Okay, easy dude, take it easy. Step one here is BREATHE. Take a couple slow, deep ones. Don't think about the problem right now, just let this frustration bleed out with your breath. Being flustered and frustrated will only make the job worse.
Step two, once you're calm again (Do something else for a little while if you have to), is take a light and have a good look at the threads of the two plugs you pulled out from the troubled side, and also see if you can take a gander at the threads in the head. Odds are, with 30k miles you might have a little carbon buildup in the threads, which will make threading in fresh spark plugs a royal PITA. If your threads look all crunchy dirty, stop. Take one of your fresh plugs and another vehicle down to a FLAPS (Friendly Local Auto Parts Store, for anyone who doesn't know that acronym) and ask them for a thread chaser to match your plug. Should be pretty cheap, under $10 for a double-ended tool. When you get back, put the thread chaser into a socket sized to take it and steadily work it in and out of your two errant spark plug holes. Thread it in a little, thread it out a little. In, out, in, all the way out and clean the crap out of the flutes. Then do it again, until you can smoothly thread the chaser down each of your two holes. The chaser will do two things. One, it will cut up any carbon build up that's giving you a bad thread for your plugs, and it will also lightly "cut" the aluminum heads to clean up any burred thread edges. DON'T use a wrench while you're chasing, just your hands. Squirt a little PB, Kroil or other cleaner/lube of choice on the chaser if you're having issues cutting through the crud. All of this works much better if you pop the tank off the bike. One bolt up under the seat at the back of the tank, plus the vacuum and fuel line from the petcock to disconnect. Swing the back end up then slide the whole tank backwards, and you're off. Biggest thing is to take it easy, take it slow, and take it methodically. -Kurt On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:50 PM, gene hawkes <[email protected]> wrote: > ok evryone not sure if this has happened to anybody before but here goes i > have a 2000 nighthawk 750 love this bike ive had it since 2006 it had 12300 > miles when i bought it it now has 30000 on it so heres my BIG DELEMA i > decided to buy sparkplugs and put them in not really knowing what i was > getting intro i thought that its only 4 pugs so cant be all that bad damm > was i wrong i tried for 2 hrs to replace the four plugs i got the right > side of the bike replaced meaning if your sitting o the bike and looking > down the plugs o the right side have been replaced ok when i went to > replace the left side plugs well i took the old ones out then i tried to > put the new plugs in but for some rerason they would not screw in correctly > i was very gentl as to not to strip the threads but again i could not for > the life of me get that damm plug into the hole it would only screw in a > short distance then it would stop but i could not make it go further not > only one plug but both plugs holes did the same damm thing CAN ANYONE GIVE > ME SOME HELP HERE I VERY UPSET WITH MYSELF cause this is suppose to be an > easy project but im fearing something bad here can anyone help me with > this thanks all rersponses would be greatly accepted gene 2074503789 > call anytime > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
