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2CViking
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 Sparkplug- insert or helicoil Used both but what have you used and did it last?
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twofifty AZU
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Re: Sparkplug- insert or helicoil Helicoil, I've found the Snap On style inserts come out with the first spark plug change.
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2CViking
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Re: Sparkplug- insert or helicoil twofifty AZU wrote: Helicoil, I've found the Snap On style inserts come out with the first spark plug change. With or without nut-lock?
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602
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Re: Sparkplug- insert or helicoil Change the cylinder head, you know it makes sense in the long run.
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Joe
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Re: Sparkplug- insert or helicoil One of my cylinders has a threaded insert. no problems with it since it had been done. but i have not been there when during spark plug changes so im not sure what would be better.
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2CViking
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Re: Sparkplug- insert or helicoil 602 wrote: Change the cylinder head, you know it makes sense in the long run. No I'm not a parts exchanger, I'm a repairer 
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twofifty AZU
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Re: Sparkplug- insert or helicoil 2CViking wrote: twofifty AZU wrote: Helicoil, I've found the Snap On style inserts come out with the first spark plug change. With or without nut-lock? As in loctite? You don't use loctite with a helicoil.
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4x4 SuperFinn
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Joined: February 13th, 2009, 10:34 am
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Re: Sparkplug- insert or helicoil GSA plug with the longer threaded part?
Just dont wind it in too far...
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toomany2cvs
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Re: Sparkplug- insert or helicoil twofifty AZU wrote: 2CViking wrote: twofifty AZU wrote: Helicoil, I've found the Snap On style inserts come out with the first spark plug change. With or without nut-lock? As in loctite? You don't use loctite with a helicoil. No, but you may well do with an insert.  
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ken
Agony Aunt - You have a car problem? Speak to Ken
Joined: March 6th, 2009, 1:40 am
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Re: Sparkplug- insert or helicoil Viking, I've used KD inserts a long time back, but even with the correct ( high temperature?) thread locking compound, they had a habit of coming out with the plug.  < http://www.mytoolstore.com/kd/kdengi11.html > After that, the local motor cycle shop would fit Timeserts, but only if the head was removed from the engine. < http://www.timesert.com/html/mtrcsert.html > Those were very good, however the bike shop closed down so I started using Helicoils and have never had a problem with one I've fitted. At Kelso, even though I wasn't connected with the 'on site' garage, they ran out of Helicoils and 'borrowed' more than a few of the supply of spark plug Helicoils I happened to be carrying with me. Paul, interesting that you should advise changing the head, since a time served engineer I know would fit helicoils in the heads of any engines he was building, as a matter of course. Not just the plug threads, but the M7 threads on both the oil feeds and inlet manifolds as well... ken.
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