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it is possible there were none. thats great you got it out. i highly recommend you coat the threads in copper antisieze compound. it will make life much easier down the road
if you drill all the way to the bottom of the hole where the copper gasket would be sitting you will separate the electrode from the body. you dont want to do that. just drill in 3/4" of so. enough to get an easy out in there or something then the whole thing will come out together....hopefully.
well not really. as long as you dont go so deep that you bottom out and separate the electrode from the body. if you do that then the electrode could end up in the engine.
Well i would do whatever i had to to get it out. If you pull the injector just the tip sticks through into the port. Pull the injector, Drill it, heat it and just work it that way.
yeah the champions are usually $15-19 each. the ones being sold for $58 are the original mil-spec wellman plugs. the wellmans are good and come with the copper washer but they dont seem any better than the champions. i have used both. wellman/dieselrx quit making those plugs. not sure if they...
here is a mcmaster part#
94397A542
same specs. only .004 bigger outside dia. i hardly think that would make a difference on that. mcmaster is really quick on shipping too.
yeah book, those two sources seem to be pretty reliable and reasonable for the plugs. rockauto i think only sells them in a 10pk. last i checked anyway. i dont have any washers around or i would mic one up to get the measurements. might be able to just find copper washers that will work. just a...
the ch42 champion plug that is in the link is the proper glow plug. you cant go by what champion says. unfortunately they dont even know what the thread size is for it.