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Someone's feathers got ruffled. Can't take good jokes or can't handle people's opinions? Which is it?

I use carb cleaner and an old toothbrush. Any small engine that has 2 cycle mix always ends up like that after a while. It happens to my snowblower and chainsaw all the time. That torch clean is an interesting method and probably cleans better that my toothbrush lol.

i have alot of plugs to do this new way...worth investing a 1/4 to a whole tank of gas for the ease and results

@@cavemandan Shouldn't clean your parts in gasoline because of the risk of fire, you use Kerosine ! & For cleaning plugs till read hot: yeah it works but heating the plug till it's red hot 1/gives the ceramic/ porcelain centre electrode a fright & 2/ it changes the plugs HEAT range...Trev New Zealand 🇳🇿 home of the world's fastest old Indian & lndy/Daytona winner Scott Dickson 😇🇳🇿

Never said it didn’t work

@@RY4NP 3 hours?

I was thinking about back in the 60s with the sulfur and the lead fouling. We sand blasted them and reinstalled on a V8 for 0.9 hours flat rate.

It’s very efficient

THANKS FOR THE INFO. ALWAYS GOOD TO KNOW SOMETHING DIFFERENT. I APPRECIATE NEW STUFF. BEST OF LUCK

Right on

So now we all need to carry a jar of vinegar, a new plug, materials to light a bonfire, a blowtorch, a mapp gas tank, a propane tank, some fine emery and a wire wheel. Got it.

I always take my generator my spark plug sandblaster and air compressor everywhere in case I need to clean a spark plug!

@@robertthayer5779 each one gets better and better ;)

Thanks for the 'picture' of those times mate.

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Best cleaning method IMO

Lol

Shit I charge $100.00 an hour!! Don't have time to waste on that..should of just been replaced from the get go!

You got that right !!!!!

has any plug exploded in engine after using the torch method. People told me the ceramic part can crack from overheating. Very scared to put in my $8K dirt bike. Please advise. Thanks.

​@@robertlingg8939 Right. You can probably replace the plug for less than $10 bucks and protect your machinery that costs hundreds or thousands of dollars. You can roll the dice and take your chances. You decide which is best. Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya?

​@@1notgilty you tell'm Harry!!! I mean Mr. Callahan

@@unimpressed.. I'm glad you got that joke!

@@1notgilty I thought it was Great! I've always been a fan of his "Protect and Serve" method

I'm watching this video to fix the fouled plugs on my 1986 Mercedes 300se, it fouled my brand new spark plugs and i ain't givin it new ones until it behaves itself. I think its got worn out valve stem seals, it wouldn't start and the spark plugs looked like they had been dunked in used motor oil.

Wire brush, fine pick and a fine file then check/regap.

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Colin - If you are in the back woods always carry extra gas and a plug in a little sparkplug case. Not a good idea firing a plug .

You can make a campfire to get the end red hot...

You sarco.

Is it the one that sort or sand blasts it

You can still buy those on ebay for $20

I want one. Very nice to have

They take the glaze off the porcelain but standard practice back then,

@David Tucker Mine uses a super fine sand..............

Bro how old are you 85 - 90 ? i was in my terrible two's LOL. you look great plus i see you're also a project Farm fan. my dad is 87, mind was a bit slow LOL. raises beer "stay thirsty my friend"

@@fvrrljr I’ll be 70 in a week, I’ve been fooling around with snowmobiles since 1962. My hard drive is slowing down but the data is still there:-)

Your father is a good man. I hope he's still with you. I'm gonna say a little prayer for him. Intelligence is why this country exists, not today's cry babies.

@@nothankyou5524 And balls.

140 octane mil spec "fuel" NOT TODAYS CHEMICALS & " MOONSHINE" ( IMITATION~ " ETHONOL ") it just fouls carburetor, fuel systems ,h yjr H²O it attracts: invented $$$$ plastic jet cartridges & rusts metal tanks, fuel lines & more! Not yo mention what they tell farmers to pour on the corn n beets to make the grow faster & bigger? " Don't worry , ain't no body gonna eat them!?!🥴" BUT we're all going to breath it, drink it & eat anything the fumes fall on + the ANIMALS THE CONSUME ALL THAT! THE GERMANS? ARE MAKING BRIGGS & STRATTON ENGINE THAT WILL RUN CLEAN ON PURE 80 OCTANE ( WWII ' PETROL!) & ADDED A RECHARGABLE BATTERY TO SAVE SHOULDERS & ELBOWS! BUT😊😅😂❤ THEY USE SODIUM- ION BATTERYS ~ 5,000 - 10,000+ RECHARGES! RECYCABLE! NON- TOXIC! ~~ OR YOU CAN USE : LITHIUM-ION EXPLOSIVE , FLAMABLE IF THEY GET HOT OR WET & CANT RECHARGE IN THE COLD! They have a toxic 1/2 life almost as much as plutonium?☠️💀⚰️🪦 BET THEY ARE ILLEGAL TO IMPORT OR THE ADAPTOR PLATES TI REPLACE THE CHINESE KNOCK OFFS OF SEARS ( RIP) THEY MURDERED TO GET THE NAME AND CALL THEM :" CRAFTSMAN" ? Also illegal to import or process = Joey Robinette BUYDUMB JR and Hunter LLC all electric world & soon $5.00 a gallon imported from 1/2 way around the world = using fuel to get it here or cleaning up after the :" Exon Valdez " spill & bury the fish & birds ! Or we can demand they cut off the pipeline lock : JOEY ROBINETTE put on thru the Native American & Canadian land : Trump agreed to pay for every drop that came thru & guard & protect the pipeline! Or Just pump it from under our feet & watch : " PAY OER VIEW WHILE THEY BANRUPT THE PLANED OR POLUTE THE WORLD PROCESSING LITHIUM-ION BATTERYS, PROPELLERS & CHINESE SOLOR CELLS? FOR OUR CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN & FAMILIES! BUT THEN THERE IS 9/ 10 OF THIS PLANET CIVERED WITH WATER = H²O = STEAM& ZERO EMMISIONS WITH NO POLLUTION BY USINING & REUSING WITH CONDENSERS! JUST FIGURE OUT A SMALL SAFE REACTOR FOR A HEAT SOURCE: IF NOT ANY COMBUSTABLE : WOOD, PAPER, CHARCOAL OR EVEN PURE PETROLEUM & " NATURAL GAS" from the earth ~ cows , pigs or even us? But no spark plugs necessary? Long life 1892? After diesel? Now diesel transports ~ "fuel" to " gas" stations ???

Yep; my dad was a mechanic and 50 years ago, he showed me how to clean spark plug with gasoline and a piece of wire; then gap them. I maintained my 1970 Volkswagen Beetle that way for 5 years and I replaced plug once.

The problem with using a steel brush is that it deposits steel particles on the ceramic part , turning it into a semi conductor.

@@quartusbuys6831 not if you rinse it off after with gas or a decent solvent of choice

Been doing it that way for 50 years, always works for me.

I’d dip the end of that plug into petrol then set fire to it . That’ll burn all the sh!t of . Works every time .

He used MAPP gas. Pay attention.

One winter I watched these guys work on a 70's Civic for several days. Crank crank crank and no start. They had no money so they didn't try too many things. We went over to stick our nose it it and found that it probably only needed plugs. We pulled them out, cranked the engine to pump out the flood of gasoline in the cylinders, then blew air into the holes to dry it out. We built a small fire and put the tips of the plugs into the flame. Once the plugs were dry, we screwed them in hot and the car fired right up.

@@SA-iw4ci your point is? I know, a map gas tank will fit in your pocket much easier than a propane tank.

@@fuckjoebiden1435 It's spelled with two p's ....Mapp.

Scott, I agree, seems like a waste of time as well. At home I use a wire wheel

a brush dont get down in the plug where the mess is you need to blast it out with harbor freights plug blaster does aperfect job and its cheap if you try you want do it any other way it the only to realy clean one like new

That’s what I have been doing for around 50 years use brass wire brush & Emory cloth re gap & sorted .No need for blowtorch

@@frankdavidson9675 Cocktail stick or gentle picker between down in the insulator gap & outer .swill with petrol & wipe with rag after using wire brush & Emory .No need for fancy smancy plug blasters or cleaners .I have been doing it for 50 years even on mucky 2 pre mix 2 stroke plugs .4 stroke plugs shouldn’t be getting very dirty if your engines tuned correctly .The plug should be a nice tan colour if it’s too light your running too lean & hot ,if it’s dark your running too rich wasting fuel & diluting the oil in your engine ,both not good for engine longevity ..We don’t have those tacky Harbour freight gaffs flogging cheapo tat tools in the U.K. Our cheap stores sell slightly better cheap tat tools than in the USA ,but we are slowly getting there & no doubt end up with our own Harbour freight type gaffs .God help us .

@@maskedavenger2578 do know how o read a ohm meter i can see the path to ground down around the post you can not geta brush down in this area my meter tells me when its clean that high voltage take path of least resistance in stead of jump ing the gap on the plug i was cleaning plugs when you were born im 87 set your meter on highest ohms scale read from top of plug to the threads any reading here says its still dirty causing miss fire random

@@frankdavidson9675 Your being too fussy if your going to that trouble why not just buy another plug .A few seconds after you have cleaned every bit of crap off your plug & refit it & start your engine up it will be same as if you had only cleaned 90 % of the muck off the plug anyway .It’s surprising how bad a plug has to get on a 4 stroke before performance is reduced .I use my multimeter for fault tracing & checking my battery charging circuits .I change my plugs at half the milage again of what the manufacturer states & clean my plugs once in between ,the old school method & never have any engine probs & first time starts in damp old England in winter .The more you unscrew a plug the more risk of damaging the weak alloy cylinder head plug threads requiring heli coiling ,if it ain’t broke don’t fix it .

I bet your really tired now!!

@@richardtemby4358 I c what u did there

Same here, I saw my father do that many times when I was a kid but like your grandfather he never let it get cherry red.

I typically knock off the excess, and use a cigar lighter (butane torch) to burn off the moisture and whatever debris remains. I’ll put the flame to it for about 15-20 seconds and it always works for me. Never thought about getting out a propane tank and heating the tip until the ring below the threads was glowing red hot. Neat-O

Don't heat up to cherry red since the porcelain insulator can crack

I used brake cleaner to get stains out of the wall to wall carpet when we bought our last house. Nothing else worked. Eventually we put in wood floors.

So how do u get the deposits off the insulator down deep in the plug?

@@THEMOWERMEDIC1 probably not but it usually gets the machine running. If it's a customer they get a new plug. I was a little worried that you heated that plug until it was red but it did look mighty clean. I know a guy that used to sand blast them but IDK if that's a good idea?

It’s fine to blast them but most ppl are careless and don’t get all the blasting media out of the plug

Is this for real like how stuo9d can u he to not know how to brush off a spark plug if u know to brush your teath

@@davidreali9642 Can't get deep inside with a brush

You are the first person that agrees that sand can get stuck in there down deep

@@THEMOWERMEDIC1 That's why Champion etc rec to give them a clean with shop air after....not Rocket Science.Cheers from New Zealand.Bye

They still sale them at H.Freight"

How's the body holding up after nearly a half century of hard physical labor?

@@muziklvr7776 A little skin cancer , A bad back but still getting around. Thanks for your concern.

@@muziklvr7776 You don't live 45 years in that occupation without having a brain between your ears.

Pulling an oxy/acetylene torch through the woods be be harder than dragging a fallen buck out of the woods. ​I'll stick to carrying a Zippo lighter around. You'll never know when you may cross a bear in the woods looking to share a blunt with you if you have a light. I've been hearing about bears in the woods snorting cocaine. It must be true. They made a movie about it.

I keep a spare one wrapped in a condom tied to string then wrapped in rag to give to a tight push fit in the weed wacker handle [other orifices can be similarly stuffed] ;

The plus about doing that is you guarantee a new plug, the minus is if you don’t have one you have to get one.

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Yeah I was just watching this and thought the very exact thing and was about to message this and I saw that you beat me to it

Well at least you learn something

..l ALWAYS carry my grandfather's flame thrower he used in Iwo Jima, at the back of my car... Never know when you'll have to use it...like instant BBQs with the boys 🤟👍

The sand leads to sand left in the plug that gets in engines. Briggs and Stratton had to study engine failures. They traced it to sand. The blaster was the source in shops. Bad practices of incomplete cleaning after blasting. The wet method also keeps all of it from becoming airborne. Today the customer is trained to call the mechanic a crook. Now he has to buy everything new every time because patience is a gift. Cost exceeds value. Then China sells him a new one that needs to be thrown away. Progressive ideas from the CCP Rules for shop survival

@@dannylinc6247 I can’t argue that sand can destroy an engine. But from the number of vehicles that had their spark plugs cleaned that way over the years and didn’t suffer premature engine failure I’d say it was a satisfactory method of cleaning. The cleaning unit was designed by Champion Spark Plug Company, if it was to be proven that plug cleaning sand was detrimental to engines and could lead to law suits from premature engine failure caused by sandblasted plugs Champion would not have continued with its use. However today, technically advanced plugs do not require such cleaning methods.

@@richardshort4587 during that time, of the Briggs and Stratton study, so many engines were affected, they called for them and tore them down. Then took the blasters out of the shops because the wet method is keeping the particulate matter out of workers lungs and helping keep it out of engines due to bad practices trying to save time. I still have a blaster for plugs. But carb spray and tapping before gapping can show the particles of sand. Briggs and Stratton imploded and took the riches of their company and allowed their designs to go foreign and be copied. Nowadays you use different parts. But cleaning can still save a plug. I just did that the other day to a new mower for a friend. His fuel practices lead to problems. He doesn't buy it right. Its price has been driven up. He doesn't run them out. He let's them sit. He overfills his oil. So clean them is his answer to get the grass cut.

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Yea my friend would take a bunch off fouled plugs and put it in a coke can ripped in half put gas in it then light it on fire.. In fact people say in the field, well if you are in the fiiels and your plug looks like that one your Idea is best. Becaue I dont have a torch or a heat gun when im out cutting.

With my luck it would cut the conductor right off.

wIth my luck I'd set the shop on fire.

As you do too, I always carry an oxy acetylene torch with me at all times just in case !

Now thay will say that's how the California fires started.

Why not the plug gets hotter inside of a running engine.

@@THEMOWERMEDIC1 well yeah that's true. I'll agree with you on that. But I never seen a clean like that cleaning it with a torch. Someone told me it can still do damage to the plug cleaning it like that. This is just what I heard from someone. That's all. Thanks for the response back. Good luck to you.

@@THEMOWERMEDIC1 I'll agree with your friend. Yeah, plug does get hotter inside of an engine. I was talking about cleaning it that way if the plug was going to be good people do what they want. That's all right. I enjoy the video though. Thank you.

Yes simple lighter and safety-pin is enough. Safety-pin is also easy to carry with

A Lighter dosnt get hot enough

@@THEMOWERMEDIC1 It isn't needed to be burned "reddish" really just burn the oil off and then use safety-pin to remove the junk from the plug

@@aris95 awesome. You do you and I’ll do it Right

@@THEMOWERMEDIC1 It is also easier to handle when not burned reddish

Most ppl don’t so that why I say avoid it.

@@THEMOWERMEDIC1 , You've got a point there. Too many engines are operated by the mentally deficient. If they operated the engine for 500 hours, with the carburetor mis-adjusted, running excessively rich, washing the oil from the cylinder walls, and diluting the lube in the sump ... (the reason that the plug was excessively fouled in the first place) - then, there is a good chance that they might not possess the mechanical aptitude, to clean the glass beads from the plug, before reinstalling it.

@@marshalllhiepler there is no sump on a 2-cycle mixed fuel engine. You’re not going to wash the lube off the cylinder walls unless it’s not being fed any fuel while the engine is forced to to go; that’s why 2-cycle engines are no good for vehicles capable of ‘jake-braking’. Nobody thinks about that; the engine has to be disengaged and idling while letting the brakes do their job. Downshifting and allowing the engine to slow down a motorcycle is what causes the most engine damage because without the fuel there is no lubrication. Using a propane torch to clean the plug is a trick used out in the field when you don’t have a spare but like the man said- you can crack the porcelain VERY EASILY and end up with a destroyed engine! I’ll continue to use a wire brush to get me out of a jam and put down a couple of spare plugs on my list of things to pickup after work.

The same place you have your torch of course

A blowtorch has multiple uses

trying to restore normality: just to say that some of us did, of course, understand your funny irony.

I dunno. Maybe a pocket?

That or just use my methodology!

Yep. For 2 bucks, I'll just replace it

You do know that the operating temperature of the plug is considerably higher than the propane so a propane cleaning is almost non destructive. Oil fouling that does not get cleared from a plug under normal operation is indicative of worn rings and the kyanite in the ceramic insulator in the plug is form stable for several thousand degrees. If the electrode breaks off, it was more likely due to mechanical damage, dropping, wrench/ socket misalignment, over torqueing, cracking the insulators, but not by the relatively low heat of MAPP or propane. Oxy-acetylene? Yes, possible damage to the metal by de tempering and softening and loss of toughness, though the insulators will hold up to a simple cleaning by heat.

@@mikegrant8490 No it's not. The plug does not glow red hot during operation. If it did, it would burn off all the deposits just like the torch did. Use your head.

@@davelowets That's NOT what I said. Reread it and get back to me. The spark itself, meaning that the point at which it is firing, is much hotter. The spark is intermittent and of short duration. The spark is only in that gap. Surely you've seen thermography of flame spread for mapping fuel injection, haven't you? Putting in stepped heat range plugs from cooler to hotter and observing the values under various engine loads gives you the data to extrapolate best performance and maximum mpgs with the cleanest burn for the longest engine life. I worked at a machine shop that had an engineer that was tasked with building an assembly machine for tube bending for multi point injection on 4.3 GM V-6's back in the 80s. GM sent reams of thermography so that engineer could design the tubing bender assembler based on that data. Six tubes, different lengths and bends, all flowing sequentially, all bent to fit within parameters preestablished by GM to fit around the engine, per the mapping, with equal firing on all cylinders for smooth running and "cool runnings" as they say in Jamaica, mon... As you know, if the spark plug glowed red hot all the time, you could not have ignition of the atomized combustible fuel as it would pre-ignite, predetonation being the bane of any internal combustion engine. The engine would not run well, if at all. ( I agree with you, I too would just change the damn 2 buck plug... )

@@davelowets I see where you misunderstood what I said. Operating temperature is what I was referring to is THE HEAT RANGE of the plug.