[s-cars] Gone fishing in spark plug holes

[Sean Douglas]

The exact thing happened to me yesterday - a piece of the rubber boot fell
into the hole. I used a small dentist pick (I'm not a dentist) to pull it
high enough and grabbed it with needle nose pliers.

Sean


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thompson" <thompson at audisport.com>
To: <skippertgore at hotmail.com>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 12:26 PM
Subject: [s-cars] Gone fishing in spark plug holes


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> FWIW, drop down your ShopVac first and clean up each spark plug hole
BEFORE
> removing any spark plugs - just in case. Sunday I was doing a simple 30k
> service and got to plug #5 on my S6. Yes, most were loose. The new one
> wouldn't thread in. Hmmm. Looked in the hole and low and behold there was
a
> small (2/3 rds size of the original boot end) half in the hole and half
out.
> I tried to put a screw driver down there to stop it from dropping in.
Didn't
> work and it fell in - gone fishing... Not that the small amount of rubber
> would have hurt anything when running, but I didn't want to take any
chances
> and that area is for petrol and air mixture only! I now know how to remove
> an original piece of plug boot that drops into a cylinder - ouch. Took me
> some time to figure out how to fish it out (about 5hours), but now I've
got
> the "Custom ShopVac - McGuiver/Thompson" lure ready for AAN rental.
> Priceless.
>
> This was all because I sold my urquattro, I knew it - all for the Audi
Gods!
>
> Spark Plug installation
> Tighten down by hand and crush the washer then back off, loosen and
retorque
> to 25-28 ft lbs. Do NOT use any anti-sieze. Has been known to leak into
> cylinder cavity per Keith Anderson. Retorque at 1,000 miles.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thompson Smith
> 88 type44
> 93 //S4
> 95 //S6
>
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