"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
04/25/2017 at 18:12 • Filed to: Knowledge
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"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
04/25/2017 at 18:12 • Filed to: Knowledge | 7
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Coin-style spark plug gap tools are CRAP!! Feeler gauges are bestest!!
I never knew how easy and accurate these were to use until last night while fiddling with some spare plugs. Everyone must have one of these!!
That’s all.
Urambo Tauro
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
04/25/2017 at 18:24 |
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Haha, yes! Those things suck. Know what’s even better for spark plugs than flat feeler gauges, though? The wire-type ones.
Die-Trying
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
04/25/2017 at 18:26 |
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the nice thing about the coin ones, is that there is no fiddling with any other sizes or moving parts. you just start the plug in a shallow size, and wedge it around to where you need it to be at, gap wise. but nothing replaces a good set of feelers when running valves.......
barnie
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
04/25/2017 at 18:41 |
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Sniff. It just crackles this old, crystalline heart to see you young bucks larnin’. Coin gappers suck. Get a real stainless or hardened set of feeler gauges and keep ‘em close. A tenth or 2 off and yer mileage will vary. Can’t get that close with coins.
Used to carry a cut down 35 on my keychain for the plugs in my ‘56 Chevy cause we changed the plugs and points so often. And it looked cool.
just-a-scratch
> Urambo Tauro
04/25/2017 at 20:30 |
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...but you can’t stack the wire gauges on each other to get a different size, like you can with flat ones.
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Urambo Tauro
> just-a-scratch
04/25/2017 at 20:36 |
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Good point.
I did take some searching before I finally found a tool with the 0.54 feeler that my car’s spark plugs call for.