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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:08:55 -0500, "Daniel J. Stern"
> wrote: >On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, William. Boyd wrote: > >> I use Liquid wrench, WD is good but the LW is a tad better. > >Both of them are silly kid stuff. Kroil and Mopar 3418039 are the only two >penetrating fluids worth messing with. The nut part of the plug, if I read the OP's post correctly, is gone, leaving only the threaded bottom portion of the plug in the hole. With the nut gone, on a dead-cold engine block, there shouldn't be _much_ holding the threads in place except for corrosion. I guess the EZ-out idea is a good one but I would use that as a last resort, since you have to drill into the lower part of the plug and that is almost guaranteed to place particles of plug in the cylinder. I would try a screwdriver blade gently hammered into the porcelain, so as not to break it but create a slot for the screwdriver head, and try to work -that-. EZ out would be final solution, not first choice. And use compressed air to clean out everything before trying to unscrew base of plug. I don't think I would go to the trouble of pulling the head unless something like the porcelain bottom with the electrode fell into the cylinder. Of course, maybe OP's engine is -easy- to work on. In that case, sure pull the head. If it is bank 2 on my engine, it is very simple, but put a new head gasket on there for bank 2 before replacing head. Lg |
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