spark plug threads stripped

walshoisin

recently, I started having problems with my lawnmower spark plug so I bought a new one. my lawnmower is 11 years old this year and the spark plug has never been changed. When I took out my old spark plug, the threads from the spark plug hole in the lawnmower came with it and now my new plug won't tighten. Don't really want to use it in case the plug would blow off. How do I fix this??

Kenny Logins

Helicoil or Time-sert.

walshoisin

I am a lawnmower mechanic and I see this in my shop the whole time. what happens is the plug bonds to the lawnmower threads over time and then when it needs to be changed, you have problems. change the plug once a year. if you want to fox the threads yourself get a helicoil thread repair kit or else go to your local lawnmower repair shop. it's an easy fix. but very common

Kenny Logins

walshoisin wrote: »

recently, I started having problems with my lawnmower spark plug so I bought a new one. my lawnmower is 11 years old this year and the spark plug has never been changed. When I took out my old spark plug, the threads from the spark plug hole in the lawnmower came with it and now my new plug won't tighten. Don't really want to use it in case the plug would blow off. How do I fix this??

walshoisin wrote: »

I am a lawnmower mechanic and I see this in my shop the whole time. what happens is the plug bonds to the lawnmower threads over time and then when it needs to be changed, you have problems. change the plug once a year. if you want to fox the threads yourself get a helicoil thread repair kit or else go to your local lawnmower repair shop. it's an easy fix. but very common

Were you meant to log out and back in on another account before replying to yourself?

enumbers

wtf????

gctest50

Renegade Mechanic

Busted:D

NuckingFacker

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Were you meant to log out and back in on another account before replying to yourself?

Ooops.:D

tonic wine

That's one of the weirdest things to do that I've come across in a long time
PMSL

dgt

Just like yer wan on fb who won a competition and thanked herself as the manager

Cee-Jay-Cee

Maybe he's bi-polar and doesn't realise it? He'll freak out when he sees his other reply.

K.Flyer

Laughed Out Loud
Total Shill Fail !!

congo_90

Wow

What a total fail.
Anyone got a tdi lawnmower?

Cee-Jay-Cee

This needs to be moved to AH for proper destruction of the OP.

johnayo

Jaysus, where did that come from. Could be a while before he posts again.:D

BigEejit

What a flipping plonker. How much business was he hoping to drum up??

TestTransmission

:pac: