And a poll in Under the Hood shows that about 1/5th of the people who checked had one or more loose plugs...this CAN'T be a good thing! I don't know what part it played in what appeared to be some rather dramatic failure, but I think it was definitely a factor...
Glad yours were OK, Aus et al, who had trouble with those screws...it may have been a PITA, but hopefully it buys you some peace of mind.
Hey, I'm just here to help...but you don't have to listen!!
But seriously, when I took my cover off last summer to do a dyno, mine came right off without any undue force...I was very surprised to see so many people having such difficulty with those little bastard screws.
As I said, I'm not how the plugs came loose (#1 was completely out and #2 was almost out), but I am quite sure that it had something to do with the failure. And a poll in Under the Hood shows that about 1/5th of the people who checked had one or more loose plugs...this CAN'T be a good thing! I don't know what part it played in what appeared to be some rather dramatic failure, but I think it was definitely a factor...
Glad yours were OK, Aus et al, who had trouble with those screws...it may have been a PITA, but hopefully it buys you some peace of mind.
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Originally posted by AusS2000
I spent the better part of my late teens/early twenties lying in a puddle of oil under a car that predated me by 2 years (1966 Datsun Fairlady 1600 for the inquisitive).
I spent the better part of my late teens/early twenties lying in a puddle of oil under a car that predated me by 2 years (1966 Datsun Fairlady 1600 for the inquisitive).
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