Spark Plug "disguise"

[BarracudaBoy]

Came across this and found it interesting. The brass nuts are easy enough to find at Lowe's or Home Depot, but looking around in the plumbing section, I couldn't find anything to easily make the sleeve from.

Anyone ever done this?

8-32 Brass Knurled nuts and a 4mm-0.70 tap to get the nuts to fit a Autolite or Motorcraft Sparkplug.

[Tiny]

My car ran sooo much better when I put Champions in that I don't think I would waste the time or money on Motocraft plugs. Cool idea though.

[Bob C]

how about welding hose ferrules? http://www.globalindustrial.com/g/to...-Hose-Ferrules

Bob

[Special Coupe Frank]

I used this thumb-nut trick on my Motorcrafts...

[BarracudaBoy]

I was hoping maybe to find something cheap, thin walled that I could grind 2 tabs into to bend under the sparkplug strip. I wonder waht the fellow used in the picture. I was looking at his website, but didn't see anyway to contact him to ask. Maybe he is a fordbarner. here's the link to the site maybe someone knows him.
http://www.caroholic.com/29_ford.htm

[Kirby1374]

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did you look at a real hardware store/lighting in the lamp section. like the nut to hold on shades? My mind is seeing what you need but don't know what to call it.

[BarracudaBoy]

That's a good idea Kirby1374. Next time I'm at Lowe's I'll take a look.

[Kirby1374]

something like the tube on this page. I just did a quick google of lamp parts. The problem is I would find the right part but yet buying the nuts and the tubes and the price of the "cheap" spark plug I could of just bought the expensive thing that I would be trying to duplicate.

[BarracudaBoy]

Yeah, that's why I was saying "cheap". But at 20 bucks a plug, I think there is some room. Partly, I just like little projects like this, making a "gadget", so to speak.

http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/de...9994&ppt=C0327

[Tiny]

I found mine at a swap meet. $20 got me 4 plugs in some really ratty boxes, but the plugs were new