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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => Fazer 1000/FZ1 corner => Topic started by: jabbascot on 19 September 2012, 08:50:29 pm

Title: spark plug removal
Post by: jabbascot on 19 September 2012, 08:50:29 pm

this may sound stupid but i cant get my spark plug spanner in to change plug is there a special tool ?

Title: Re: spark plug removal
Post by: dickturpin on 19 September 2012, 08:52:07 pm

Should be one with a swivel in the toolkit...but they sometimes go awol!

Title: Re: spark plug removal
Post by: tomlinscote on 19 September 2012, 09:10:10 pm

+1 for the yamaha tool kit one, it really is the easiest way that I found of getting the little sods out and more importantly back in again!
 
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Title: Re: spark plug removal
Post by: phil on a fazer on 20 September 2012, 08:53:49 am

make sure it has the rubber bit in it (it grips the plug). The one is my toolkit didnt have it so was crap.

Title: Re: spark plug removal
Post by: JayB on 20 September 2012, 09:46:46 am

Toolkit, sigh..... if only!
 
Some dick lost all the docs and handbook etc for mine, owner before the one I bought it from. Luckily, the local bike shop know it and sold it twice so had some info for me.
 
Good luck with the plugs.

Title: Re: spark plug removal
Post by: John Silva on 20 September 2012, 09:47:56 am

+1 for the yamaha tool kit spark plug socket as it seems like the only one that does the job perfectly.

Title: Re: spark plug removal
Post by: Phil TK on 20 September 2012, 04:01:21 pm

I never had the tool that came with the bike so I use a long 1/4'' drive socket and extension, I stuff a rubber washer up the socket so I can pull out the old plugs once they are unscrewed. I'm careful to remove the washer before screwing in the new plugs though, otherwise the socket stays with the plug and pulls off its extension and thus gets marooned in the plug hole.

Title: Re: spark plug removal
Post by: jabbascot on 20 September 2012, 04:57:56 pm

cheers guys need to see if i can get a tool kit spanner from somewhere

Title: Re: spark plug removal
Post by: CRH on 20 September 2012, 06:49:05 pm

Quote from: jabbascot on 20 September 2012, 04:57:56 pm

cheers guys need to see if i can get a tool kit spanner from somewhere

...chk out ebay mate!!...under FAZER 600...was one on there cheap?..complete tool kit!!!

Title: Re: spark plug removal
Post by: jabbascot on 22 September 2012, 02:09:22 pm

hi cant seem to find 1 anywhere dont suppose any 1 has a spare to sell

Title: Re: spark plug removal
Post by: hotmetal on 22 September 2012, 06:21:01 pm

Some ham-fisted muppet had used my toolkit plug spanner to try to undo the front wheel (I assume) and it's knacked. However I managed to use a socket with a long bar and a swivel joint on it, plus one of those bendy grabber thingies. Replaced all 4 plugs without an issue. See pics: 
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(http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/87a3625d1bfc0e1e3859ab3b7fafc76c6648dc33.jpg)



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(http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/f71360af187e03fd3527a0b9794cc90e86443425.jpg)

Title: Re: spark plug removal
Post by: jabbascot on 22 September 2012, 11:35:27 pm

cheers managed to brrow a spanner