spark plug stuck...grrrr

[rob hod]

    Would that be the 'technical guru' of the QOC?

rob
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> Reply-To: "Phil Payne" <quattro at isham-research.com>
> From: "Phil Payne" <quattro at isham-research.com>
> To: <quattro at audifans.com>
> Subject: Re: spark plug stuck...grrrr
> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:13:59 +0100
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> > seem to remember mr payne has a similar problem a
> > while ago...can't remember for sure how it was
> > resolved but i suspect it was not a happy ending
>
> Twern't me.  I can't remember where it happened - either at Castle Coombe
or Silverstone.  It was Galvin, who reacted to a #1 plug
> that resisted his blandishments with a selection of ever-larger breaker
bars until he finally managed to get the top half of it in
> his hand.
>
> I was happily engaged in someone else's engine bay at the time - I first
became aware of the fuss when he borrowed my poserphone (he
> never charges the batteries in his own) to call a flatbed.  The car was
carted to Roger's workshop, where further unhealthy things
> happened to it, but that's another story. Quite a long one, actually.
>
> I don't know how the owner got home that day.  Rugby Motor Engineering
Services got the plug remnants out without damaging the
> threads after I took the head off.
>
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