Spring loaded spark plug socket
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Spring loaded spark plug socket
Colin, can you *please* post a picture of your spark plug socket and any info you may have on it?
I seriously desire one and cannot get it off my mind. I have spent the better part of today scouring the web for one!
Mike
I seriously desire one and cannot get it off my mind. I have spent the better part of today scouring the web for one!
Mike
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Re: Spring loaded spark plug socket
Sure, when I get my camera/battery charger back from Sluggo before i drive to Somona County!MConverse wrote:Colin, can you *please* post a picture of your spark plug socket and any info you may have on it?
I seriously desire one and cannot get it off my mind. I have spent the better part of today scouring the web for one!
Mike
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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Re: Spring loaded spark plug socket
I had a pretty good jones for Colin's spark plug socket after I saw it, too. The thing I liked about it was that it had that universal joint, swivel every which way attitude, plus it stuck up far enough above the spark plug that you didn't lose it under the tin. I looked around for something like it, but no go. So I decided to make my own.MConverse wrote:Colin, can you *please* post a picture of your spark plug socket and any info you may have on it?
I seriously desire one and cannot get it off my mind. I have spent the better part of today scouring the web for one!
Mike
It is just a regular spark plug socket with a swivel joint on top, but I epoxy glued the swivel joint on. That way it always stays connected to the socket, but I can use any size of extension on it that I want. It sticks up out of the tin enough that I can fetch it outta there easily. It works slick. But when Colin is here, he had better keep an eye on his socket, or it might just disappear. "Spark plug socket? No, I never saw your socket. Maybe you left it in California or something."
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second, by immitation, which is easiest;
and third, by experience, which is bitterest. -Confucius
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Re: Spring loaded spark plug socket
Me? I don't have a "sparkplug socket."satchmo wrote:
But when Colin is here, he had better keep an eye on his socket, or it might just disappear. "Spark plug socket? No, I never saw your socket. Maybe you left it in California or something."
I, um, never take out spark plugs. . .
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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Most have a little rubber thingy in the socket (no reference to Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" intended) to grip the body of the sparkplug.
Don
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78 Westy
71 Super Beetle Convertible Autostick
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78 Westy
71 Super Beetle Convertible Autostick
"When we let our compassion go, we let go of whatever claim we have to the divine." - Bruce Springsteen
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Mine has a magnet. The one I had with the rubber ring kept losing the ring. I have the swivel adapter and I'll try that epoxy idea. It pops out all the time.
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Craftsman makes an extension that locks into the socket. Before that I would periodically drop both plug and socket into the tin, and always on #2. That's the toughest plug to get to with FI. Since getting the extension, I have stepped one step closer to Nirvana (the state of mental being, not the band).
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