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Old 06-08-2013, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by LeighP View Post
Had a spark plug break off and leave the base in the head. Took a lot of playing around with Easi-outs to remove it. I made up a small piece of plastic tube and sealed it into a vacuum cleaner and sucked out any little pieces that were in the piston, crossed my fingers and fired it up with a new plug in it.
There was this pinging rattling sound as a little piece of spark plug bounced around the cylinder, I gave it a quick rev and blew it out of the exhaust valve, lol.
I hope never again to do that......
The screw on the one I pictured bent 2 pushrods, but the car ran fine for who knows how many years if not from new. Not sure why I even rebuilt it now that I think about it. Glad I did though scoots nice now.

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