Spark plugs?

[fasteddie]

I want to pull my spark plugs to pour a little oil in the cylinders, but with the tight fit it's hard to get any leverage to pull the boots off. Any tricks?

 

[Ironmanstl]

only takes 10 mins to pull the tank off then its easy

 

[shadow44]

X2, pull the gas tank off for the time it takes.

 

[sgilbert]

do yourself a favor and skip it. unless you ran it out of oil, its already there

 

[fasteddie]

I forgot to mention that the sled has 0000 miles on it. Does this make a difference? I assume that the rings have not seated yet.

 

[vsmpowered]

just dont start the sled till you ready to ride

 

[Zakre]

the yamaha plug tool makes taking the plugs out a breeze, its in the front pouch. personally i would give them a shot of oil and not run the sled till the winter. Change out the coolant to a 50/50 mix while you are at it and get ahead of the game.

 

[kizerboy]

The yamaha plug tool works well and its a breeze to get them out no tank removal is nessasary. The coil sticks have a flexible rubber end on the so no worries on breaking them when you pull them out.

 

[Jarrodsdad]

I want to pull my spark plugs to pour a little oil in the cylinders, but with the tight fit it's hard to get any leverage to pull the boots off. Any tricks?

I have no mechanical aptitude but had the same problem.

I trying to get at the plugs right now.

After twisting and pulling on those boots I came up with the idea of using a 1" tie down strap to loop around the top of the boot. Pulled up an out she came!

I hope it's the spark plug boot that came out. The damn thing is 5" long. Now to find the spark plug!

 

[Jarrodsdad]

This is the spark plug boot. Right??

 

[radianguy]

Twist and pull

 

[Hooray!]

This is the spark plug boot. Right??

Lol... Do they really need to be changed that often... Tight under there for sure... Mine runs fine so left them as is.

 

[Seavey82]

Remove the tank to torque plugs to 9.4 ft lbs. Cant torque correctly with tank on. It be one thing if you were in a pinch on the side of the trail. If you break a plug from over torque you'll have some work to do.