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Anyone use those little sand blasting spark plug cleaners?

Old May 15, 2006 | 07:23 PM
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Anyone use those little sand blasting spark plug cleaners?

Anyone, what's a good one?
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Old May 15, 2006 | 08:32 PM
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harbor freight one works fine. there are always a bunch on ebay.

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Old May 15, 2006 | 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by GoodfellaFD3S
harbor freight one works fine. there are always a bunch on ebay.

P.S. your new sig sucks *****
I saw the little green one at Harbor Freight, I'll go buy that one if it's a good one

my sig is busted
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Old May 15, 2006 | 10:06 PM
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I've got one of the Harbor Freight ones. Works quite well - blows all the crap off the plugs. I've never had known-fouled plugs (like from bad flooding) and tried to clean them in the doodad. But, I have run plugs that I've cleaned, and they work just fine.

I think it's well worth it - much cheaper than new plugs! Very easy to use, takes only a few seconds to clean a plug.

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Old May 18, 2006 | 02:33 AM
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I have the harbor freight one and it works great. Now, only if i can find replacement washers for the plugs.
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Old May 18, 2006 | 06:35 AM
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You cheap bastard... you want to drive around with C16 at $10/g but you don't want to pay $30 a peice for new plugs...? Come on now.. haha.

Is that Zengief from street fighter flying around in the sig? lol - Where the **** do you find this ****?
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Old May 18, 2006 | 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by dhahlen
You cheap bastard... you want to drive around with C16 at $10/g but you don't want to pay $30 a peice for new plugs...? Come on now.. haha.

Is that Zengief from street fighter flying around in the sig? lol - Where the **** do you find this ****?
I don't care who you are, $30 a plug is expensive. Yep, Zengief......... I've been instructed to take it down. I'll do that later today
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Old May 18, 2006 | 07:33 PM
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It has been suggested the blasting material damages the plug's ceramic insulator.
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Old May 19, 2006 | 10:22 AM
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^^^ What he said, but more importantly...... Make sure you inspect the plugs after blasting them CAREFULLY. Bits of blasting media can get logged or stick in between the insulator and the plug body. When it heats up they release, and guess were they go? You don't want these highly abbrasive bits getting into your engine. SO if you use one of these plug blasters, blow it out really good with compressed air then follow up with a solvent before installing them in your engine.

~Mike...............
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Old May 19, 2006 | 10:15 PM
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I've used one and it works well to buy you a little time. But it shouldn't be used as a fix.
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