stuck glow plug....Help!
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stuck glow plug....Help!
Hey all. Tore into replacing my GP's today, all went well until I had one come apart. The probe is stuck while the threaded sleeve and top cap came out. Dug through the archives and found some pretty good stuff, just thought I'd rack your brains for a fresh look. Baz says you can turn it over and hope it shoots out, sounds like a broken window at my neighbors house to me. Has anyone done this? thought maybe i could put it back together and just run it on 7 new GP's, but it seems like now that the plug has come apart, I could risk pieces everywhere. Thanks you guys, I have learned so much from this site just reading posts, I rarely need to post myself. FTE rules!
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Originally Posted by zakquick
Hey all. Tore into replacing my GP's today, all went well until I had one come apart. The probe is stuck while the threaded sleeve and top cap came out. Dug through the archives and found some pretty good stuff, just thought I'd rack your brains for a fresh look. Baz says you can turn it over and hope it shoots out, sounds like a broken window at my neighbors house to me. Has anyone done this? thought maybe i could put it back together and just run it on 7 new GP's, but it seems like now that the plug has come apart, I could risk pieces everywhere. Thanks you guys, I have learned so much from this site just reading posts, I rarely need to post myself. FTE rules!
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Take a pair of needle nose wise grips and make a slide hammer with it. You will need to pull out the threaded part that adjusts the vise grips and get a piece of all thread the same size. Then cut it to the length you need (if there is something in the way it will have to be shorter), get a nice heavy deepwell socket and put it on the shaft and put a nut and washer at the top. Now you can grip the top of the gp and hammer it out.
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same thing happened to me last year when i did mine. You can use vice grips and try to work it out or you can try using the engines compression to push it out. IF you do this make sure you wrap something arouond it so it doesnt fall in teh cylinder. Mine wouldnt bust loss (mushroomed) and had to have the head pulled.
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Originally Posted by zakquick
What do you think about leaving it in for awhile
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Hey all, update on my situation.... I put her back together with the old stuck GP still stuck. Opened her up again this morning and the probe came right out with the sleeve, no problem. Threaded the last new GP in there, and closed it up. I started it up and I now have a chugging I never had. Very under powered. I did remove the rocker arm to give me some room to wrench. already checked everything else, its all there, no missing parts. What did I do?
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