<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Michael,</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Charlie<br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Michael" <michael.salter@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk>, "healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, November 13, 2015 9:52:37 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Healeys] Core plug extraction<br><div><br></div><style><!--
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--></style><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">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.<br>The end of the screw will eventually hit something and then the core plug will pop out of its seat.<br>Michael S<br>BN1 #174</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk" target="_blank">Simon Lachlan</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">12/11/2015 10:16 a.m.</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">'healeys'</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[Healeys] Core plug extraction</span><br><div><br></div></div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">I noted the other day what a ghastly job that is. Always possible and nearly always bl**dy awkward.</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.</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???</p><p class="MsoNormal">Simon</p></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html<br>Suggested annual donation $12.75<br>Archive: http://www.team.net/archive<br>Forums: http://www.team.net/forums<br><div><br></div>Healeys@autox.team.net<br>http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys<br><div><br></div>Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/mgcharlie@comcast.net<br><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>