hacker-pschorr

I'm ordering a magnetic swivel pickup spark plug socket, and I'm having a brain fart.

Is the "standard" 928 plug a 5/8" socket?

Mrmerlin

13/16 thin wall, with a rubber insert to capture the plug tip

the flyin' scotsman

Nope..........5/8" is for smaller plugs.

928 plugs are 13/16", manly spark plugs.

stereo Stan

hacker-pschorr

See, brain fart. My Audi is 5/8....

That's what the magnet is for

Mrmerlin

well if the tool has a rubber insert it prevents having to drop the plug into the well and possibly damaging the threads of the head or tapping the electrode.

OTOH you can use a piece of tubing inserted onto the end of the spark plug to get it started.

BUT if your buying a good tool the rubber insert will usually be in the tool end

Sailmed

+ a bunch - That used to be the only way to get the 911/930 plugs out too - Works great on the 928 also!
I have one stuck in the base of the socket.

hacker-pschorr

The magnet does the same thing as the rubber insert. The top of a spark plug is metal, which the magnet hangs onto.

Sailmed

Not to mention you don't have to fight with your socket when it comes loose from the extension and gets stuck on the spark plug.

Mrmerlin

Roger the stuck socket!!

blitz928

I'd like to know as well, if there's a particular brand of this tool to look for, since I just changed my plugs with the plug wrench in our tool kit, which works but is too short. the slide handle just seems to be in the wrong spot, for about every plug, when you 're trying to get them loose or to tighten.

blown 87

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item....re&dir=catalog

Imo000

I ground down the wall of a regular socket. Was too lazy to go buy one, it works, but it ain't perdy.

the flyin' scotsman

I use a Craftsman spark plug socket, 13/16, with the rubber insert to cushion the plug head.

For the 928 I attach a Snap-On 6" wobbly extension..........the set up works for all 8 plugs.

hacker-pschorr

This is what I'm buying:

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1...0070921x00003c

blown 87

I have got the whole snap on line up of those, big ones and little ones, from short to really really long and they have not been used in maybe ten years.

(I used to own a V8 Monza and you have not lived until you do plugs on one of them)

How about I ship you one to let you make your own mind up.
One of the few tools from Snap-On I am not really nuts about.