Im a home diyer mechanic. Very much put off doing glow plugs having seen the head aches people go through. The kit looks great in practise. Good how it showed a cut head to reveal how the kit actually works. In practise it will be a lot harder. I see comments below that seem to think its not as easy as it appears.
I ended up knocking it into the cylinder chamber and then got some rubber hoses and sucked it out with a vacuum cleaner. Total cost for hoses five dollars
Nifty, but the glow plug tip shown is large. will you be able to drill out and tap a small tip (like one on an AC DELCO 9G gow plug) or does this kit have a punch for that size?
If thread comes out don’t worry about it and don’t do anything just keep driving and make sure you have new glow plug on you it will shoot out but always keep something on top otherwise it will damage your bonnet it’s happened to one of my Mercedes bonnet got dented but if thread breaks half then you will have to get thread cut
Hello, thanks for your input. However I doubt this is a very professional way to deal with this issue. Sometimes the tip of the glowplug is so frozen it won’t come out just with the heat and compression of the engine, neither.
Hi Kevin, it depends where you live really. The best thing to do is : you send us an e-mail to info@hubitools.com with your location and the products you're interested in and we will get back to you asap.
Hello @@sousamecatronica, There's a puching shaft included in the kit. You basically push the tip in the combustion chamber. Then remove the injector and use the included magnet to try&retreive the broken tip. In the rare case the tip isn't magnetic, there're no other way than removing the engine's head.
Tried to change glow plugs on an astra h 1.9cdti and they all came loose easily but for some reason they wouldnt come out was a good cm above the thread and they move but just would not pull out? cant be snapped as the other end would be left in the engine surely
Hello Si, If you have been able to unscrew the glow plug and start to remove it, but cannot remove it completely, there are two possibilities: • the pencil is flared • There is carbon residue on the pencil. In both cases the pencil of the glow plug is too big to come out of the cylinder head. Either you break the glowplug and get the pencil back with the magnet which is in our kit HU41050.(not OK for Ceramic) Either you use an extractor type BGS 65601 which we do not have in our range Hope this will help you 😊
Great tool. Been able move one but didn’t pull it completely it came off itself a week after. For second one I’ve ordered different tap and pull it. Defennetly worth to try. Pull cylinder head x10 times more expensive. Good luck to everyone.
Thanks Charles ! You can remove the metal shavings before the last step of extraction thanks to the magnet included in the kit. And you do not need to worry about this iron dust leaching into the cylinder head as the holders of the drill and tap bits feature a kind of shoulder that prevents any risk of drilling or tapping too far.
That's assuming you haven't had to drill into the cylinder block: sometimes you have to. But you can use compressed air to blow out debris back thru the glow plug hole.
As the tip of the glow plug is still in the cylinder head, it will act as a plug. Therefore no metal shaving from the drilling and tapping could get into the engine. Thanks to the shouldering featured on our drill and tap, it's impossible to drill the tip through. Also we added a 3mm flexible magnet that we will allow the technician to clean all the debris before he pulls the tip out.
Went to the website and no prices are listed. I am sure someone from this company will tell me how eeeeeeeeeeeeeeasy it is to find the list price or to send and email.
Hello Herbet, You mean windshield side? As mini or peugeot? if yes have a look on the link below where we show the job on glowplug on windshield side ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2lcQj5urPgg.html
Thank you for your question. There’s a thin magnet in the kit. After drilling/tapping, you can use that magnet to extract what’s magnetic. Swarfs from the tip that aren’t magnetic can be blown as well. However it’s a soft material, If a small amount of it falls into the combustion chamber, It won’t damage anything. This video’s a pitch, not a user’s manual.
Indeed, Curtis, a few engines have non-magnetic tips. In this case, trying to retrieve it with a videoscope equipped with a hook could be a way. Otherwise, removing the head.
