TBrad
New Member
What makes me nervous about this tool is the picture in their blog thread of the extracted ground shield. Their tool first pushes the remaining porcelain further into the ground shield to expose an internal bore for the left hand extraction thread to grip onto.
The first picture is what the original intact plugs look like - notice the intact ground strap electrode.
The second picture is an extracted plug. The caption says that the electrode is broken, but it looks like a piece of the electrode and ground shield are actually missing. Did those fall into the cyclinder? If they did, I can't think that's a good thing.
Their blog:
http://http://www.denlorstools.com/autoblog/2008/11/ford-spark-plug-removal-tool-picture-of-fords-bad-design/
Quote:
"dennisb - Auto Tool Sales :
There has been no reports of this, but it is a good recommendation to take a look at the plug’s electrode when it’s removed to see. It would be fairly easy to see if a piece is missing as long as you know to look."
I never look at my old plugs. I just chuck em'.