Thread: #8 spark plug removal

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I might just have to drop the header. I took one of the old plugs, one of the seven that I could get out, and took it to the parts store. They couldn't match anything up. When I look up plugs at Summit for my heads, all they show is plugs with a 13/16" hex.

I didn't think you'd find one, but WHO knows

Originally Posted by DennyW

Some times, you have to make your own specialty tool for the job. Crow foot, heat and bend a wrench, cut and weld a wrench. Turn a socket on the lathe. Those type of things. I have several sockets, and wrenches I have made for those special occasions. Even a nice one for Corvette 4 speed linkage.

Was thinking that also. Some type of wrench might do, but it's so tight with the AC stuff sticking out of the firewall, that I still might have a hard time getting it to work.

I couldn't get the #8 plug out of my Camaro so I gave up for the time being (anyone who has changed the plugs on an LT1 4th gen F body knows the hell you go through)

Lucky for me I wrecked the car before I got to get back to changing it but now it shouldn't be too hard to change it before it goes in the '35

good luck

Don't feel so bad. I am building my own and still managed to design it so I have to pull the steering back to change #7.

Actually now I don't feel so bad, except for the engineering degrees backing me up!

Kitz