A terrifying chain of misfortune occurred
At a point where I wanted to give up and run away…
I helped dispose of some beat-up SV400
and Pokidam’s workplace senior wanted to buy it
Yesterday at the shop Pokidam took apart the carburetor
and made it home safely on the trailer
Today he’s off too, apparently…
Since it’s not starting well, maybe I’ll change the spark plug~ “Snap!”
and the spark plug broke!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even if he calls me about it, I’m stuck
I can’t ignore it, so I ride my bike from Ibaraki to Tokyo, ride the van back to Ibaraki
Then load it up again and head to Tokyo in the van…
A spark plug breaking
I’ve been doing this job since I was 18, but I’ve never seen it happen
Well then
It’s broken clean off…
Since we can’t tell what’s going on, first I cut off a junk spark plug to assess the situation…
The insulator and electrode came off with a light tap
Then we pulled it out with a vacuum!
Going smoothly~
I’ll seal the hole with some hard grease ★
An extractor to remove the broken bolt ★
This one’s a breeze ★ It’s tapered and you tap it in and twist it out
In the end I made one by modifying a C-plug one to fit perfectly
And a tap I bought from Snap-on that I’d never used before, inserted into the BOX and used with a ratchet—its debut
Since you have to be prepared for it to break, our mediator Pokidam gave it full power! !!
I didn’t want to take responsibility so I only went partway
The culprit is this guy ↑ K-ta, now known as Pokidam
But he got it out well!!
I was already looking at the SV manual…
Fantastic ★
But even in this state it’s still a loss…
Thanks for the hard work!
