Jbrew

That sucks, can you get some heat down there, like say MAPP gas ?

Other than that you'll have to go with a plug thread fix kit, Time Sert, Calvan, Lisle etc..They come with everything in the kit.

Phil03

What about soaking in acetone or MEK? If it is JB Weld, it might get gummy to where you can scrape it out, or at least loosen the plug.

escodsm

I'm at the breaking point, where I now know the truck won't be back on the road tomorrow when I need it. So what did I do?

I took a break and figured I'd do the crossover gaskets, but wouldn't you know - 5 out of 6 bolts loosened right up, but the 6th one won't budge. Now the head of it is destroyed.

I've destroyed two 10mm sockets on the EO - the square end just shredded the sockets. They were a tight fit too. Sorry 3/8 sockets not 10mm kinda the same but different.

danfan

Man, you have gone thru hell on that thing. Maybe it's time to bite the bullet, and install new heads. Looks, to me like the PO had a thing for epoxy, rather than doing it right.

mbb

whats EO?

musta used 12pt sockets and not 6?

When I have a stuck bolt...always go to 6 pt, even if it means buying one I dont have at autozone

Jbrew

I just use heat, without heat I'd be busting everything on my old truck. Heat and a little battery impact...best friends!

escodsm

Hi there, yes 12 pt keep in mind I am using the sockets reversed
This is my whole issue preventing me from getting this plug thread-basket out.

So I am using this


and I used a 3/8" socket extension, backwards.
I hammered in a piece of sheet metal (a picture frame hanger like this:




... around the extractor once it was inside the square 3/8" end of the socket extension.

For the business end, I used a shop press to squeeze on a 12mm 6 point socket, hex side, into a 3/8" ratchet end:



I put two dots on one face of the square end of the extractor, and turned it into a piece of pine. One full revolution brings the extractor all the way in, buried to the hilt. I was maybe getting, 1/4 turn before I felt slippage, or less. The snapping would happen and I thought it was the extractor slipping, but in reality it was the 12mm socket rounding off with the ratchet inside it. To prove this I pulled them apart (a surprisingly tight fit) and sure enough the insides of the 12mm socket, along with the edges of the ratchet end, were super shiny and shaved. I locked the two together again, and put the socket end in a vise. I had it tight but the socket would still turn...so I clamped down hard on the vise and YEP! Slippage.

Working on these trucks, we are all crazy, some more than others but it's all by choice. I embrace the chaos, after all, it could always be worse!

PS thanks to wifey for the picture hanging thingy

escodsm

This tool would be perfect for me. Guess I'm a dinosaur, stupid, or really inexperienced.

mbb

Or a tap socket.......






So, is the ez out being used on the plug, or the bolt above?

Im lost

white89gt

Plug.... all of the porcelain, electrode.... and the rest came out, but the threads are still in there.