General vehicle thread

[Gman]

Is it wrong that part of me wants you to ruin it just because it will probably make for an entertaining story?

[Irving]

I generally ruin enough stuff as it is. I'd prefer not to have to get a new vehicle during my slow season.

[Erni]

You got this. As long as you keep the alignment and take it easy it will be fine. Don't force the tap, and don't bend it. (Removing broken taps sucks, don't ask me how I know...)

[wyome]

Got my lil ones car running smoothly again, and new tires on it too. Just need to replace the brakes and itz good to go...

[Erni]

Popped the AC controll back in place on the Yaris. Bad design, has a tiny tab on both sides of the contol knob. Google brings up a bunch of issues with the Yaris AC control.

[ray1970]

I generally ruin enough stuff as it is. I'd prefer not to have to get a new vehicle during my slow season.

Technically if you screwed it up beyond repair you?d just have to replace the cylinder head, not the whole car. A used head would probably cost less than a new handgun. Obviously it came to that you would probably want to look pretty closely at the spark plug holes in the used head before you bought it.

[whitewalrus]

I didn't do it that often, so I just used a tube:


As I recall it had a copper color to it, but that was in the '90s.

They still make the copper type as well as the aluminum that you picture.

[Irving]

Timesert makes kits for doing these in place. That's what we use in the shop.

http://www.timesert.com/html/sparkplug.html

Man, these are a lot more than I thought. I suppose I could just sell the kit when I'm done.

[earplug]

Had a old MAZDA 4 cylinder B2000 that kept blowing plugs after replacement. I suspect the alloy that Ford uses for its heads loves to bond to sparkplugs.

[Gman]

I think Irving's Duratec was made by Mazda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Duratec_engine