I think what you meant to say here was "easy-out", not "tap."

I've had very mixed success with easy-outs, and depending on what cylinder
we're talking about here, it might be darn near impossible to get a drill
started.

I've had the most success with easy-outs where I can drill *completely
through* the bolt (spark plug in this case) but I don't know if I'd want
to drill all the way through the spark plug, what with the resulting
fallout into the cylinder.

On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Gary Edwards wrote:

> You might try a tap. For this, you  drill a hole and screw in the tap(they
> come in various sizes), which turns counter-clockwise to the bolt. It goes in,
> gets tight, and hopefully exerts enough force in the stuck thing to turn it
> out.

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