By worf - Wed Dec 31, 2025 8:20 pm
- Wed Dec 31, 2025 8:20 pm
#327898
This is a placeholder thread and an SEO test to see if I can create a venue for a 718 guy that has made a custom spark plug socket for the 4.0 liter engines for the 718.
For those "not in the know" Porsche, being more-Porsche-than usual, made the cam cover plug well for the 4.0 engine so small that only a super-thin walled plug socket can enter it. Even better it's at an angle so you have to use a u-joint or wobble extension. The special Hazet socket is available only from Porsche but it's Porsche-priced and not very good. And, yes, NOTHING else you can buy fits.
A gentleman on Rennlist started machining-down normal plug sockets to fit with a permanently attached u-joint and extension for less than the Hazet part.
A couple of folks bought the tool and loved it.
Last week he posted so see if there was more interest and he was - to put it mildly - banned. More like scorched earth the likes of which I've never seen in 25+ years on RL.
Hopefully by this time tomorrow googling for "custom plug socket 718" might find this thread?
For those "not in the know" Porsche, being more-Porsche-than usual, made the cam cover plug well for the 4.0 engine so small that only a super-thin walled plug socket can enter it. Even better it's at an angle so you have to use a u-joint or wobble extension. The special Hazet socket is available only from Porsche but it's Porsche-priced and not very good. And, yes, NOTHING else you can buy fits.
A gentleman on Rennlist started machining-down normal plug sockets to fit with a permanently attached u-joint and extension for less than the Hazet part.
A couple of folks bought the tool and loved it.
Last week he posted so see if there was more interest and he was - to put it mildly - banned. More like scorched earth the likes of which I've never seen in 25+ years on RL.
Hopefully by this time tomorrow googling for "custom plug socket 718" might find this thread?
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Heinlein’s Corollary: Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
The Reddit Conjecture: Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
Worf’s Razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by laziness.
Worf’s Identity: Sufficiently advanced laziness is indistinguishable from stupidity
Worf's Law: Once you've mitigated risk from stupidity and laziness in your endeavors, failure is usually the result of insufficient imagination.
My 928 Inspection Guide
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