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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks for this, but I’m not talking about opening a lip, just banging one lip inwards ie with, say,m a round drift of +/- 4mm. Banging it on the lip, at 90° to the plug’s flat surface, trying to push that side inwards so the other side swivels outwards into the jaws of your grips. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Yes, opening a lip sounds like a recipe for disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Driving in a spike and levering outwards works but can be a real pain if the thing’s been in there for 50 years and/or depending on what sort of vile gloop the PO used as a seal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Bluehealey [mailto:bluehealey@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 12, 2015 17:04<br><b>To:</b> 'Simon Lachlan'; 'healeys'<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Healeys] Core plug extraction<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Trying to open a lip as you describe sounds tricky with the potential for gouging the wall of the plug opening. I just drive a spike through the centre and lever out the plug. They are quite soft, compared to cast iron, and it has never presented a problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>What tricks do others have?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Alan Bromfield<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Modified BN4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Work in Progress AN5<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><img width=192 height=87 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D11D6D.1C7B2BD0"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Healeys [<a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net">mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Simon Lachlan<br><b>Sent:</b> 12 November 2015 15:15<br><b>To:</b> 'healeys'<br><b>Subject:</b> [Healeys] Core plug extraction<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I noted the other day what a ghastly job that is. Always possible and nearly always bl**dy awkward.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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???<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Simon<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>