[Healeys] Core plug extraction

[Charlie]

There's lots of room when the engine is out, and you are replacing the core plugs when you are supposed to, at engine overhaul time. 

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From: "healeymanjim" <healeymanjim at hansencc.net> 
To: "Charlie" <mgcharlie at comcast.net> 
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2015 9:54:12 PM 
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Core plug extraction 

where is there room to put a slide hammer unless you remove the carbs and exhaust? 

> -------Original Message------- 
> From: Charlie <mgcharlie at comcast.net> 
> To: 
> Cc: healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> 
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Core plug extraction 
> Sent: Nov 13 '15 11:56 
> 
> Michael, 
> 
> I do something similar, at least using a lag screw. My cheap slide 
> hammer kit has a lag screw attachment, so I drill a hole for the screw 
> and use the slide hammer to pop it out. 
> 
> Charlie 
> 
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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 9:52:37 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 
> 
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> 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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