How To Clean Spark Plugs (Andy’s Garage: Episode - 63)

Andy Phillips shows how to effectively clean and restore spark plugs, using common household products!
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[@RamosSupra]

Looks pretty good! Goes to auto-parts store. Clerk: "What can I help you wit" Andy: "One spark plug please." 😅

[@lucianocasanova8924]

Now I see why auto parts stores have a soda section😅😅😅

[@PhillipsVision]

👍

[@lucianocasanova8924]

@@PhillipsVision I actually did a prank call with Autozone on this right after I made my comment🤣🤣🤣

[@PhillipsVision]

@@lucianocasanova8924 nice...lol

[@NHPhamousPolo]

always! lol

[@lydellbell4638]

Great Content Thank you for your work and sharing

[@mariobannano6592]

He did nice job right to the point

[@Shedlight420]

Thank you for sharing.

[@angelbluerider9588]

did you put them back in your car??

[@cuzz63]

I cleaned mine with oven cleaner. Never thought about using cola.

[@muhammadomershah5124]

Thanks for your showing

[@PhillipsVision]

Dawer Awer you’re welcome 👍

[@josiahhardy]

That’s awesome thank You!!!

[@gbengajoshuaodutola8200]

Wow, incredible!!!

[@6512651]

That's good, vinegar will work too, hotter the better and at least over night. It's most important to get the carbon off the inside insulator. Carbon is conductive and fouls the plug. After soaking, brush the insulator with comet and a tooth brush to clean off the carbon. Rinse with hot water, and repeat comet scrubbing until center insulator looks as white as possible, light tan color is okay, black color is bad.

[@raymondbetancourt6498]

Can u mix comet & vinegar?

[@Curi0u50ne]

An drink the Coke or put it in the rad?

[@whatsnewstudios243]

If soda does this to a spark plug imagine what it’s doing to your body 😂💯

[@MCOult]

Yes, especially if you have a great deal of carbon buildup and rust.

[@cuzz63]

I have zero carbon buildup after drinking one soda a day/.

[@delanosawyer1762]

Can you use-goof off Overspray remover as well

[@jjforsyth3]

How well did it clean inside the end of the plug? Near the ceramic insulator?

[@ernestchaney1943]

Will a brass brush work as well? Great video, very informative.

[@PhillipsVision]

It should but make sure you remove all the build up. In some cases the plugs are just too worn down and need to be replaced.

[@sueevans7389]

Great video 👍

[@PhillipsVision]

Thx

[@Games-xu6fh]

When we clean spark plug using sand paper, will the remains of the sand on the spark plug affect the engine any way like damaging internal parts?

[@harrisonayodi1529]

Great and how do you dry the spark plugs?

[@PhillipsVision]

I just let them air dry or you can use a hair dryer

[@charlesbongay1435]

How much longer did you use them after cleaning them before replacing them? Great video presentation

[@PhillipsVision]

CHARLES BONGAY thx. They are still good. They are a replacement set so were not used full time, but they are still in great condition

[@peggyweathers]

I have been watching videos on how to clean spark plugs, showing how to clean the spark plugs. None so far show the spark plugs cleaned working in equipment working after cleaning, WHY? I am a woman, having difficulty starting pressure washer, might be spark plug , but it looks clean. new to fixing tools just learning.@@PhillipsVision

[@joeyhaney9339]

Ive always hit them with a torch for about 30 seconds to a minute best way to see if the core and the insolator has separated gas gets trapped between them and burns off. Works better at getting all the carbon built up on the ceramic and down in the plug than just a wire brush and soaking them

[@selfsameday7448]

Do you drink the res of the coke? Bro?

[@cleowally]

Would carborator cleaner work?

[@olenaerhardt7725]

What is the proper way to remove oil from the spark plug well? My valve gasket was broken and some oil accumulated in the wells. In one film they said you can't remove those spark plugs since the oil will go somewhere where it is not supposed to be.

[@Curi0u50ne]

I'd use a long screwdriver with tissue roll paper work my way round before you remove the plug n soak all that gunk up.

[@olenaerhardt7725]

@@Curi0u50ne Thank you, I used already fluid extractor, but thank you for your replay, it is also very good tip.

[@brendanj1124]

get some clean rags, an a long thin screwdriver, fold the rag a few times over so your not gettin any bits of cloth from the edge stuck int here as well try get it out... ive had both water an oil in there bro you just do what you can do while stress veins are pumping... keep in mind the more thorough you are, the less chances you have of anything falling into the cylinders. good luck

[@olenaerhardt7725]

@@brendanj1124 Thank you, I pumped out some and wiped out the rest as you recommended. Someone wrote me that if some oil gets there not that big deal, since it will be burned, and you 'll just see some smoke initially, then it will disappears. But I wiped out everything to be on the safe side. Everything works just fine. Thank you again.

[@carpark8333]

Tns for the information idol,,#HALOGEMS TV

[@usernamemykel]

The old phosphoric acid bath.

[@victoryfirst2878]

The brush looks like it is stainless steel 2:50 ?? Would using Coke Cola in a ultrasound make the process go faster ??? Nice video Sir too. v

[@amourmtungo623]

How to get inside it though?

[@allin4296]

Can i do the same for iridium plugs?

[@PhillipsVision]

Should work on any that have build up as long as the plugs are not damaged

[@user-sh9du2nv5y]

Will 7up work just as well ?

[@Curi0u50ne]

Coke only CC has dissolving properties, 7 up juss sweet n sticky.

[@atomicdmt8763]

how about an ultrasonic cleaner?

[@demonboy619]

This is insane

[@yungnesh7599]

Do you put them back on your car ..n if u do is there gonna be problem

[@sandveldoff-campdrifters2174]

Can one use thinners?!

[@PhillipsVision]

Yes, but make sure you rinse and dry them thoroughly

[@hamzayemeni2011]

انت صفيتة من خارج الشمعة اهم شئ من الداخل

[@smoke126857]

And they work like or almost like new afterwards?

[@PhillipsVision]

Reginald Brown yep, no problems. I’m going to be doing a follow up vid soon showing their performance afterwards👍

[@a.j.williams195]

@@PhillipsVision hurry up i need to see that!

[@carlosmalave9467]

Does it has to be Regular Coke? The other flavors are just as nasty!

[@glenbolding9883]

People drink something that works like cleaner fluid.... Think about what it does to the body..... Hmmmmm

[@PhillipsVision]

Very true. That’s why I normally don’t consume that stuff

[@electric8668]

Brakleen or Brake cleaner is probably better.

[@electric8668]

I not convinced that the gap area was cleaned well.

[@benfitzell8701]

Can you use Pepsi?

[@da9killakev]

😂

[@pennyparker6025]

Love this comment ❤ pepsi is my way way of life!! It gives me life anyway lol

[@usernamemykel]

Anything that has phosphoric acid as an ingredient.

[@stevefoster6271]

You don't like Wokeacola?

[@alanmcrae8594]

Active ingredient in Coca Cola is phosphoric acid. Any mild acid solution would probably work. Vinegar is acetic acid, for example. Salt water is notorious as a corrosive agent, hence adding salt to the mixture. At a microscopic level the salt probably causes some surface pitting, but at that scale it likely doesn't really matter. Anyway, I have some spark plugs to clean so I'll take what I learned here and try to apply it with what I have on hand. Thanks Andy!

[@usernamemykel]

Just give them to Mr. Conehead,

[@808702Connect]

will pepsi do?or does it have to be Coke lol

[@gregrajab6085]

Pepsi works for the cheap spark plugs 😃

[@eliemusafiri6448]

Can pepsi work

[@sarahendrix3132]

If coke does pepsi should as well.

[@tenzackyogi1742]

I have other techniques. DM me.

[@TRyan-op2jo]

Where on Earth did you get Coke in a 16 oz can?

[@SwainixFPV]

that's just standard in Europe, idk where you live

[@NHPhamousPolo]

right!!!!!??? i swear all i kept think was great video and all, but i needs to know where you got that 16oz coke from

[@josiahhardy]

Dollar tree all day long

[@garyhilson7220]

And that's one of the reasons why I don't drink this SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@pinkladybikermamma3603]

AND YOU DRANK THAT COKE?

[@PhillipsVision]

PinkLady Bikermamma lol

[@MsIvicao]

I will definitely try this....