[Healeys] Core plug extraction

[Bob Spidell]

Ingenious, but you'd probably want to dull the tip of the lag screw. 


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From: "Michael" <michael.salter at gmail.com> 
To: "Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk>, "healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net> 
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 6:52:37 AM 
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Core plug extraction 

Not sure if a satisfactory solution has been found but I have found that the easiest way is to drill a hole in the middle then thread a long hardened lag screw through that hole. 
The end of the screw will eventually hit something and then the core plug will pop out of its seat. 
Michael S 
BN1 #174 

From: Simon Lachlan 
Sent: ‎12/‎11/‎2015 10:16 a.m. 
To: 'healeys' 
Subject: [Healeys] Core plug extraction 



I noted the other day what a ghastly job that is. Always possible and nearly always bl**dy awkward. 

I’ve seen clips of guys – always with the engine in pieces on the bench – who just bang one lip inwards until the plug swivels in the hole. Then they just grab it with a mole(?!) wrench or similar and hoik it out. So easy. 

I love my car dearly but I always expect the most cussed things of it and I’m seldom disappointed. Surely if I were to bang in those that I could reach, they’d just vanish inside, never to be seen again??? 

Simon 




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