What have you done on your bike today?
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Agreed, but then Hugo needs to invest in
- a wheel chock, unless it comes with the ramp,
- a fork stand for times when the front wheel has to come out
- an Abba superbike stand for times when the rear wheel has to come out,
- or an axle stand if it’s an SSSA
A Skylift does it all.
Feck it Hugo, spend some of the humongous grant the Govt gives farmers and buy both a ramp and a Skylift.
Via adapters that plug into the swing arm mounting points.
If it's only to remove wheels the cheapest option is an Abba stand with the front wheel lift attachment.
Maybe, in the past, someone removed a plug to change it, didn’t notice the crush washer didn’t come out with it, installed a new plug complete with its crush washer and the 2 crush washers didn’t seal properly, allowing a slight blow back past the plug which may explain why it’s so sooty.
I’m not sure how you’re going to remove that short of grinding it out
I have not and will not take government grants, Single Farm Payments, or anything else which comes with strings attached. I already get more than enough government interference.
The Sky Lift does look tempting. I'll need to see how it fits onto the Multi. Yes a table lift would be nice but I don't have the headroom to get the best out of it.
Yes I did wonder if they had just used the old washer.Maybe, in the past, someone removed a plug to change it, didn’t notice the crush washer didn’t come out with it, installed a new plug complete with its crush washer and the 2 crush washers didn’t seal properly, allowing a slight blow back past the plug which may explain why it’s so sooty.
I’m not sure how you’re going to remove that short of grinding it out
However I try to remove the washer I will have to make sure I don't damage the seating.
Do you have a bearing puller kit, not sure it would be able to grip the washer but all other methods I can think of involve head removal
Safest and cleanest way, is head removal, Hugo has a spare engine from Bumpkins? old bike, do a head swap cocker. Then you're in a position to have a good go at the current head in a workable enviroment.Do you have a bearing puller kit, not sure it would be able to grip the washer but all other methods I can think of involve head removal
^I shall try other methods first I haven't run out of ideas yet.
You have a gun, right?
It'll go just fine. Threaten to blow it away, it'll fall over itself to comply (NB don't let it fall over).
^What a great idea! shot blast it.
yes the 7.62 military round will go through stanchions.
I disagree.
Literally everything was better after you did that.
Immensely.Very satifying though
When I realised the treatment had proved ineffective and a new laptop was the only solution, I told the little pasty-faced man with spectacles in the puter shop that my old laptop was "broken". That's OK, he said, we can still get your data off the hard drive and transfer it to your new computer. I brought the wreckage in and left them to it. When I went back, the little man said, what the hell happened to this!? I shuffled my feet and said I'd dropped it. Quite hard..
He said, I'm sorry we couldn't recover your data.
It turns out that if you send a 150 grain 7.62 mm partition bullet through the middle of a hard drive disc at 2900 fps from twenty yards, data recovery is problematic.
Amazing the information we have on this little forum
Now I know why youi don't have a TV.
Spark plug washers are really crushable gaskets so are normally made of a soft, malleable metal.
If you're sure there's a gasket in there, might be worth finding something to block the threaded plug hole to prevent anything falling into the combustion chamber and have a go with something like a good quality dental hook. If there is room to get the tool down the spark plug hole and the hook between the gasket and head and give it a pull, the gasket may come away quite easily and then work round the circumference lifting the gasket until it can be removed.
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Have you tried beating the motorcycle into submission with a hammer ? i hear it works a dream on fuel injected motorcycles
That was my first mode of attack, then I tried a rod with a ground end and a small washer welded to act as a fulcrum working from the inside edge of the "gasket"then I welded the spark plug thread to a rod and tried to tickle it out with the thread, I still have other ideas.
But please keep the coming.
Many years back I once was working as a plasterers mate. The plasterer (Dave, not real name) was just finishing off polishing a ceiling when he got a lump of finish in his eye, stopping work immediately he asked me to help get the plaster out of his eye.
I led him outside and began to wash his eye with running water from a hose pipe.
Seeing plaster in an and around the eyeball I began to fish it out, only to realise the plaster had set and I was indeed removing the lining of the eyelid. He spent the next two nights in hospital.
Don’t know what this has to do with your spark plug issue… oh yes that’s it, are you sure you are looking at the plug washer?
Could the plug have been installed originally without one?
^ that had occurred to me too. I'm fairly certain that it is still there. but I will take a phot of the V plug hole and compare notes. It is quite a fiddle trying to hod the torch and phone camera and line it all up.
They are normally captivated on new plugs, more so when crushed after the first torque up - are you sure there is one in there at all?
Can you measure a depth from both heads with a Vernier as they will still be a mm thickness.
Ah, you both got there as I was typing - you could also measure it to the top of the piston at TDC on both heads...
And would it really matter if you put a new one in anyway if there is one crushed in there
Good shout, yes we can do that. I might end up taking the mud guard, front forks and wheel off to facilitate more easy access.