Gassy Spark Plug Holes Pictures

[Brett Dikeman]

At 1:13 PM -0500 12/14/01, Alexander van Gerbig wrote:
>     Here are some pics of the odd rust colored power I am getting on my lead
>ends.

I get it on my 200q20v, not nearly as bad though.  I think it's
pretty much common with all deep-plug audi head, and the aluminium
head doesn't help.  Every time I check the plugs, I find the
anti-sieze I put on is -always- blown out completely(and nowhere to
be found), the plugs are loose, and the threads on the plug
completely covered in brown rust.  Unfortunately, getting the torque
on them exactly to spec isn't very easy, unless you find a socket
that will get in down there...otherwise, its called "Name that Torque
Starring the Funny Wrench."

I just grumble, clean the threads on the plug, reapply AS, clean the
terminal and the inside connector on the wires with CaiKleen and
DeOxit, and put it all back together again.

As a side note, I've always wanted to make a "donut" at the proper
height on the tire-iron wrench to properly keep it dead-center in the
hole.  Plug removal is like scraping fingernails down a blackboard,
can't be good for the threads on the block...

B


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