really dumb question re spark plugs

ringoschariot Officially Full-On Dubber

282 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 16 Apr 2005, 3:27 pm

#338001

Iam new to VW engines
This is so dumb but is there a special spark spanner for beetle engines? I cannot get to mine due to the extension bar not giving enough room to turn them and the two plugs nearest me as i look at the engine are so hard to get to it seems impossible they can ever be removed without taking the engine out?

Brad Wolfsburg Elder

3,764 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 16 Apr 2005, 3:45 pm

#338008

there are some geramn ones that work well or just buy a cheap ass tube spanner and use that.

Brad
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vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 16 Apr 2005, 4:32 pm

#338020

If u can find the origional tube socket spanner that came with the car ... they work really well.

The other trick is to crack them all then get a big of rubber tube n push over the end off the plug n undo it out ...... n replace the same way ....................

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battybat Seriously Crusin Dubber

127 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 19 Apr 2005, 5:20 pm

#340100

got mine out with a cheap flexible head ratchet - one of the ones with the joint just below the ratchet head

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dusto81 Officially Full-On Dubber

229 posts · joined Feb 2005 · 19 Apr 2005, 8:04 pm

#340267

Magnetic ones are good, cus it's a pain in the ass to drop a spark plug down onto the cylinders!

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2,499 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 20 Apr 2005, 9:23 am

#340549

or if you have twin carbs cut a hole in the inner guards..............

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