I left my dad to finish changing my spark plugs today since i had to leave for work. When i came home, he tells me that he somehow broke off the tip of a plug and part of it is still in the engine (the threaded section). Can anybody help me out here? Is there anyway to remove it without having to disassemble the cylinder head, or taking it to a mechanic (who will no doubt charge me a fat bill)? And this may be a stupid question, but can the engine run safely without the one plug? Any help is very appreciated guys.

 

The engine cannot run properly without one plug.

 

http://forums.nicoclub.com/removing-...g-t290248.html

This should help, suggested an easy-out or a flathead screwdriver.

 

I'm confused. Did he just break off the end of the insulator? I can't imagine how the hex nut would separate from the body. That would be ugly. Have you looked at it, yet?

 

Place that cylinder @ BDC and extract it with a magnet or fingergrabber tools and some patience...

 

Yes the end of the insulator broke off

 

Wow! At least nothing fell into the cylinder. Maybe a large size easy-out would work. Coat the easy-out with grease in case it makes a metal chip.

 

I won't risk drilling cause you don't want any little metals going into your cylinder. I've had a similar problem when I changed the spark plugs. I took it to a mechanic and charged me 60 dollars to remove the broken part.

 

 

wow wtf??? how is that even possible???

note to self: always use anti-seize on my spark plugs before replacing

 

Another reason to not wait the 100k to change out your plugs.

 

I wonder if you can just super-glue that into the part that is still in the engine and call it the day.

 

Shirley, your not serious!

 

sig worthy!

 

It would work just fine until you start the car.

 

PB blaster and a greasy fat easy-out!!!! Use a star socket that fits the square or the EASY-OUT, a long extension, and longhandled rachet & carefully remove!!!! The sparkplug threaded portion may need to be hit with a drift and hammer first to unfreeze it first then grese up your EASY-OUT bit and get busy....BE Patience and don't do anything stupid...Antiseize will be your best friend from now on and a torque wrench.....the torque should be adequate around 13-16 ft lbs.....

 

Ok sorry i havent updated in a few days, been quite busy. I would have just used an easy-out first but a piece of the insulator was still sitting in there (and wouldnt come out) and i didnt feel like drilling into that and getting it into the cylinder. Nelsito65's idea actually came to my mind so i ran to the store, grabbed some epoxy and tried my best to get the spark plug to fit in where it originally was and hope the epoxy would make a strong enough bond so i could take out the threaded section. What ended up happening was that it bonded to the rest of the porcelin/ceramic insulator and pulled it out. So i proceeded to use an easy-out to remove the threaded section, and at first it wasnt budging. Then, with a big pop i finally loosened it up and removed it from the engine. The easy-out was no picnic though, i had to ghetto-rig it up to some socket extensions and then use an adjustable wrench to turn it. But after all that i finally removed the rest of the plug from the engine. My dad and i used a magnet to remove a couple of small metal shavings produced by the easy-out. I screwed in the new plug and reconnected the coil, etc and she was up and running again. So relieved. Thank you for all the input guys its nice the see the community is so willing to help.

 

coulda been ugly. glad that worked out for you.

 

Is that an NGK OEM plug?