Re: Spark Plug ? (not what you think) :-)

From: jon@dakota-truck.net
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 00:10:34 EST


andy levy <andylevy@yahoo.com> wrote:

: jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:

:> I've got the top end of the motor torn apart, the heads
:> dissasembled, etc. Took a mess of water and mud out of the
:> intake and cylinder bores.

: And it's salvageable?

  
   I think so. I was able to clean it up pretty good. I'll be blasting
and painting the heads and intake, going to have to clean up the valves
too. I am pretty confident about the top end; as long as the bottom
end is OK I think it'll be fine.

:>I was able to get the broken spark
:> plug out of the head without too much trouble (a couple of heat up
:> and cool down cycles, lots of liquid wrench, a few drill bits, and
:> an easy out).

: You consider this "without too much trouble"? What constitutes
: difficult for you Jon, taking Omaha Beach armed with nothing more than a
: spork? :)

  Heheheh!

   You whippersnappers with your fancy smart weapons! They only issued
us plastic spoons! ;-)

   Difficult would have been having the extractor lodge in the head or
having no way to extract the plug without drilling it out and putting
an insert or helicoil in there. (Well, maybe not difficult per se, but
it would have been a lot more hassle than I feel like dealing with
right now.) :-)

-- 

-Jon-

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