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| Author: | drmini in aust [ Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Plug cleaning, when all else fails.. |
Pulled the plugs out of my employer's LS today to see why `it won't start'. They were all black as.. from people over-using the choke to get it in & out of the factory. So, I used DrMini emergency tip #1- Light oxy (or blowtorch), heat the biz end of plug gently until centre electrode insulator is nearly red. All the crud on it just vaporizes away.. 
Started 1st kick too....... 
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| Author: | gafmo [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:37 am ] |
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Wire wheel on the drill also works loverly also 
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| Author: | -=MiniMafia=- [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:39 am ] |
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yeah!! both ways work well. when i was at school I gave my mate a set of my plugs to clean on a wire wheel, and he melted all the tips off them. 
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| Author: | drmini in aust [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:42 am ] |
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Folklore has it that a wire wheel should never be used to clean plugs. It leaves steel wire particles embedded in the insulator which can cause the plug to fail.... |
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| Author: | h0nk [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:42 am ] |
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Wouldn't you stop at the first one after stuffing it up? Anyway very fine steel wool works aswell. |
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| Author: | gafmo [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:43 am ] |
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Nar they get imbedded in my head |
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| Author: | h0nk [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:47 am ] |
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dip it in petrol to clean all the steel shavings off after |
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| Author: | -=MiniMafia=- [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:13 am ] |
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u would think he would, he was in first year auto but
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| Author: | Rodney [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:57 am ] |
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I tip my hat to you yet again Doc. Hmmm.......all these tricks that you know - you should write a book and sell on AUSMINI and make some $$$$$'s it would be full of the stuff that just isn't in the workshop manuals etc. I'll have one..........please.........how much? Cheers |
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| Author: | Wolfman [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:17 am ] |
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Hell, just a corrected workshop manual would be great 
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| Author: | DJG-14U [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:56 am ] |
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Thanks for the tip will have to remember this  ...
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| Author: | scotty [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:56 pm ] |
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gafmo wrote: Nar they get imbedded in my head
You're supposed to use it on the plugs 
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| Author: | Dylans Clubby [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:22 pm ] |
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i normally just use a file, then a little file for the tip of the electrode and the curvey arm thingy that goes over the electrode, making the gap |
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| Author: | drmini in aust [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:35 pm ] |
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Dylan's Clubby wrote: i normally just use a file, then a little file for the tip of the electrode and the curvey arm thingy that goes over the electrode, making the gap
These 4 plugs' insulators were black as, covered in so much crap, oil and fuel that not one would fire..
After `the treatment' they looked new! Still gotta pull the head off it next week- compression is pretty low on one lung... the doctor has diagnosed a burnt valve...
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| Author: | 9YaTaH [ Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | File Card |
I cut up File Cards on a band saw into long (handled) plug cleaners. So what you end up with is a mini wire brush about 1.5cm wide and say 15cm long. To get down around the ceramic insulator I use a small Jewelers Screwdriver. |
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