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Muat - 16 Sep 2005 22:30 GMT

I have a dodge raider with a broken spark plug in the engine. Does anyone
have any suggestions on how to get it out??

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Coasty - 16 Sep 2005 23:25 GMT

>I have a dodge raider with a broken spark plug in the engine. Does anyone
> have any suggestions on how to get it out??

Hopefully just the porcelain end is broke and the nut head is still there
if so just us your spark plug socket with an extension to get some leverage.
If you totally twisted the nut head off leaving the threads you will need to
use an easyout tool to remove the rest of the plug.

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SnoMan - 19 Sep 2005 06:35 GMT

>>I have a dodge raider with a broken spark plug in the engine. Does
>anyone
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>need to
>use an easyout tool to remove the rest of the plug.

If the plug metal body is stuck in head, even a easyout may not work
because it takes a lot of force to break one off and it is likely
cross threaded too. If this is the case, your best bet is to remove
head and try to drill plug out (just under the size of the hole) and
collapse the old plug and remove it and check the threads. If you use
a easyout and break that off too, drilling will be a lot more
difficult to do.

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nospam.clare.nce@sny.der.on.ca - 19 Sep 2005 18:23 GMT

>>>I have a dodge raider with a broken spark plug in the engine. Does
>>anyone
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>a easyout and break that off too, drilling will be a lot more
>difficult to do.

If you break the EZout, the head has to come off. If it is already
off, there is no problem, as the EZ out can be very easily removed
from the "back side". Just a good jab with a punch, motivated by a
small hammer, and the job is done.

As for requiring a lot of torque to break off a plug shell - some take
VERY little after 3 years or more of hot and slop.

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SnoMan - 21 Sep 2005 04:35 GMT

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> On 19 Sep 2005 01:35:50 -0400, SnoMan
> <UseLinkToEmail@AutoForumz.com>
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> some take
> VERY little after 3 years or more of hot and slop.

I broke of a easy out in a broken head bolt once 30 years ago. I
managed to drill it out with a nitrate bit just under the bore size
and a very big drill motor and salvage the threads too. Easy outs do
not always work if the bolt wrung off to begin with because it was
seized up.

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Cricket - 21 Sep 2005 14:28 GMT

"SnoMan" <UseLinkToEmail@AutoForumz.com> wrote in message
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> I broke of a easy out in a broken head bolt once 30 years ago. I
> managed to drill it out with a nitrate bit just under the bore size
> and a very big drill motor and salvage the threads too. Easy outs do
> not always work if the bolt wrung off to begin with because it was
> seized up.

Did that in an old Chevy LUV once...language was heard by all...

Cricket

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BDK - 22 Sep 2005 00:31 GMT

> "SnoMan" <UseLinkToEmail@AutoForumz.com> wrote in message
> <snip>
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>
> Cricket

My neighbors heard my "song" when I tried to muscle a stuck plug out of
a friend's BB Chevy at 3am. It was in a Vega race car and when the plug
snapped and I slammed my knuckles into the frame tube, and I made all
kinds of funny noises. One of my neighbors suddenly pops up next to me
and scared the crap out of me just as I was beginning to be able to use
my hand again. He had a tendency to do that.

It wasn't the simple, "Hey, I'll change the plugs tonight so we don't
have to do it at the track!" deal I thought it would be. It took us
about 3 hours to get the rest of the plug out, and lost most of our
practice runs due to how late we were. We probably would have been
better off just swapping heads as we had a set in the boxes...but they
weren't assembled...what a fun Saturday it was.

I remember all the "fun" I had working on cars and trucks everyday, my
hands hurt all the time now.

BDK

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rix53 - 26 Sep 2005 00:04 GMT

I just went thru this on a GMC. Same problem exactly.
I just ran it till it got up to op temp & THEN shot
the plug with freon by shooting it down THROUGH the
plug socket. Had it out PDQ. I used anti-sieze on all
of em goin back in too.
Rick
P.S. And how in the world would a crackhead smoke thru
a plug anyway ? or did i miss sumthin. I have heard
tho, that they use old hollow radio antennas somehow.

>>I have a dodge raider with a broken spark plug in
>>the engine. Does anyone
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> threads you will need to use an easyout tool to
> remove the rest of the plug.

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EDTHEWARD - 26 Sep 2005 00:11 GMT

> P.S. And how in the world would a crackhead smoke thru a plug anyway ? or
> did i miss sumthin. I have heard tho, that they use old hollow radio
> antennas somehow.

didn't you read the story link?

then yes, you missed something.

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rix53 - 26 Sep 2005 02:50 GMT

Hey, thanks ed, that wuz kool, (i didn't scroll down
far enuff the first time i read the post),, I had no
idea the morons were up to such shenanigans. I know
they will do some crazy stuff when they smoke that
crap. Like robbing a Cab Driver AFTER he's told him to
take him home, (his home address),, geeze !!!
Thanx
Rick

>>I have a dodge raider with a broken spark plug in
>>the engine. Does anyone
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> threads you will need to use an easyout tool to
> remove the rest of the plug.

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EDTHEWARD - 17 Sep 2005 13:17 GMT

>I have a dodge raider with a broken spark plug in the engine. Does anyone
> have any suggestions on how to get it out??

get a crack addict to retrieve it. they use it to smoke crack.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/27499971.html

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nospam.clare.nce@sny.der.on.ca - 17 Sep 2005 17:23 GMT

>I have a dodge raider with a broken spark plug in the engine. Does anyone
>have any suggestions on how to get it out??

If you have snapped the "nut" off, blast it good with Liquid Nitrogen,
CO2, or Freon to chill it quickly and hopefully break the "rust"
holding it in. Then carefully remove with EZ out. Or heat the
remaining shell with a small tip on Oxy Acet torch to accomplish the
same thing. Be VERY carefull NOT to let ANY chips or abrasive
particles into the cyl.

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monk - 17 Sep 2005 19:44 GMT

>I have a dodge raider with a broken spark plug in the engine. Does anyone
> have any suggestions on how to get it out??

I just sent an Old dodge raider to the junkyard......with a broken plug in
it........did you happen to just get it?? out of jersey??

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