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Spring loaded spark plug socket
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:46 pm
by MConverse
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
Re: Spring loaded spark plug socket
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:45 am
by Amskeptic
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
Sure, when I get my camera/battery charger back from Sluggo before i drive to Somona County!
Colin
Re: Spring loaded spark plug socket
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:24 pm
by satchmo
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
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.
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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Good Luck, Tim
Re: Spring loaded spark plug socket
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:36 pm
by Amskeptic
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."
Me? I don't have a "sparkplug socket."
I, um, never take out spark plugs. . .
Colin
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:11 am
by glasseye
MY sparkplug socket allowed me to drop not one, but TWO of the plugs back into the tin-hole. I got 'em out with one of those grabber things, but there must be a better way. Do your sockets capture the plug as it's unthreaded?
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:41 am
by vwlover77
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.
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:22 pm
by Sluggo
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.
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:08 pm
by LiveonJG
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).
-John