Plugs and Wire change gone bad, 10 min. job turns into a 2 day plus job |
Plugs and Wire change gone bad, 10 min. job turns into a 2 day plus job |
Nov 11, 2009 - 4:47 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Feb 10, '09 From pa Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
I was trying to change my spark plugs and wires and ran into a bit of a problem. Usually this job should only take 10-15 mins. The first 2 plugs and wires changed out perfect, no problem at all. On the last 2 plugs, when i pulled out the wires, the little rubber boot stayed in the motor on the plug. I called everywhere to find out what i was suppost to do to get this bottom rubber piece of the wire out of my motor. Everywhere i called told me to go get a pair of long needle nose pliers, stick them down the hole where the plug goes and pull out the rubber peice and continue on with the job. Sounds easy enough so i went ahead and attempted to do what i was advised. All the pliers was doing was taking little chunks of the rubber apart at first, but not pulling it all the way out. Then the pliers got stuck in the hole with the plug and the little rubber piece. I tried to wiggle the pliers back and forth, yanking and pulling on them to get them out, and the handles broke off. So not only do i have a bad spark plug, a little rubber peice(bottom of sparkplug wire) stuck in the plug hole, but now there is also a half of a pair of brand new gearwrench needle noose pliers wedged in there. If you stick your finger in the hole you can feel the needle nose pliers, they are only about a finger nail length down. You can wiggle the pliers back and forth with you finger. So i got a pair of needle nose vise grips and tried to latch on to the broken pliers wedge in my motor. All the needle nose visegrips are doing is slipping off the broken pair. I can not get enough of a grip on them to pull them out.
So my questions are: Does anybody have any idea on how to get the broken pair of pliers out of my motor? What do i use to get the rubber (bottom of spark plug wire) out of my motor? If anybody has any suggestions please let me know. Any and all ideas are welcome. Thank you in advance for any feedback. -------------------- BABI BOI
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Nov 11, 2009 - 8:21 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Jan 17, '08 From JB MDL, NJ Currently Offline Reputation: 30 (100%) |
Wow, those must be some really cheap needle nose pliers for the handles to break off like that. If you can wiggle them back and forth Id say try a good magnet. Of course you can probably use anything shaped at an angle to help remove the pliers as well (a scribe...perhaps, maybe a cross tip offset screwdriver..) Got to get creative if the usual stuff doesnt work.
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