Q: Rethreaded my spark plug and may have dropped some small metal shavings in the plug hole is there a way to get them out
I rethreaded my spark plug and some metal shavings may have dropped in the spark plug hole is there a way to get them out before I start the engine me
My car has 125000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
The only thing you can do to get out the metal shavings from the cylinder without removing the cylinder head is to use a long air hose pressure probe into spark plug hole and blow air into cylinder to try and blow the debris from the cylinder.
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