<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>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.<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>"healeymanjim" <healeymanjim@hansencc.net><br><b>To: </b>"Charlie" <mgcharlie@comcast.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, November 15, 2015 9:54:12 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Healeys] Core plug extraction<br><div><br></div>where is there room to put a slide hammer unless you remove the carbs and exhaust?<br><div><br></div>> -------Original Message-------<br>> From: Charlie <mgcharlie@comcast.net><br>> To:<br>> Cc: healeys <healeys@autox.team.net><br>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Core plug extraction<br>> Sent: Nov 13 '15 11:56<br>> <br>> Michael,<br>> <br>> I do something similar, at least using a lag screw. My cheap slide<br>> hammer kit has a lag screw attachment, so I drill a hole for the screw<br>> and use the slide hammer to pop it out.<br>> <br>> Charlie<br>> <br>> -------------------------<br>> <br>> FROM: "Michael" <michael.salter@gmail.com><br>> TO: "Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk>, "healeys"<br>> <healeys@autox.team.net><br>> SENT: Friday, November 13, 2015 9:52:37 AM<br>> SUBJECT: Re: [Healeys] Core plug extraction<br>> <br>> Not sure if a satisfactory solution has been found but I have found<br>> that the easiest way is to drill a hole in the middle then thread a<br>> long hardened lag screw through that hole.<br>> The end of the screw will eventually hit something and then the core<br>> plug will pop out of its seat.<br>> Michael S<br>> BN1 #174<br>> <br>> -------------------------<br>> From: Simon Lachlan<br>> Sent: 12/11/2015 10:16 a.m.<br>> To: 'healeys'<br>> Subject: [Healeys] Core plug extraction<br>> <br>> I noted the other day what a ghastly job that is. Always possible and<br>> nearly always bl**dy awkward.<br>> <br>> I’ve seen clips of guys – always with the engine in pieces on the<br>> bench – who just bang one lip inwards until the plug swivels in the<br>> hole. Then they just grab it with a mole(?!) wrench or similar and<br>> hoik it out. So easy.<br>> <br>> I love my car dearly but I always expect the most cussed things of it<br>> and I’m seldom disappointed. Surely if I were to bang in those that<br>> I could reach, they’d just vanish inside, never to be seen again???<br>> <br>> Simon<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>> <br>> Healeys@autox.team.net<br>> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys<br>> <br>> Unsubscribe/Manage:<br>> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/mgcharlie@comcast.net<br>> <br>> -------------------------<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>> <br>> Healeys@autox.team.net<br>> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys<br>> <br>> Unsubscribe/Manage:<br>> http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/healeymanjim@hansencc.net<br>> <br>> <br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>