[s-cars] Help! How do I get the spark plugs out of an AAN???

[Tony Curran]

Paul,

The spark plug requires a 16mm long reach socket - check your local Home
Depot or similar. Car parts stores may have one with the rubber bung to
catch the tip of the plug. You may also need a driver extension if you don't
already have one.

Good luck,

Tony
96 S6

-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Robert Myers
Sent: June 12, 2005 9:01 AM
To: Paul Heneghan
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: RE: [s-cars] Help! How do I get the spark plugs out of an
AAN???



So Hans und Fritz messed that one up as well.  Sorry, Paul.  :-(  The lug
wrench which came in the little tool kit which came with my urS6 does have
the integral spark plug wrench.

Meanwhile, are you sure the miss is plug related?  Might it be a failed PSO
channel?  To test, swap all four connector plugs between the two PSO
units.  (Note that the two PSO units are upside down WRT each other.)  If
the miss moves to cylinder #4 then it's the PSO not the plug.  If that's
the case then switching the wires from the bad PSO channel to the empty PSO
channel will solve the immediate problem.  Then you have some time to
locate the proper plug wrench.

At 08:53 AM 6/12/2005, Paul Heneghan wrote:

>Thanks for the quick reply Bob, but...
>
>I had already tried the lug wrench in my S6's tool kit, and it didn't have
>the plug wrench at the other end - it was just a circular tube!  I've just
>gone out and tried my wife's lug wrench, and hers DOES have the spark plug
>wrench at the other end, but it's also too big to fit down the recess
>either.  I've now tried two 1/2" square drive spark plug wrenches, a
>Morris Minor spark plug wrench and a 1996 UK S6 wrench and they're all too
>big to fit down the hole.
>
>Am I being exceptionally stupid here?  I've never been defeated by a spark
>plug before.
>
>Paul
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Myers [mailto:robert at s-cars.org]
>Sent: 12 June 2005 13:32
>To: Paul Heneghan; s-car-list at audifans.com
>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Help! How do I get the spark plugs out of an AAN???
>
>
>Use the long end of your lug wrench.  It's a plug wrench.  You can also
>use the screwdriver handle inserted into the short end to increase your
>leverage for the job.  Hans und Fritz managed to get that one right.
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