What did you do to your Patrol today!

Hey Toddstar, the Yanks must call Penetrene "Liquid Wrench It" as Craig has kindly suggested.
https://youtu.be/zrF6SsbLwfM
This could surely work mate !

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Originally Posted by Winnie

Dammit Todd! I wish I could help you mate, I would love to see you back in the patrol.

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Thanks mate...... Yeh not happening now...... will see me in the depression thread on Thursday when I start my holidays and sit out the front looking at it with an icy cold beer in my hand......would of loved 2 of had taken the Patrol away on holidays, esp considering we are only down the road from Stockton Beach :(

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Originally Posted by mudnut

Soak the damn thing with penetrene for a coupla weeks and have another go. Forwards - backwards. Or run it on five cylinders till it warms up and try again. I have had some success drilling out a fastener and peeling the thread out with a pointed pick. I suppose stopping any metal entering the bore is a problem, with that idea. I had to run a tap through the thread on number 4 cylinder when I first got my Old Trol. I used a vaccum cleaner with a small diameter rubber hose to suck out the swarf from the bore.

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Been soaked a fair bit, I was just using wd40 but the mechanic used some sort of carbon spray and had more luck, Can't run it on 5 cylinders now we did that when it first didn't budge, warmed it up for a while tried again and snapped the tip of the easy out into the bore :(

Sad thing was I wanted the mechanic 2 do it all ( including the plugs ) but he is pretty flat out so I done some work myself so I would save some money and he would have 2 spend more time on it then needed be

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Originally Posted by MB

Hey Toddstar, the Yanks must call Penetrene "Liquid Wrench It" as Craig has kindly suggested.
https://youtu.be/zrF6SsbLwfM
This could surely work mate !

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Cheers, thanks for the link, will look into it

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Originally Posted by NissanGQ4.2

Been soaked a fair bit, I was just using wd40 but the mechanic used some sort of carbon spray and had more luck, Can't run it on 5 cylinders now we did that when it first didn't budge, warmed it up for a while tried again and snapped the tip of the easy out into the bore :(

Sad thing was I wanted the mechanic 2 do it all ( including the plugs ) but he is pretty flat out so I done some work myself so I would save some money and he would have 2 spend more time on it then needed be

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Bugger. There is probably no harm increasing the size of the hole and inserting a bit of wire with a hook on the end and removing the carbon built up on the exposed thread on the plug.

Are you able to drill a hole into the centre of the plug - mentioned use of easy-out? I have used a product in the past from loctite which is a freeze agent. The concept is to lower the temp of the plug and have it contract, more or less the reverse of the warm engine approach. Of course if you have deformed the threads or managed to even slightly cross threaded them this won't help. Nuke the plug via the hole then get straight onto it with a big breaker bar wrench/socket or even a powerful 240v impact gun. Once it moves, don't stop, then address any issues with thread later, that would be my approach.

Just reading and was about to suggest a can of Freeze all or what ever they call it these days.
Happened to me years ago on a T120 triumph spark plug,previous owner cross threaded it grrrr
Penetrene is a great product, is there any way you can "shock" the plug to help break the seal.
But what a biatch eh one plug grounding you, it will probaly require a helicoil anyway 14mm x 1.5 pitch
if I was close by I'd lend a hand but ...........two heads better than one

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Originally Posted by NissanGQ4.2

Got it towed from the mechanics back home :(

Mechanic managed 2 move the snapped spark plug a bit but couldn't get it any further, can't justify ( well I can but missus can't ) spending 1500 - 2k in removing the head and getting it machined, I'm not a happy camper and public transport 2 and from work sucks the big one :(:(:(

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let me know if you want me to pop over and see what i can do, i do have afew different extraction tools at work

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Originally Posted by garett

let me know if you want me to pop over and see what i can do, i do have afew different extraction tools at work

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Thanks @garett for the offer, I'm going 2 give the Loctite freeze and release that Phil (@PBBIZ2) mentioned a go

http://www.loctite.com.au/3320_AUE_H...=8802649931777

If that fails I might burn it or turn it into a big BBQ

And thanks to everyone for the suggestions :)

Finally got the motivation to start the false floor in the back of the GQ .
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