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How to remove a stuck spark plug

Nice to hear! Like it when OP er replies on how things were solved.
 
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I'm a firm believer in never seize, bought a 48 Dodge sedan parts car that looked like it had been sitting in a swamp. I needed some differential parts for my 48 Desoto 2dr sedan I was bring back from the dead and looked at those lug nut bolts and though there was no way they are going to come loose without at least a few of them snapping off or having to resort to liquifing the offending unit. But put my 1/2" drive 6 point socket on the first one with a 2 foot breaker bar and gave 'er a tug....darn thing spun out like it was just installed yesterday. Turned out a previous owner had put never seize on ever single lug nut bolt!!

So been using never seize on pretty much anything and everything since then.
I put anti seize on pretty much everything as well, except for wheel studs. I have always heard that they should never be coated with anything. Maybe that is an old wives tale, but I have always left them dry.
 
You guys ever used Deep Creep made by SeaFoam. Best stuff I ever used. When taking the rear out of my 65 Coronet that had never been apart I sprayed it a couple of times and let it set for a few days and it came apart like it was put together yesterday.
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As far as anti seize goes I put it on everything. When doing brake jobs I use it on the self adjuster and it will work forever with out rusting up. First thing I do with a new vehicle is take tires and wheels off and put it on the wheel studs so they go off and on super easy forever.
 
I once worked at a gas station where we had a guy changing spark plugs on a car use an impact and broke off almost every one of them. Asked him way he kept going after breaking the first one and he just shrugged.... got fired that day and we spent the next several days pulling the heads to get the broken plugs out... dumbass...
 
You guys ever used Deep Creep made by SeaFoam. Best stuff I ever used. When taking the rear out of my 65 Coronet that had never been apart I sprayed it a couple of times and let it set for a few days and it came apart like it was put together yesterday. View attachment 961613
As far as anti seize goes I put it on everything. When doing brake jobs I use it on the self adjuster and it will work forever with out rusting up. First thing I do with a new vehicle is take tires and wheels off and put it on the wheel studs so they go off and on super easy forever.
I've been socking the plugs with deep creep. Haven't try pulling them yet
 
I've been socking the plugs with deep creep. Haven't try pulling them yet
 
I put anti seize on pretty much everything as well, except for wheel studs. I have always heard that they should never be coated with anything. Maybe that is an old wives tale, but I have always left them dry.
Me too...even when I was in the trade we were warned by the manufacturer against using copper grease type anti seize on wheel lugs. Firstly it can make them work lose and more importantly you wont be able to torque then up correctly as the quoted lug bolt or nut toque is always for DRY threads. You will tend to over torque with anything on the threads.
Back on topic I find that a little heat from a torch (as low as possible on the plug) followed buy some sort of fast cooling with a aerosol oil (WD40 or whatever) will usually break the bond between head and plug.
 
I have an impact with a knob on the bottom of the handle for the power control. If I turn the knob all the way in and squeeze the trigger, nothing happens. I start out like that, with a spark plug socket, and get on a plug.
Squeeze the trigger, and then very slowly start turning the knob, till the impact starts to chug a little. Leave it like that for a bit, then slowly turn a little more, if necessary. It may take a few minutes, but I have always had it work to get the plug out. It just takes patience.
 
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