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12-25-2020, 04:35 PM | #1 |
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Spark plug socket
Can't seem to find a 15/16" spark pug socket for 3/3" drive. Any ideas?
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12-25-2020, 04:45 PM | #2 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
That was supposed to be 3/8" drive.
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12-25-2020, 05:00 PM | #3 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
I don’t recall... Is the spark plug a 13/16” instead of 15/16”?
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12-25-2020, 05:27 PM | #4 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
Maybe just use the spark plug wrench Ford provided, they do work.
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12-25-2020, 05:28 PM | #5 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
I use a 15/16" deep socket, ⅜" drive similar to these. https://www.ebay.com/itm/A-CRAFTSMAN...AAAOSwzsNcfqD3
Or use a ⅜" to ½" adapter on a ½" drive socket.
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12-25-2020, 06:04 PM | #7 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
I prefer a 15/16 ring spanner (or 24 mm). Less chance of it slipping sideways and cracking the insulation. Just be careful to not over tighten.
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12-25-2020, 06:17 PM | #8 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
Is a ring spanner the same as a box end wrench?
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12-25-2020, 08:51 PM | #9 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
I use an adjustable wrench on my 3X plugs. One time, it slipped off and hit the adjacent plug, cracking it. I still use the adjustable wrench, but am very careful. At that time, 3X’s were about $25 apiece.
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12-26-2020, 08:21 AM | #10 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
Box wrench just to crack loose and snug up. A little never-seize lets them spin right out and back in.
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12-26-2020, 09:34 AM | #11 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
The first time I heard the term "spanner" was in a NATO motor pool 50+ years ago. The bloke was holding one in his hand, so I caught on right away what he meant. I suspect "wrench" was just as alien to his ear. -- And a "box" has square corners.
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12-26-2020, 10:00 AM | #12 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
Don't some Model A spark plugs tank a different size wrench?
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12-26-2020, 10:40 AM | #13 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
yes they sell reducers so you can use modern plugs and some older plugs that are subtitutes foe 3x are a smaller size.
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12-26-2020, 12:05 PM | #14 |
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Yes but he specifically asked about a 15/16" socket, which fits the W-16Y and W-18 Champion. I believe the 3X uses a 1⅛" socket. I don't have one handy to measure.
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12-26-2020, 02:19 PM | #15 |
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NAPA, AutoZone , etc should have one. Use a 3/8;s extension.
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12-26-2020, 03:15 PM | #16 |
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After I got home, I found I’m using g a Tekton 15/16” spark plug socket. It looks like Home Depot carries them.
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12-26-2020, 04:27 PM | #17 |
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Yes, that is a ring spanner. In English, a wrench is defined as a sudden violent twist or pull. It can be used in a sentence this way: "with a wrench Tony wriggled free"
So, a wrench is the action applied to a spanner, not the spanner itself. It seems to me that this is just one more example of how you guys "developed" your own language when Webster dumbed down the language.
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When I look it up, this is what I find:
Wench. A 13th-century word meaning a female infant or a young unmarried woman quickly acquired negative connotations: from the late 14th century, in Langland and Chaucer it is used to mean “a wanton woman; a mistress”.
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Haha, Good one Carl.
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That is probably a reasonable description of our Model As but not what I meant. Obviously, I made a typo by missing the "r". Oooops!
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