Compression Tester Stuck?!

[vortex2450]

The story is that after I ran some seafoam through the my mtx today I pulled all the plugs to clean them and check all the gaps, I figured I would test compression while I was at it. Wrong...

I simply fed the hose into the plug well and hand tightened it just enough to hold a seal. But when I went to unscrew it the hose spins inside the fitting (no adapter, the fitting on the hose was the correct size). I've tried pushing/pulling while turning on it for about 15 minutes with no luck...

It's stuck in cylinder #6, I've search through 4 pages on google and came up with results like cutting the hose and using a long flat head to turn it out, using loc-tite or superglue. I spent $50 I really didn't have on this tester and don't want to hack it up, but on the other hand I need it out of my plug well..


I realize that I definitely should have applied some anti-seize on the fitting before hand but that doesn't help me now.

This seems to be a common issue people run into, and you guy know have deep the #6 plug well is so isn't easy to get too by any means. I'm going to pull the intake tomorrow morning to give me some space.


Any input? This is such an annoyance, I go out to clean the engine clean today and I come back in with a friggin hose sticking out of the rear cylinder bank....

help?

 

[gmail]

destroy the hose till you get it down to nothing then use a screw driver and hammer to get jammed inside the hole in the compression tester fitting then unscrew it that way...

in the future use oil and only tighten with 1 hand in a twisting motion until the hose starts to twist slightly.

never think it has to be crazy tight its only a compression test.

 

[Off Road SHO]

Yeah, what Gmail said. Cut off the hose about as close to the valve cover as possible. Spray some PB blaster or plain old oil into the well to **** up the threads. Get a pair of long handled needle nose pliers. Push the remaining rubber hose aside with a screwdriver and pinch and turn out the threaded fitting.

When you get it out go get a double ended 1/8" hose barb and put it back together AND crimp on the fitting better.

Tom

 

[vortex2450]

destroy the hose till you get it down to nothing then use a screw driver and hammer to get jammed inside the hole in the compression tester fitting then unscrew it that way...

in the future use oil and only tighten with 1 hand in a twisting motion until the hose starts to twist slightly.

never think it has to be crazy tight its only a compression test.

Yeah, what Gmail said. Cut off the hose about as close to the valve cover as possible. Spray some PB blaster or plain old oil into the well to **** up the threads. Get a pair of long handled needle nose pliers. Push the remaining rubber hose aside with a screwdriver and pinch and turn out the threaded fitting.

When you get it out go get a double ended 1/8" hose barb and put it back together AND crimp on the fitting better.

Tom

Both of you seem to know exactly what to do, can I assume it's safe to say that's from personal experience?

Gmail, your method seems rather violent, granted I'm rather aggravated with the situation and would love nothing more than to take some hefty swing at this with a heavy hammer and though it will do the job wouldn't that also pose the chance of damaging the fitting to the point of uselessness?

I want to piece this thing back together so I can use it again.

Tom, what you said painted a crystal clear picture of what I need to do, I wish the thing would've gotten stuck in the front bank so I wouldn't have to pull the intake. I'm not weary of the work but this will be the 3rd time I've pulled it in less than 6 weeks on the same set of intake gaskets and I want to keep them useful for a little while longer

Thanks a ton, I will try your method in the morning tom (no offense to gmail of course). I trust you guys here better than the google results from countless thread in honda forums.

PS: Isn't it funny that most of the posts that I found online about people having this issue were in honda/civic oriented forums were most of those people don't believe in any punctuation of grammar?

it seems i'm gittng dummer ery dayyy...

EDIT: of course I would NEVER suggest that there is a correlation between stupidity and the average civic owner ...