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Old September 27th 05, 03:35 AM
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On 25 Sep 2005 19:26:01 -0700, "nrp" wrote:

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One minor additional thing - Occasionally also clean the sparkplug
helicoil threads in the cylinder. Somewhere (a surplus tore as I
recall) I found some small wire brushes about 3/8 inch dia that could
be chucked into an electric drill and slowly rotated in the threaded
hole to clean the crud out of the threads.


Champion useta sell a thread chaser for this purpose. Looked a lot
like a spark plug, had cut-outs in the threads to catch the crud. SOP
was stick a finger full of grease into the cut-outs to help it
"stick".

TC



I don't see why you couldn't make a chaser out of an old plug, using a
Moto Tool to cut the tapping slots.