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MConverse
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Spring loaded spark plug socket

Post by MConverse » Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:46 pm

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

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Re: Spring loaded spark plug socket

Post by Amskeptic » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:45 am

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!
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Re: Spring loaded spark plug socket

Post by satchmo » Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:24 pm

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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Re: Spring loaded spark plug socket

Post by Amskeptic » Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:36 pm

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. . .
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Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
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Post by glasseye » Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:11 am

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?
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Post by vwlover77 » Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:41 am

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.
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Post by Sluggo » Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:22 pm

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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Post by LiveonJG » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:08 pm

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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