<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You need to find yourself a “thin walled” socket. The last time I had to do that it meant getting a cheap one from a variety store - it hurt me to do that..<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eric</div><div class="">1979 MGB V8</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jan 2021, at 12:15 pm, Michael MacLean <<a href="mailto:rrengineer.mike@att.net" class="">rrengineer.mike@att.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">I tried to install new plugs in my 1969 MGB GT today. I was not successful. I don't know what genius designed the aluminum head, but a normal spark plug socket for a 14mm spark plug does not go all the way dow to fully engage the head. Maybe it was cast incorrectly, I don't know. There is a wall in the casting right so close to all four plugs it prevents the socket from going all the way down to engage the hex of the plug. Not sure how the DPO did it. I tried a deep socket with thin walls. I even tried using a wrench to get it loose. Not enough room for that either. What the heck? Anyone with a aluminum head run into this?<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1611018872579" class="">Mike MacLean</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1611018879987" class="">1969 MGB GT</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1611018895117" class="">1960 Bugeye</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1611018904452" class="">1956 Austi Healey BN2<br class=""><br class=""><div id="ymail_android_signature" class=""><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" class="">Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class=""><br class=""><a href="mailto:Mgs@autox.team.net" class="">Mgs@autox.team.net</a><br class="">Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html<br class="">Suggested annual donation $12.75<br class=""><br class="">Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/mgs http://autox.team.net/archive<br class=""><br class="">Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/mgs/eric@erickson.on.net<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>