Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 04:10 pm, by: Peter Ha(Soaranova)
hey everyone,
i've killed one of the treads of the screw for the spark plug cover. using the damn hexagonal tool i tried to rush taking off the screws so i can change the sparks to the iridium sparkies. and now one of the screw treads is not blunt and i cant use the hexagonal tool for it.
would any one have any ideas on what i could do to take out the blunt screw so i can replace the sparkies with my iridiums?
Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 04:15 pm, by: Graham Dollisson(Alloyvee)
So you are saying that you didn't put the hex key in far enough and turned it, which has now stuffed the opening in the screw so you can't get the hex key all the way in now!! Is that it?
Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 05:05 pm, by: Graham Dollisson(Alloyvee)
A thing called an easyout, used for removing screws and threads may be the go. Hardware store should have them. You could try a screw driver. carefully tap it into the "big nice ruffed out circle" and see if it will turn it.
Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 07:57 pm, by: Brian Laws(Asian_warrior01)
i have don that before what you need is (can not remember name) but this is how it works you put the bit into your drill and wack the drill in reverse. place it into the broken off part and pull the trigger, make sure in reverse and do it slowly so it bits onto the metal and it will then allow you to remove the broken of bit. if you go with the screw driver way be very care full cause you can damage the thread.
Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 08:18 pm, by: Graham Dollisson(Alloyvee)
Brian, it's called an easyout screw extractor!! Just do a search on ebay to find what they look like. By the way, that's a wicked looking paint job on your car.
Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 08:36 am, by: Sidd Venkatesan(Siddvenkatesan)
I had the same thing happen when Toan and I tried to change the spark plugs for the same time. Toans dad (here after known as God of cheap efficient mechanical fixes) told us to first relax. Second, using a flat head screwdriver and hammer, lightly tap out a new notch in the top of the screw head. After a new notch has been tapped in, we sprayed in a bit of WD40, and after a few minutes of soaking, we were able to just screw out the screw. Hope that helps.
Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 11:16 am, by: Toan Nguyen(Soarer_gt)
hAHahAH... yeah that was awesome...
We were both certified engineers and fvcked up that nut... Spent like 2-3 hours thinking of idea's until my dad comes out and goes "Oh... let me have a go" and takes it off in 10 minutes. We were going "WTF??"
I dont have that top cover on anymore. It's sitting in a pile of soarer parts in the garage.
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