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12-25-2020, 04:35 PM | #1 |
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Spark plug socket
Can't seem to find a 15/16" spark pug socket for 3/3" drive. Any ideas?
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12-25-2020, 04:45 PM | #2 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
That was supposed to be 3/8" drive.
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12-25-2020, 05:00 PM | #3 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
I don’t recall... Is the spark plug a 13/16” instead of 15/16”?
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12-25-2020, 05:27 PM | #4 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
Maybe just use the spark plug wrench Ford provided, they do work.
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12-25-2020, 05:28 PM | #5 |
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I use a 15/16" deep socket, ⅜" drive similar to these. https://www.ebay.com/itm/A-CRAFTSMAN...AAAOSwzsNcfqD3
Or use a ⅜" to ½" adapter on a ½" drive socket.
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12-25-2020, 06:04 PM | #7 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
I prefer a 15/16 ring spanner (or 24 mm). Less chance of it slipping sideways and cracking the insulation. Just be careful to not over tighten.
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12-25-2020, 06:17 PM | #8 |
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Is a ring spanner the same as a box end wrench?
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12-25-2020, 08:51 PM | #9 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
I use an adjustable wrench on my 3X plugs. One time, it slipped off and hit the adjacent plug, cracking it. I still use the adjustable wrench, but am very careful. At that time, 3X’s were about $25 apiece.
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12-26-2020, 08:21 AM | #10 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
Box wrench just to crack loose and snug up. A little never-seize lets them spin right out and back in.
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12-26-2020, 09:34 AM | #11 |
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The first time I heard the term "spanner" was in a NATO motor pool 50+ years ago. The bloke was holding one in his hand, so I caught on right away what he meant. I suspect "wrench" was just as alien to his ear. -- And a "box" has square corners.
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12-26-2020, 10:00 AM | #12 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
Don't some Model A spark plugs tank a different size wrench?
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12-26-2020, 10:40 AM | #13 |
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Re: Spark plug socket
yes they sell reducers so you can use modern plugs and some older plugs that are subtitutes foe 3x are a smaller size.
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12-26-2020, 12:05 PM | #14 |
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Yes but he specifically asked about a 15/16" socket, which fits the W-16Y and W-18 Champion. I believe the 3X uses a 1⅛" socket. I don't have one handy to measure.
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12-26-2020, 02:19 PM | #15 |
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NAPA, AutoZone , etc should have one. Use a 3/8;s extension.
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12-26-2020, 03:15 PM | #16 |
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After I got home, I found I’m using g a Tekton 15/16” spark plug socket. It looks like Home Depot carries them.
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12-26-2020, 04:27 PM | #17 |
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Yes, that is a ring spanner. In English, a wrench is defined as a sudden violent twist or pull. It can be used in a sentence this way: "with a wrench Tony wriggled free"
So, a wrench is the action applied to a spanner, not the spanner itself. It seems to me that this is just one more example of how you guys "developed" your own language when Webster dumbed down the language.
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When I look it up, this is what I find:
Wench. A 13th-century word meaning a female infant or a young unmarried woman quickly acquired negative connotations: from the late 14th century, in Langland and Chaucer it is used to mean “a wanton woman; a mistress”.
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12-26-2020, 06:15 PM | #19 |
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Haha, Good one Carl.
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That is probably a reasonable description of our Model As but not what I meant. Obviously, I made a typo by missing the "r". Oooops!
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12-26-2020, 09:28 PM | #21 |
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Further to "box wrench" we call hexagonal tube wrenches "box spanners", or some times "tube spanners" because they are made from formed seamless tubing. But tube spanners can also be those open ended spanners used on brake lines etc. So "box spanner" is preferred and quite different from "box wrench"
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12-27-2020, 09:49 AM | #22 |
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Open end spanners are flare wrenches.
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I enjoy twisting a wench.
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12-27-2020, 10:06 AM | #24 |
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Open or box end , depending on whether the wrench is open or box- closed ended .
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12-27-2020, 03:36 PM | #25 |
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It is becoming clear to me that terminology varies very much from place to place. How do all these variations start?
Spanner comes from the German language (Spannen) and dates from the 1700s. Wrench???
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12-28-2020, 02:02 PM | #27 |
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No worries mate ! It's about having fun !
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To Y Blockhead ....
That’s a nice set of spanner’s you have there.... |
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We call an attractive girl a spanner - because the sight of her tightens our nuts (but never in her presence!)
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