Thanks for the video. I tried to blow out the debris out and had no luck and forgot all about using my grabber and was able to get out all debris and also used the tape also and seeing it was on my 5.7L Hemi in the rear it took a while but I just took my time and eventually I was done and was very happy no debris fell into my engine,
Any ideas on how to remove a ball of sticky gaffer tape out of the cylinder - I'll stick to thin piping attached to vacumn cleaner nozzle Always best to loosen your plug and have a look to see if any debris before removing the plug.
This happened to me once but the pieces fell on top of the piston. I bought a diagnostic camera and the long thing you used in the video and removed the big pieces. The other shards I ended up pouring 2 stroke mix (Gas and oil) into the cylinder and hitting the starter and it blew everything up LOL.... Luckily nothing broke
I first used a (taped) garden hose over a thin vacuum cleaner nozzle which picked up a couple of big fragments. Then I used a small plastic drinking straw attached to a metal straw attached to the garden hose to suck up the other fragments at the base of the plug thread. The straw jammed up a couple of times with larger pieces of porcelain, but it worked. A high powered LED head torch makes things a lot easier, I use a Petzl one. Luckily mine shattered before the plug/thread was fully out, so nothing seems to have fallen in the combustion chamber. Looks like the same plug you're holding actually, blue stripes.. NGK platinum plug. I replaced them with Denso Iridium.
Hey bud, do you think a skinny nozzle on a shop-vac could work? My plug wouldn't budge and shattered and now I'm scared I'm really gonna mess stuff up if I don't get the shards out, but it looks like there's no room to fit something as big as your duct tape ball since my spark plug is still in there. What do you think?
Yeah that can work if the suction is good. You can also try a thin copper wire and put a chewed gum at the tip that is not too sticky but enough to grab particles. Another thing you can try is high pressure air compressor with a long tube. Put it inside the well and blow it in with sudden pressure. That would get things out. Make sure wear safety glasses.
How To do it Great ideas man. I really appreciate it, I feel like an idiot for getting into this boat in the first place but you're helping my confidence. Stay awesome
Update: vacuum method worked wonders, though I'd suggest a plastic straw as opposed to a metal reusable type, (I ended up just shoving a Taco Bell straw onto my metal straw to get the end to fit past the plug itself) also the duct tape method helped with the biggest piece that wouldn't come up past the plug. To anyone else in this boat, you may have been using the wrong sized socket. Just make sure you've got the right one, you'll know when it's on the plug. It sounds stupid obvious but test the new damn spark plugs on the socket you've got before you shove it in the engine bay. Again, thanks man.
I was re-threading my messed-up plug hole, and there is a tight insert you add that the new plug sits in. Tight. My FREIND knocked it into hole while I went to get a tool. I see no easy way to retrieve it.
My friend has a 2016 ford focus and we were replacing the factory spark plugs and I've never been more disappointed, we needed breaker bars to get the spark plugs out but 2 of them shattered before we could even get them out, we've tried everything to get that porcelain out but no luck, so I'm hoping this video works.
@@HowToDoitright we tried a vacuum, I’m going to bring out my moms shop vac tomorrow and hopefully try a straw or something on it, it’s set up so weirdly, there’s coils that go onto the spark plugs but for some reason there’s a tunnel right above them that inter connects all three
Also, we needed to get some special spark plug tool because they’re smaller than normal and they are like a 14mm socket size, they’ve been nothing but trouble
@@HowToDoitright We actually didnt even get 2 of them out because we were trying to take it off and I guess the factory torqued them down to hard but we put some pressure and the porcelain popped and we took our tool out to look and its all around the bolt. Even if we wanted to take it out now, we have to clear the stuff out because the porcelain is blocking us from puttting our tool around the "bolt" or "socket" I don't know the exact word.
Related question, how durable is the porcelain on a spark plug? My sister's Nissan Sentra has the spark plugs way down inside a deep opening (about 6 inches, by my estimation) and when her husband tried to change the spark plugs, he dropped a socket down inside which wrapped itself around the spark plug stem and we can't reach it to pull it out. An AutoZone clerk said taking the head (is that what it's called) off to reach it was easy, but we looked at it and it looks like too big a job for us. As far as we can tell, the spark plug is still tight and since the socket can't fall any further, my dad, a pretty experienced mechanic (but too old to actually help), is sure that the car is safe to drive (temporarily, of course). I wanted to get some opinions as to how much danger there is of engine vibration causing the socket to break the porcelain. From what we can tell, the socket appears to be pretty snug around the spark plug.
It won’t cause any damage so don’t worry. What I suggest is loosen up the plug and remove it. Or you can turn the socket left right using an extension and it will loose the socket enough to pull it out or it will loose it enough to pull out with a magnet stick.
@@HowToDoitright We tried a magnet. I bought the strongest one I could find (16 lbs), but because the spark plug stem seems to stick up through the socket, we couldn't make contact with the magnet to grab it and pull it out.
@@HowToDoitright We can't seem to find a spark plug removal tool that will fit inside the space where the spark plug is. And at least with that socket stuck down inside, there's nothing else for another socket to actually grip to loosen and remove the spark plug. Apologies if I'm not explaining things clearly. Try as my dad did, mechanical repair skills just seemed to elude me.
@@Nomad416 there is no special tool. It’s the same standard wrench with an extension. Allnsocket removal sockets are same for all cars. Nothing special. It has a rubber inside the socket to hold the spark plug. All you need is an socket extension to insert into the socket that you dropped inside and pull it out. If you are clueless then take it to a mechanic and they will get it out.
So this is a video of how to clean porcelain out of a spark plug well. Oh my goodness thank you. If it's busted in crammed in there this video of how to clean porcelain out of a spark plug well. Oh my goodness thank you. If it's not a typical RUclips job lay up then this video will do you diddly poo, what you need to do is spray liquid nitrogen on it or refrigerant or take a can of dusters and turn it upside down and freeze it and then crack it
Have to drill and tap mine,it will pass small pieces of the porcelain through the vavle and break up into dust the electrode it very important to get out with a magnet it will scar the cylinder walls if not and will not pass through the exhaust valve.
You can use high pressure compressed air to blow it out of the hole. Sometimes it’s hard to remove it and compressed air works great. Some people start the car with one piston not connected and sometimes it blows it out of the hole.
@@HowToDoitright If I turn the car on without the one spark plug in, will it cause damage? I've got 4 pieces of porcelain in my cylinder. Even if I could blow them towards the center so I can use the tape method
Why does everyone say get a vacuum cleaner skinny, nozzle or a straw or tape a special tool I did it with an air compressor I blew most of the porcelain around the spark plug then I used the vacuum cleaner before taking it out once out I looked inside the engine with a borescope while a friend turned slowly the crankshaft manually finally left the plug out and cranked the engine a couple of times so the engine would blow out any small pieces left
I actually started out using tape and a screw driver but it wasn't long enough. I also thought about using a car jack on the left side of my car so that the pieces were on one side of the cylinder .it's a shame because I only had one more spark plug to replace then this happens!
That is the worst idea possible. You could do horrible harm to the engine and instead of possibly having to take off the valve cover you could be having to repair much more.
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Thanks for the video. I tried to blow out the debris out and had no luck and forgot all about using my grabber and was able to get out all debris and also used the tape also and seeing it was on my 5.7L Hemi in the rear it took a while but I just took my time and eventually I was done and was very happy no debris fell into my engine,
Great job!
U saved my day thanks :)
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Any ideas on how to remove a ball of sticky gaffer tape out of the cylinder - I'll stick to thin piping attached to vacumn cleaner nozzle
Always best to loosen your plug and have a look to see if any debris before removing the plug.
This happened to me once but the pieces fell on top of the piston. I bought a diagnostic camera and the long thing you used in the video and removed the big pieces. The other shards I ended up pouring 2 stroke mix (Gas and oil) into the cylinder and hitting the starter and it blew everything up LOL.... Luckily nothing broke
Good idea
Where is the best store to get these like the metal grabber and the magnet antenna
You can get it from amazon or any auto part stores. I got it from homedepot long ago. Haven’t seen it there lately.
I first used a (taped) garden hose over a thin vacuum cleaner nozzle which picked up a couple of big fragments. Then I used a small plastic drinking straw attached to a metal straw attached to the garden hose to suck up the other fragments at the base of the plug thread. The straw jammed up a couple of times with larger pieces of porcelain, but it worked. A high powered LED head torch makes things a lot easier, I use a Petzl one.
Luckily mine shattered before the plug/thread was fully out, so nothing seems to have fallen in the combustion chamber. Looks like the same plug you're holding actually, blue stripes.. NGK platinum plug. I replaced them with Denso Iridium.
Oh wow. Good tips thanks for sharing
Thanks for the garden hose idea. I use a shop vac but the nozzle wasn’t thin enough.
Hey bud, do you think a skinny nozzle on a shop-vac could work? My plug wouldn't budge and shattered and now I'm scared I'm really gonna mess stuff up if I don't get the shards out, but it looks like there's no room to fit something as big as your duct tape ball since my spark plug is still in there. What do you think?
Yeah that can work if the suction is good. You can also try a thin copper wire and put a chewed gum at the tip that is not too sticky but enough to grab particles.
Another thing you can try is high pressure air compressor with a long tube. Put it inside the well and blow it in with sudden pressure. That would get things out. Make sure wear safety glasses.
How To do it Great ideas man. I really appreciate it, I feel like an idiot for getting into this boat in the first place but you're helping my confidence. Stay awesome
Update: vacuum method worked wonders, though I'd suggest a plastic straw as opposed to a metal reusable type, (I ended up just shoving a Taco Bell straw onto my metal straw to get the end to fit past the plug itself) also the duct tape method helped with the biggest piece that wouldn't come up past the plug. To anyone else in this boat, you may have been using the wrong sized socket. Just make sure you've got the right one, you'll know when it's on the plug. It sounds stupid obvious but test the new damn spark plugs on the socket you've got before you shove it in the engine bay. Again, thanks man.
glad it helped bro
Im in ur position right now I see some broken pieces and I immediately stopped to prevent thr porcelain from falling in
I was re-threading my messed-up plug hole, and there is a tight insert you add that the new plug sits in. Tight. My FREIND knocked it into hole while I went to get a tool. I see no easy way to retrieve it.
If you go in with a camera to verify the valves are closed, couldnt you use some oil in the cylinder and then a fluid suction tool to get it?
No never do that
My friend has a 2016 ford focus and we were replacing the factory spark plugs and I've never been more disappointed, we needed breaker bars to get the spark plugs out but 2 of them shattered before we could even get them out, we've tried everything to get that porcelain out but no luck, so I'm hoping this video works.
Also try a strong vacuum. That also works
@@HowToDoitright we tried a vacuum, I’m going to bring out my moms shop vac tomorrow and hopefully try a straw or something on it, it’s set up so weirdly, there’s coils that go onto the spark plugs but for some reason there’s a tunnel right above them that inter connects all three
Also, we needed to get some special spark plug tool because they’re smaller than normal and they are like a 14mm socket size, they’ve been nothing but trouble
So are you saying you removed the broken plug and porcelain fell inside the engine?
@@HowToDoitright We actually didnt even get 2 of them out because we were trying to take it off and I guess the factory torqued them down to hard but we put some pressure and the porcelain popped and we took our tool out to look and its all around the bolt. Even if we wanted to take it out now, we have to clear the stuff out because the porcelain is blocking us from puttting our tool around the "bolt" or "socket" I don't know the exact word.
Related question, how durable is the porcelain on a spark plug? My sister's Nissan Sentra has the spark plugs way down inside a deep opening (about 6 inches, by my estimation) and when her husband tried to change the spark plugs, he dropped a socket down inside which wrapped itself around the spark plug stem and we can't reach it to pull it out. An AutoZone clerk said taking the head (is that what it's called) off to reach it was easy, but we looked at it and it looks like too big a job for us. As far as we can tell, the spark plug is still tight and since the socket can't fall any further, my dad, a pretty experienced mechanic (but too old to actually help), is sure that the car is safe to drive (temporarily, of course). I wanted to get some opinions as to how much danger there is of engine vibration causing the socket to break the porcelain. From what we can tell, the socket appears to be pretty snug around the spark plug.
They sell these long sticks with magnet top. Use it to remove the socket.
It won’t cause any damage so don’t worry. What I suggest is loosen up the plug and remove it. Or you can turn the socket left right using an extension and it will loose the socket enough to pull it out or it will loose it enough to pull out with a magnet stick.
@@HowToDoitright We tried a magnet. I bought the strongest one I could find (16 lbs), but because the spark plug stem seems to stick up through the socket, we couldn't make contact with the magnet to grab it and pull it out.
@@HowToDoitright We can't seem to find a spark plug removal tool that will fit inside the space where the spark plug is. And at least with that socket stuck down inside, there's nothing else for another socket to actually grip to loosen and remove the spark plug.
Apologies if I'm not explaining things clearly. Try as my dad did, mechanical repair skills just seemed to elude me.
@@Nomad416 there is no special tool. It’s the same standard wrench with an extension. Allnsocket removal sockets are same for all cars. Nothing special. It has a rubber inside the socket to hold the spark plug. All you need is an socket extension to insert into the socket that you dropped inside and pull it out.
If you are clueless then take it to a mechanic and they will get it out.
So this is a video of how to clean porcelain out of a spark plug well. Oh my goodness thank you. If it's busted in crammed in there this video of how to clean porcelain out of a spark plug well. Oh my goodness thank you. If it's not a typical RUclips job lay up then this video will do you diddly poo, what you need to do is spray liquid nitrogen on it or refrigerant or take a can of dusters and turn it upside down and freeze it and then crack it
Have to drill and tap mine,it will pass small pieces of the porcelain through the vavle and break up into dust the electrode it very important to get out with a magnet it will scar the cylinder walls if not and will not pass through the exhaust valve.
Adam are you there I need you lol 😆
@@VirginiaBoy703 lol,..broke the spark plug?
What will happen if the piece of porcelain can't remove inside the hole can cause damage to the engine & cylinder head?
Yes it will damage piston.
You can use high pressure compressed air to blow it out of the hole. Sometimes it’s hard to remove it and compressed air works great. Some people start the car with one piston not connected and sometimes it blows it out of the hole.
@@HowToDoitright do u gotta leave it on for a certain while cuz im dealin with this problem right now at this very moment
@@DAVID-lm9qj not sure what you mean by leaving it for a certain while? It sticks as you move it around
@@HowToDoitright If I turn the car on without the one spark plug in, will it cause damage? I've got 4 pieces of porcelain in my cylinder. Even if I could blow them towards the center so I can use the tape method
I have a ford too it’s always a ford mine broke at the ground tang and porcelain inside the bore 🤦🏻♂️
What if its packed in there
Antwayan Owens you should remove pieces first and use a strong vacuum to get all out and then try to break it loose
Why does everyone say get a vacuum cleaner skinny, nozzle or a straw or tape a special tool I did it with an air compressor I blew most of the porcelain around the spark plug then I used the vacuum cleaner before taking it out once out I looked inside the engine with a borescope while a friend turned slowly the crankshaft manually finally left the plug out and cranked the engine a couple of times so the engine would blow out any small pieces left
I used a blower attachment on my compressor before I removed the rest of the spark plug it blew it right out
you can also get a pneumatic vacuum attachment for your air compressor with various crevice attachments that have extremely strong suction..
Everyone doesn’t have a compressor just sitting around
Easier to just use double sided 3m tape with a pick tool
Yes only if you have it handy
Air compressor is the way to go
vacuum?
Didn’t work in my case
Yea lol should have watched this, on the bright side the new dd gets all arp hardware
I actually started out using tape and a screw driver but it wasn't long enough. I also thought about using a car jack on the left side of my car so that the pieces were on one side of the cylinder .it's a shame because I only had one more spark plug to replace then this happens!
Ah man that sucks
Wouldn’t work
Another thing you could do is crank your engine with that 1. Plug out and the compression should blow the particles out of the hole.
That is the worst idea possible. You could do horrible harm to the engine and instead of possibly having to take off the valve cover you could be having to repair much more.