Hey 16vers, Yesterday I spent some time on my 16V's never ending journey to revival. With the help of a new local friend (who has four 16V Scirrocos) we reinstalled the restored main fuel pump and McGuyvered transfer pump. Two nights ago I removed the spark plugs and poured a cap full of new engine oil down the plug holes so the engine would not restart dry when we finally tried to start it. Unfortunately yesterday when finally reinstalling the spark plugs, the rubber boot for the spark plug removal socket stayed on the plug and after 30 minutes of trying to remove it - we were defeated.
So close yet so far, we were at the final two steps before trying to start the engine: reinstall spark plugs and add fresh gasoline... Clearly the Craftman 5/8" (Part #43324) spark plug removal tool is not of high quality. I have snap-on 11/16" spark plug removal tool (S9727K) which seems of higher quality. I will be ordering a snapon 5/8" spark plug tool and throwing my two other 5/8" plug sockets in the trash. So now my question - any ideas on how to get the rubber piece out? The spark plug tool won't grab the plug to screw it out and won't hold onto the rubber to pull it out. I am thinking glue might work but I am also afraid of getting the socket stuck down there - any tricks to get the socket to stick to the extension? Does anyone have an extension welded onto the socket to avoid the socket getting stuck down there? Any ideas would be welcome. Pictures of incident: https://goo.gl/photos/AqU6SiPWRHewd3Np9 Thanks, Larry 91 GTI 16V [cid:image001.jpg@01D248A0.1C636950] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MK2-16v" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mk2-16v@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/BY2PR04MB1990675EC0C7BB763ADF3D3FC08B0%40BY2PR04MB1990.namprd04.prod.outlook.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
