How To Clean Spark Plugs (Andy’s Garage: Episode - 63)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Andy Phillips shows how to effectively clean and restore spark plugs, using common household products!
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Now I see why auto parts stores have a soda section😅😅😅
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@@PhillipsVision I actually did a prank call with Autozone on this right after I made my comment🤣🤣🤣
@@lucianocasanova8924 nice...lol
always! lol
Looks pretty good!
Goes to auto-parts store.
Clerk: "What can I help you wit"
Andy: "One spark plug please." 😅
That's good, vinegar will work too, hotter the better and at least over night. It's most important to get the carbon off the inside insulator. Carbon is conductive and fouls the plug. After soaking, brush the insulator with comet and a tooth brush to clean off the carbon. Rinse with hot water, and repeat comet scrubbing until center insulator looks as white as possible, light tan color is okay, black color is bad.
Can u mix comet & vinegar?
An drink the Coke or put it in the rad?
He did nice job right to the point
i will give it a go with my 1991 Gto 3000 twin turbo
If soda does this to a spark plug imagine what it’s doing to your body 😂💯
Yes, especially if you have a great deal of carbon buildup and rust.
I have zero carbon buildup after drinking one soda a day/.
@@MCOult my thoughts exactly. We're not spark plugs so the chemical reaction won't be the same.
Chocolate can kill dogs but humans can eat it just fine. It's chemistry, people.
Well considering how acidic stomach acid is, it will probably slow down your digestion process but thats about it
Thank you for sharing.
did you put them back in your car??
Ive always hit them with a torch for about 30 seconds to a minute best way to see if the core and the insolator has separated gas gets trapped between them and burns off. Works better at getting all the carbon built up on the ceramic and down in the plug than just a wire brush and soaking them
Will a brass brush work as well? Great video, very informative.
It should but make sure you remove all the build up. In some cases the plugs are just too worn down and need to be replaced.
Can you use-goof off Overspray remover as well
That’s awesome thank
You!!!
Great Content Thank you for your work and sharing
Great and how do you dry the spark plugs?
I just let them air dry or you can use a hair dryer
Thanks for your showing
Dawer Awer you’re welcome 👍
During the cleaning time, what did you do to prevent anything falling into the spark plug holes? I would be worried leaving them open overnight. I’m probably overreacting.
@@domenicsandri2740 I placed spare spark plugs in the holes to seal them. You can also put some rags in them as well
@@PhillipsVision, thanks. Good idea. I should have thought of that. Also putting the coils back in solves the problem too.
The brush looks like it is stainless steel 2:50 ?? Would using Coke Cola in a ultrasound make the process go faster ??? Nice video Sir too. v
Does brake cleaner work also? I need to get mines done
Could you tell me the name of the powder you added?
@@ThutaAung-mt3hk baking soda and salt
How much longer did you use them after cleaning them before replacing them? Great video presentation
CHARLES BONGAY thx. They are still good. They are a replacement set so were not used full time, but they are still in great condition
I have been watching videos on how to clean spark plugs, showing how to clean the spark plugs. None so far show the spark plugs cleaned working in equipment working after cleaning, WHY? I am a woman, having difficulty starting pressure washer, might be spark plug , but it looks clean. new to fixing tools just learning.@@PhillipsVision
How well did it clean inside the end of the plug? Near the ceramic insulator?
What is the proper way to remove oil from the spark plug well? My valve
gasket was broken and some oil accumulated in the wells. In one film
they said you can't remove those spark plugs since the oil will go
somewhere where it is not supposed to be.
I'd use a long screwdriver with tissue roll paper work my way round before you remove the plug n soak all that gunk up.
@@Curi0u50ne Thank you, I used already fluid extractor, but thank you for your replay, it is also very good tip.
get some clean rags, an a long thin screwdriver, fold the rag a few times over so your not gettin any bits of cloth from the edge stuck int here as well try get it out...
ive had both water an oil in there bro you just do what you can do while stress veins are pumping... keep in mind the more thorough you are, the less chances you have of anything falling into the cylinders. good luck
@@brendanj1124 Thank you, I pumped out some and wiped out the rest as you recommended. Someone wrote me that if some oil gets there not that big deal, since it will be burned, and you 'll just see some smoke initially, then it will disappears. But I wiped out everything to be on the safe side. Everything works just fine. Thank you again.
I cleaned mine with oven cleaner. Never thought about using cola.
Do you drink the res of the coke? Bro?
Great video 👍
Thx
Wow, incredible!!!
The old phosphoric acid bath.
When we clean spark plug using sand paper, will the remains of the sand on the spark plug affect the engine any way like damaging internal parts?
Seems a waste to soak for hours when you still have to spend an hour wire brushing them.
Active ingredient in Coca Cola is phosphoric acid. Any mild acid solution would probably work. Vinegar is acetic acid, for example.
Salt water is notorious as a corrosive agent, hence adding salt to the mixture. At a microscopic level the salt probably causes some surface pitting, but at that scale it likely doesn't really matter.
Anyway, I have some spark plugs to clean so I'll take what I learned here and try to apply it with what I have on hand. Thanks Andy!
People drink something that works like cleaner fluid.... Think about what it does to the body..... Hmmmmm
Very true. That’s why I normally don’t consume that stuff
how about an ultrasonic cleaner?
How to get inside it though?
Would carborator cleaner work?
Will 7up work just as well ?
Coke only CC has dissolving properties, 7 up juss sweet n sticky.
Can i do the same for iridium plugs?
Should work on any that have build up as long as the plugs are not damaged
This is insane
Tns for the information idol,,#HALOGEMS TV
Don't understand the salt part. Should do a comparison to coke alone.
Puts plugs in coke and proceeds to drink what he's using to remove corrosion
Brakleen or Brake cleaner is probably better.
I not convinced that the gap area was cleaned well.
Can one use thinners?!
Yes, but make sure you rinse and dry them thoroughly
Do you put them back on your car ..n if u do is there gonna be problem
And they work like or almost like new afterwards?
Reginald Brown yep, no problems. I’m going to be doing a follow up vid soon showing their performance afterwards👍
@@PhillipsVision hurry up i need to see that!
Can you use Pepsi?
😂
Love this comment ❤ pepsi is my way way of life!! It gives me life anyway lol
Anything that has phosphoric acid as an ingredient.
You don't like Wokeacola?
will pepsi do?or does it have to be Coke lol
Pepsi works for the cheap spark plugs 😃
انت صفيتة من خارج الشمعة اهم شئ من الداخل
Does it has to be Regular Coke? The other flavors are just as nasty!
Can pepsi work
If coke does pepsi should as well.
Where on Earth did you get Coke in a 16 oz can?
that's just standard in Europe, idk where you live
right!!!!!??? i swear all i kept think was great video and all, but i needs to know where you got that 16oz coke from
Dollar tree all day long
Just give them to Mr. Conehead,
And that's one of the reasons why I don't drink this SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have other techniques. DM me.
AND YOU DRANK THAT COKE?
PinkLady Bikermamma lol
I will definitely try this....