Not rode my scooter with new plug in yet,
but possibly wont see any difference cos ive only done about 80 miles on it since owning it

NorfolkChris wrote:Well I took the plunge and bought me these super fandango plugs. All I have to do us figure out how much plastic to take off to fit it.

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NorfolkChris wrote:Well I took the plunge and bought me these super fandango plugs. All I have to do us figure out how much plastic to take off to fit it.

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I thought I'd love it til

smeghead wrote: One worry was that the screw on top seemed to be cross threaded, it looked a little bent when out came out of the box and would not screw off. I applied a little pressure and it broke off,

I did the same!
I emailed the bloke and he's told me to drill out the 3 tiny dots round the cap.
I'll do it for the second one and see how it goes!

Just as a matter of interest why do you guys want to remove the end cap. Don't you have push on leads?

spaceprobe wrote:Just as a matter of interest why do you guys want to remove the end cap. Don't you have push on leads?

They are still push on but some plug leads just push on to the threaded top of the plug. The end cap has to be removed.

You could say buy new plug leads like the seller did. But Yamaha ones are £60 each and I doubt they'd do both types.
Every plug I've ever seen can have the end cap unscrewed. Except these!
A pointless bit of welding.
I've tried the damaged plug on an old plug lead and luckily it will just go on so I'll set about drilling/grinding the other one.

Whatever I do, I always have to do it the hard way! I can turn any 30 minute job into 4 hours

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I am in that club too. This will amuse you all, back in 1987 I bought a new Fiat Uno, kept it 10 years and faffed around under the bonnet, you know, oil changes, plugs, air filter etc. One day I was re assembling something or other and dropped a small screw. I searched in vain for the little bugger to no avail. Found a replacement in my tool box and that was that. But it wasn't, the sodding screw had managed to lodge itself between the bottom pulley and the timing belt, a million to one chance of that occurring and it happened to me. As I cranked the engine over, you've guessed it, the belt snapped and I subsequently had a top end rebuild on my hands. It still makes me laugh thinking about it. (not)

We had the same struggle with mine when installing it to the burgman with Data. We used brute force with pliers but it didn't budge. Eventually we tried the round section of the pliers rather than the straight end and because round section grips all around the cap, therefore distributes the force applied, we managed to loosen it from the thread without breaking. It was a close call though...