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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:40 pm 
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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.. :P
Started 1st kick too....... 8)

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Wire wheel on the drill also works loverly also :wink:

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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. :shock:

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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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Wouldn't you stop at the first one after stuffing it up?

Anyway very fine steel wool works aswell.
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Nar they get imbedded in my head

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dip it in petrol to clean all the steel shavings off after
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u would think he would, he was in first year auto but :wink:

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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?

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Hell, just a corrected workshop manual would be great :lol:
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Thanks for the tip will have to remember this :)...

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gafmo wrote:
Nar they get imbedded in my head


You're supposed to use it on the plugs :roll: :lol:

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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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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.. :shock:
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... :lol:

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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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