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How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 9:07 pm
by JBog
How do you take apart and clean plugs like the Champion X?
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 11:55 pm
by Steve Jelf
Put the collar in a vise and turn the base with a wrench. You can derust in Evaporust and finish with a wire brush wheel. Reassembling, you have to get it tight enough to stay together but not tight enough to crack the insulator. If the electrode ends are rounded you can flatten them with a little grinder, but be careful not to take off very much material.
https://dauntlessgeezer.com/DG95.html
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 11:56 pm
by Steve Hughes
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:43 am
by TXGOAT2
I might use a wire brush on metal spark plug parts. I would never use a wire brush on any non-metal parts of a spark plug. I would use a small, fine, single cut file to re-shape electrodes, if necessary.
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:11 am
by Steve Jelf
I would never use a wire brush on any non-metal parts of a spark plug.
Yes, only on the steel parts. Never on the insulator.
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:39 am
by JBog
How do you clean old staining off of the porcelain?
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 11:05 am
by Rich P. Bingham
JBog wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:39 am
How do you clean old staining off of the porcelain?
Barkeeper's Friend
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 12:02 pm
by Original Smith
The question is, are the copper asbestos gaskets available? Has a substitute been found for the asbestos, and if so are they available?
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 12:42 pm
by Steve Jelf
The question is, are the copper asbestos gaskets available?
The link Steve Hughes and I posted shows the substitute I use. It's what I use because I've never found anything exactly like the originals.
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 1:36 pm
by su8pack1
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 1:47 pm
by TXGOAT2
Nice radio. What brand is it?
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:12 pm
by su8pack1
TXGOAT2 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 1:47 pm
Nice radio. What brand is it?
Carlton.
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 9:44 pm
by J1MGOLDEN
Just soak them in washing ammonia.
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 9:59 pm
by tdump
I tried putting a more modern 1 piece small engine spark plug in a ultra sonic cleaner,that did not work well,it apparently broke the adhesive loose or whatever keeps the porcelain tight in the metal..
Re: How do you clean Champion X plugs?
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 6:45 am
by George House
Steve: many thanks for posting that treatise on Champion spark plugs and the differences therein. Especially the years of their introduction. I have 2 Folgers coffee cans full of ‘em so I’m going to sort out the ones I can dismantle and polish the brass tops of those I can’t
