I just got my oil-line reducer in today for my turbo and decided to check the plugs while I was under the hood. Plugs looked good, so why not a compression test. Pulled number 1 out and put the tester in (hand tight because no wrench could fit in there). Compression checked good. Went to pull it out and switch to #2, and it's STUCK! It's never done this before. I need to know what I can do without pulling apart the whole damn motor. I keep twisting on the rubber hose of the tester and all it wants to do is bind up and slip a bit. My theory is that the motor was hot when I put the tester in, so maybe the tolerances of the aluminum could have seized it there, until the motor completely cools down. Has this ever happened to anyone here? Can anyone shed some light on this! HELLPPPPP!!!!

-Thanks
James

 

Happened to me once, we just had to rip off the hose and wrench it out. But Im sure you got it out by now.

 

no.., it's still in there. What do you mean wrench it out?

 

Ohh, well most of them have a bolt type fitting on the peice that you screw into the head. We just ripped off the tube and found a socket that fit. We ruined the comression tester but the car was saved.

 

Woohoo! Then there's hope. Hopefully this tester is like the one you've already had experience with. This one has a pressed on fitting at the end of the hose. This fitting screws into another fitting that screws into the plug hole. These two screw fittings are loctite'd together to keep the one from coming undone in the plug chamber. So unscrewing them is definitly out of order. But after i get off work this evening, I'm going home and hopefully pop the rubber hose off the fitting like you did. I just dont want to take my head off from something so small. Alot of work can hopefully be avoided.

How exactly did you get the hose off? Just pull it until it comes undone?

Thanks a million man!

-james

 

if that doesnt work, try useing a flat head screw driver, lightly tap it in the fitting and turn it as long as you didnt over tighten the fitting.

 

We just pulled it off, well it more or less came off as we were turning the thing. It sounds like the one you have is close to the one we used so there is a good chance a socket will fit. Good luck this evening.

Ryan

 

is your **** still stuck? cause its happened to me twice before.

 

Thanks for all the help! Yes, much luck needed this evening.

-James

 

Yes, it is still stuck. Tried to get it out this morning before I left for work. Didn't budge.

-James

 

spray pb blast in the hole. just a lil and also crank teh motor over while your trying to unscrew it

 

well.., I tried HondaLube last night. But I couldn't crank the motor and twist at the same time because I was by myself.

 

have someone crank it to heat it up a lil , it should come out

 

Well.., to my suprise, it's still in there. Last night I tried PB blaster, tried cranking the car while my friend twisted, tried a pair of long needle nose pliers, and then tried to just yank the **** outta the hose to get it to come off. Nothing! So.., I guess I'm pulling the head tonight! I dont think I'll ever use a compression tester again! Thanks for the help everyone.

-James

(If anyone lives near South MS, wants to lend a hand, and cares for some free beer, let me know! We'll get all we can drink! Haha)

 

Keep at it man

 

dont pull the head.. just do what they say and rip that hose off.. of get someone strong with a big plyers to rip it out .. then put a socket and unscrew that fitting from the head.

 

Don't the spark plug tubes come out of the head? If so, why not pull the valve cover and get that damn thing out

 

To my knowledge the spark plug tubes do not come out. Please correct me if I am wrong though. But I've had the head off on several occasions and I have yet to notice the tubes come off. I think they are part of the head casting itself. Well.., it was raining last night so I didn't get anything done. I think I'm going to try one more time on getting the hose off. Maybe put a std. screwdriver in where the hose goes into the fitted part and hit it with a hammer to see if it'll pop out. But me and a much larger guy tried our asses off to yank it out, even with a set of vise grips to heed the slipping. Once again.., wish me luck!

-James

 

Alright man, we gotta get this thing out! My buddy and I twisted the absolute hell out of the hose before we pulled so hard we ripped the hose off. But if you dont give a fleeting hell about the tester just get a razor blade or something to get that god damn hose off. Then hop over to your tool box and grab and extension and some sockets that look like they might fit, from my foggy memory it might even be the same size as the spark plug socket. Grap your socket wrench and then make haste in turning that damn tester out of there. Once you get it out, find a metal bucket and some lighter fluid. Throw the whole tester in there, gauge and all and light that thing up. Grab a beer and watch it burn. Gods Speed my friend, Gods Speed.

Ryan

 

Well, did some minor research and on a sohc, you can take the tubes out by removing the rocker assebly.

If you are using pliers to try to twist the hose, try vice grips and put alot of pressure on it (twisting force) and if you can get a narrow screwdriver down the tube. Put the tip of the screwdriver on the fitting and tap it fairly hard while holding twisting pressure from the vice grips. It'll probably take more than one set of hands to do this Hope this helps.

 

Hahaha.., lighter fluid + compression tester + lighter + cold beer = Big *** smile!

I wonder if the tubes come out the same way on the DOHC? B18C Head to be exact.... I'll have to research it and see what comes up.

Thanks a million guys!!

-James

 

Did you get it out of there?

 

Happens all the time. Usually, the compression tester end is like a 15mm, so you just drop a socket down the hole and loosen it up, then you have to get a screw driver and dig it out because the fitting is brass and magnets don't work.