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Subject:Re: O2 sensor wiring
From:Mike Collum
Date:Mon, 6 Nov 2006 21:07:14 -0500

Big vice grips, heat, and a good cheater pipe?  Vice grips and a bigger
hammer?  Yep, sometimes those things seem to become one with the bung.

Mike

jon wrote:
> I used a 7/8", and stripped it. The $#@$#@@$# thing is in there pretty
> good. I have doused it with PB Blaster.
>
> Now, anyone have thoughts on how to get it out? It's pretty durned round
> now. Grrrrr.
>
> I've rebuilt an aircooled VW engine without this much trouble!!!
>
> -Jon
>
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Mike Collum wrote:
>
>
>>You can use a 7/8" wrench if you don't have the proper metric one.
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>
>>jon wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks, that's what I thought. It takes a 21 mm wrench (or deep, deep
>>>socket), correct? (Or wasit 22???)
>>
>