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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?

worf wrote: ↑Wed Dec 31, 2025 8:20 pm 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?

I just came back to this and I guess the SEO test failed.

I checked the first 6 pages of Google and no mention of this thread.

Sucks. But I think we're SOL in the age of pay-for-search-results?

I duuno. You're the Marketing Guy.

worf wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2026 10:34 am Sucks. But I think we're SOL in the age of pay-for-search-results?

I duuno. You're the Marketing Guy.

Well that's part of it but the other part is that the public forums on this site don't get a tremendous amount of traffic. So when the search engines see that they de-prioritize results. If traffic picked up I'm sure we'd see an improvement but that's tough when there are so many other automotive resources with a lot more content.

Chicken and egg problem.