i was helping my sister out and i thought it was going to be easy so i just opened her hood and put 4 new spark plugs in the car. then i asked her to call autozone and ask them wut the gap was and if they were pregapped. the car ran fine but they said they need to be gapped at .50 for her car. so i opened it back up and took them out gaped them all at .50 and put them back in. the last one i was putting in ripped as i was screwing it in and the center piece with the spark end and the top came out. the thread stayed there and when i lifted the plug out the thread fell inside the motor.

i tryed to use a magnetic prob to grab it and pull it out but its bigger than the hold. the metal is bigger that is. then i tryed that little grabber with 4 hooks and that didnt work. then i tryed to get it with needle nose but its so far down there i cant reach. i pulled off the valve cover and i got the thread once with the plyers but i couldnt pull it out.

anybody have any ideas?


by the way it was a denzo spark plug

 

In auto parts stores, they should sell something like a magnetic extending rod (looks like a portable radio antenna with a magnet in the end). It's usually used to get hard-to-reach items that fall into some part of the engine bay. Shouldn't this be in one of the Civic sections? Anyways, hope this helps.

 

i tryed that but the piece of metal from the plug threads is bigger than the hole and the magnetic end will not help me pull it out

 

one of my friends said if i pull the headers off and stick the magnetic probe in the the exhaust manifold i could get it

is that true?

 

You could try to get it out from the exhaust manifold but that may be questionable on it's position. It's worth a try, if not it's time for a valve job and new headgasket and water and oil pump if the cars worth anything! Timing belt also!

 

sounds to me like it's sitting right inside the combustion chamber, in which case, you're looking at pulling the head.

 

yes its sitting in the cumbustion chamber but i dont want to pull the head

 

you may have too...

 

yea i think so too i tryed to get it out of the exhaust hole and its tiny theres no way

 

no way a spark plug fits thru an open exhaust valve

i concur that the head may have to be removed. Unless you get really creative.

~kris