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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><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">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">'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><br></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.<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>