Crispy Rice

Yesterday my engine was flooded (the office junior was moving it)... so i removed my plugs and went to replace them, however as there were none instock and i have to wait until tomorrow for them to arrive.

So I thought I would clean up the old ones and give them a go. Stupidly i gave them too much of a "nip" tight and the cermaic plug and sparky bit came away from the threaded bit and the tip.

This left the thread bit and the tip inside the head.

As you can imagine i was a wee bit worried.

So after some pottering about and and thinking the head would have to be taken off etc etc. I bought some "Easy Out" reverse threaded taps.

After some messing around i managed to get the remainder of the plug out, and fortunately it was intact!

The sick feeling is only just subsiding now!

MB

It's possibly the 3rd case of this I have heard in the last 2 weeks.

Not good!

veehexx

copper slip on the threads, and just a nip will do it.
this is also why they say dont re-use plugs.

easy-outs are a god-send though, as you've found out and well worth investing in a set should this happen.

a final thing you could do is run the engine for 5-10secs with the plug out - will blow out any possible ceramic thats got down there.

Crispy Rice

Cheers veehexx, i have run the engine to do just that. Sounds funny without any combustion

Bibbs

At least you didn't have them come loose ..

Glad it's okay fella!

Crispy Rice

It was thinking yours that caused me to over tighen them...

"Don't want what happened to Ben's to happen to mine..."

Bibbs

I will invest in a torque wrench one day ..

Crispy Rice

Does anyone know what should they be torqued too ?

RISLAR

13 lbf.ft fella

Ste_Nova

you mean you don't know

i've just replaced the bolts that hold the battery tray down and i had to go looking for a torque setting for them