Spark plug removal

[ryans85]

Hi guys,
I'm just doing my first self service on the 1150gs and have realised that i dont have the spark plug boot remover tool thingy in my toolkit, i have tried just pulling it out but it's not having any of it. Any ideas how i can remove the boots without the tool? I just dont want to go jamming things in there and breaking anything.
Thanks.

 

[Bubb]

2 X flat blade screwdrivers....1 on either side... lever upwards gently, and the stick coil comes out.


Bubb

 

[Fanum]

If you can't get the 'spark plug boot' off without the shitty plastic tool that nobody ever uses more than once anyway, I think that maybe you ought to step away from the bike and ask a grown up to do the servicing for you

 

[davegs]

If you can't get the 'spark plug boot' off without the shitty plastic tool that nobody ever uses more than once anyway, I think that maybe you ought to step away from the bike and ask a grown up to do the servicing for you

OOH bitchy, wrong time of the month?

 

[davegs]

Hi guys,
I'm just doing my first self service on the 1150gs and have realised that i dont have the spark plug boot remover tool thingy in my toolkit, i have tried just pulling it out but it's not having any of it. Any ideas how i can remove the boots without the tool? I just dont want to go jamming things in there and breaking anything.
Thanks.

Screwdrivers will do it just get a proper bit from the stealer makes life easier,
but does not do fingers much good!.

 

[ELIMINATOR]

bit of card / paper as well, to stop the screwdriver blades marking the rocker box covers.

 

[MarkShelley]

OOH bitchy, wrong time of the month?

Precisely. Clearly the man is a spannering God.

 

[ryans85]

Thanks for the help guys. I was actually thinking along those lines but I wasn't sure whether it would damage the coil at all. Managed to change the spark plugs okay but broke my tank doing the fuel filter change. Maybe you were right Fanum.

 

[STUBBS]

mmm the dark art of the fuel filter

 

[STUBBS]

mmm the dark art of the fuel filter

 

[ryans85]

Yeah I managed somehow to cross thread one of the studs when i was reattaching the pump and now the nut just spins and wont come off.
I'm sure theres a pretty simple way to fix it, but i was too pissed off yesterday to try very much.

 

[davegs]

Yeah I managed somehow to cross thread one of the studs when i was reattaching the pump and now the nut just spins and wont come off.
I'm sure theres a pretty simple way to fix it, but i was too pissed off yesterday to try very much.

Don't worry about it it probably won't make any difference, do a search.

 

[ryans85]

I thought that, and it seems that in most cases it doesn't matter, however when i started the engine fuel just came pouring out.

 

[Ian J Hartley]

I take it that you have tried putting a thin flat blade under the nut and apply gentle but firm pressure, whilst trying to unscrew it?

Not too much pressure, as your likely to break the stud off.

 

[Dragon Master]

I thought that, and it seems that in most cases it doesn't matter, however when i started the engine fuel just came pouring out.

Out of where? Fuel pouring out when you start the engine sounds more like one of the fuel pipes loose on the plate, the pressure is in the system, not the tank. If it was the damaged stud causing problems the fuel would come out any time.*

I snapped a stud off the tank on my old 1100. Just made sure I soaked the 'O' ring in warm water for about 20 mins (re-shapes it), made sure plate was sitting square when I replaced it, and tightened the remaining studs carefully in 'opposing' manner; 12-6, 9-3 etc. never had fuel leak.


*I do stand to be corrected here...

 

[Steptoe]

I thought that, and it seems that in most cases it doesn't matter, however when i started the engine fuel just came pouring out.

Fanum may have a point.........