{"id":3948,"date":"2010-10-24T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T21:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2010-10-24T19:01:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T00:01:43","slug":"a-tool-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3948","title":{"rendered":"A Tool is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about the second coming of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZWTzyU5MFgM\">Matt Damon<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A couple months ago I did the plugs in the Exploder but only managed 6 of 8 because I couldn&#8217;t get the damned heat sleeves out. They had rusted into the head and no amount of wiggling would get them out. <\/p>\n<p>Last night on the way back to the house from where we met Mr B and Midwest Chick, the Exploder threw a Lambda probe code. The right bank of cylinders was running lean. I believe the one bad spark plug was causing the exhaust to be a bit rich, the lambda probe was trying to lean out the injectors to compensate, and then it ran too lean. <\/p>\n<p>So knowing I was going to have to fight with the sleeves, I invented this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image3947\" alt=vise-hammer.png src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/vise-hammer.png\" height=75><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t actually take credit for the Vise Grip Slide Hammer, a lot of people I know have and use them. What I will take credit for, is discovering that you can buy the stone-stock $16 Harbor Freight slide hammer, and the $3 harbor freight vise grips, unscrew the adjustment screw from the vise grips and screw the slide hammer right in. <\/p>\n<p>Clamp the vise grips on the offending sleeve, smack the  slide hammer back smartly, and wow, the little bastard pops right out. Swapping the plugs was then quite easy. <\/p>\n<p>The rusty bit of pipe-looking stuff is the sleeve in question. I sanded them and never-seized them before I replaced them. <\/p>\n<p>I clear the code and it seems to stay away, for now. Hope it stays gone. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now you know how to make your own Vise Hammer.  <\/p>\n<p>A tip of the hat to Partner for the title of the post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about the second coming of Matt Damon. A couple months ago I did the plugs in the Exploder but only managed 6 of 8 because I couldn&#8217;t get the damned heat sleeves out. They had rusted into the head and no amount of wiggling would get them out. Last night on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}