My son’s Focus needed new spark plugs. As you can see in the picture, the job is about as easy as they come. Got the plugs and set a day to do the job.
One of you bloggers had a meme up, “A twenty minute job is one broken bolt away from a three day ordeal”. Struck a nerve.
The job was done in about thirty minutes by a young man who rents from my sister with just a minor hiccup or two. I gave him $20 for his troubles.
I just hope he put some kind of lube on the plug threads. Steel spark plugs screwed tightly into an aluminum head can be a gen-you-ine PITA to get loose if they were put in dry.
ReplyDeleteIf nothing, pull the dipstick out and put a drop of engine oil on them....
That works... :-) We're at the age where pay the man makes sense... And I'm too damn old and broken to crawl under the car to retrieve things...
ReplyDeleteWe used anti-seize. My son will probably move on this year. Focus has 180,000 miles.
ReplyDeleteOld NFO
ReplyDeleteAt the moment we don't have a spare vehicle. That will change.
It's been so long since I changed spark plugs...I don't think that I have a gap tool in my garage anymore. I'd have to look hard to find one. Maybe somewhere, under something.
ReplyDeleteThe way it goes. "I used to do this, but (knees, shoulders, ankles). I'll pay to get it done."
ReplyDeleteSimple is almost impossible these days, and you and I want to come out of it without aches and pains. A twenty bucks well spent.
ReplyDeleteLL
ReplyDeleteThey now come properly gaped out of the box.
SgtBob/CP
Had the young man not been available I would have done the job. $20 was worth it to me if only not seeing my new bruises for the two weeks it takes for them to fade.
HAH! I've got bruises all over my hands from flipping radios around on the bench!
ReplyDeleteI now have "Old Man's Hands" and I don't like it.
drjim
ReplyDeleteIt only gets worse as you age!