missing spark plug tool

[jsmith]

I need to change the plug, but I don't have to special spark plug tool. I tried a regular spark plug socket, but it is too thick to get to the plug. What do I do now? How do you get the plug out without the special tool?

[blaine]

Welcome.Use a 18mm deep socket.A standard 13/16 plug socket is to big for the plug and a 5/8 is to small.
:cool:

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by jsmith

How do you get the plug out without the special tool?

Visit your dealer and GET the special tool.......
or visit Sears and get a thin-walled spark plug socket.

Don't make things harder than they ARE !! :cool:

[alantf]

.............. or buy an 18mm box spanner. (box wrench?) After all, that's all the "special" tool is :2tup:

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by alantf

.............. or buy an 18mm box spanner. (box wrench?) After all, that's all the "special" tool is :2tup:

Really ??
That's fine if the plug is sticking out where you can get at it.
I though it was "burried" down inside the cooling fins where it is obvious that a plain wrench won't work.
Has my memory failed me again ?? :roll:

[blaine]

Originally Posted by Easy Rider

Really ??
That's fine if the plug is sticking out where you can get at it.
I though it was "burried" down inside the cooling fins where it is obvious that a plain wrench won't work.
Has my memory failed me again ?? :roll:

I think they use the box wrench to turn the plug socket instead of a ratchet.If that is not the case,than I am at a loss also.
O_o :??:

[alantf]

O.k., lets see if the English/American terminology is the same........ A box spanner (box wrench?) is just a metal tube, with the end ¾" or so hammered into a hexagon. The other end has a hole (¼" diameter, or so) drilled in it, to take a bar (screwdriver shaft?) with which to turn it. Honestly, that's all the "special tool" is. If that hasn't clarified it, here's a photo of the one in my Suzuki toolkit.[attachment=0:2e3u7j0w]Picture 005.jpg[/attachment:2e3u7j0w]

[dentheman]

Terminology. In the USA we call that thing in the photo a 'socket', or a 'spark plug tool'. When you say spanner, I think of a bar with jaws on one or both ends to fit nuts and bolts. A 'spanner' with open jaws is an open end wrench, one with enclosed jaws is a box end wrench.

[dentheman]

If a regular socket is too thick walled to work, that cheap pressed steel spark plug tool in the above photo shouldn't be hard to find at discount or auto parts stores. I think they come in 2 or 3 sizes, so get the right one.

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by alantf

O.k., lets see if the English/American terminology is the same........ A box spanner (box wrench?) is just a metal tube, with the end ¾" or so hammered into a hexagon.

Guess not then. What we refer to as a box wrench, in it's most basic form, is just a flat piece of steel with a notch cut in one end (or both) that apporximates the size of the nut to be operated upon. I think most "standard" MC tool kits have two of them, with 4 sizes covered.