S9723 offset 5/8 spark plug socket

[paramudduck]

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item...group_ID=19832&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog

Who else makes one of these? I have a sneaky hunch it is one of Snappies rebadged items.

I need one for my Blazer so I'm exploring the options.

 

[wrenchr]

Lisle maybe?? KD??

 

[Fedwrench]

I think Snap on makes it because it's not Blue Point branded. I remember this socket being discussed awhile back. I don't think another supplier was found.
Another idication that it's Snap on is the fact that Cornwell, Mac, and Matco don't sell it or a version of it.
You may be able to find a Kent Moore J tool version but, the Snap on model may be cheaper.

 

[paramudduck]

Well KD Lisle and OTC don't show any thing comparable. It still just don't feel Snap on to me.. But I've been wrong many times before.

A 30 plus dollar socket is just a bit of an overkill for my need. I just bought an 1990 Blazer and the No. 3 spark plug looks like OEM.

Well back to searching, I like digging through tool catalogs any way.

 

[Merkava_4]

My searches are coming up empty too. I'm thinking it could be a Snap-on produced item.

 

[paramudduck]

Like I said I've been wrong many times before. It may well be.

For some reason tho I keep thinking I've seen it some where else.

 

[Deafautotech]

My searches are coming up empty too. I'm thinking it could be a Snap-on produced item.

Hey... I own one and it is great!!! i just tune up my good friend's 2004 S-10 with 4.3L engine... it is hard to replace the #3 spark plug... but with that tool then it save me a day!!! i am glad that i bought it three years ago!!!! it is paid itself!!!



Snap on only made it... no one made it but i dont know about Kent-Moore???

 

[rsanter]

how about a standard socket, a cheap crowsfoot and some welding
you might be able to just weld a short section of an extension to the side as well

bob

 

[Deafautotech]

how about a standard socket, a cheap crowsfoot and some welding
you might be able to just weld a short section of an extension to the side as well

bob

forget it... too much hassle and waste time... i just pay cash for right tool and do right job instead bad design tools and dont do right job....

 

[paramudduck]

rsanter that may be what I end up doing as seldom as I will need it.

I think what's getting me is this nagging feeling I've seen one some where else.

If I had a couple of Blazers or S10's I'd have already ordered it. I just hate to spend that much for a one trick pony type of tool.

 

[paramudduck]

Deaf in a production environment I totally agree with you. But since I am retired and messing with this to pass time. I can spend a week messing around with different approaches easier then I can spend 35 dollars approx for a tool I may only use one time.

If the guy up the road decides to junk or sell his blazer I will buy the tool. With two of them I'll know it will be used. It was a repo deal dash torn out radio striped deal. Engine running all in good shape.

 

[ratchet_gear]

Why don't you just do what this guy did.

http://chevroletforum.com/m_61954/tm.htm

 

[Merkava_4]

paramudduck, have you ever bought anything from Snap-on?

Maybe it's time you pay your dues.

 

[paramudduck]

In approx total over the past 30 years... about 20,000 dollars worth. Of which thanks to a messy devorce I have about 12 pieces left.

MAC would be a larger amount of tools but lower cost. Former land lord was a machinist in Sabina.

So yep I've paid them. Fought with the drivers not wanting to honor the warrenty. Got 27 stitches across the hand where a brand new ratchet failed on the first use. Getting a spark plug out of a 1970 Mustang.

I may end up getting it. I just hate spending that on a one use tool. Even the catalog says it is only for the No 3 plug on a 4.3.

Tony, I tried a trick like that but using a Flex end SK ratcheting. This thing has the biggest heat shields I have ever seen on one of these. The shield keeps you from doing anything unless the wrench is straight out. Then it hits the steering.

 

[Merkava_4]

In approx total over the past 30 years... about 20,000 dollars worth. Of which thanks to a messy devorce I have about 12 pieces left.

That's just flat out depressing to hear that man. Seems like I heard somewhere that the courts cannot take your tools away because they fall under the category of livelihood.

 

[Uncle Buck]

I wouldn't pay $31.00 for that socket. I would cut the female end off of an old extension then weld it to the side of the appropriate socket and have the same ****** thing for zero dollars spent!

No question about it you have taken temper from the tools, voided any warranty (so use cheap/old stuff) but I bet my free tool would do the same thing as the $31.00 version!

Yup, that is the way I would do that if I needed that tool alright!

 

[paramudduck]

It was one of the cases where she cleaned out any and every thing she could sell.

I moved out, left the garage and tools locked. "Some one" broke in and acquired about 90k of items.

Police and judge ruled that nothing could be proven.

I didn't do wrenching a lot as a profession more as a hobby. But the nursing let me pursue it too well.

I think that experience is why I hate to invest too much in a limited use tool any more. Used to not think twice about phoning the local driver or catching him at the squad house and getting toys.

 

[engnerdan]

Like I said I've been wrong many times before. It may well be.

For some reason tho I keep thinking I've seen it some where else.

I bet you are thinking of the cheap chinese sensor sockets that were talked about I think a month ago. There is a O2 socket that looks just like the one you are looking at except for a small slot cut in the side.

-Dan

 

[paramudduck]

You know you, just may be right! I knew I'd seen that design before!

hholmberg. When I was young and helping on the farm. We probably made half of our specialty tools that way. Not pretty but they do the job just as well. I used to have a lot of items my grandfather bent welded or adapted to work on equipment.

 

[jimmycrackcorn]

I have gotten to that plug before without the tool. I use a regular hex end plug socket a long extention, a universal and a crow foot. You will have to jack up the front and get it through the wheel well......

 

[scofo]

Hey Duck, Jimmy Corn is correct,I've done many plugs on 4.3L in S-body trucks. No
special tools required. Let the wheel droop at full extension and go thru wheelwell. You
may find it helpful to raise the engine a bit if motor mounts are really fatiqued. Wood
block between floorjack and oilpan and one stroke no need to unbolt mount.

 

[ratchet_gear]

Paramudduck, might be a stupid question but are you trying to take it out from the engine bay or from the wheel well like Jimmycrackcorn said? Because if you are trying from the engine bay you are going to make it very very hard on yourself.

 

[ratchet_gear]

The first post that I had explaining one of the methods you could use really only works if you go though the wheel well. Sorry, just seen that it did not say to go through the wheel well.

 

[eschoendorff]

Why don't you just do what this guy did.

http://chevroletforum.com/m_61954/tm.htm

This is a great idea, but I thought that I saw that socket made by Sunex also somewhere....

-or-

Why not just buy a cheap socket and extension and weld something up? Those MIT sockets are great for just such projects... you'll probably have a whole $4.00 invested in the tool when you're done.

 

[ratchet_gear]

This is a great idea, but I thought that I saw that socket made by Sunex also somewhere....

-or-

Why not just buy a cheap socket and extension and weld something up? Those MIT sockets are great for just such projects... you'll probably have a whole $4.00 invested in the tool when you're done.

It would probably make it easier using a crow’s foot like you said instead of using a stubby ratcheting wrench. Attach it to the socket, put an extension on it and get more torque by being able to use a ratchet. By doing it this way you have the same design as the $31 Snap on socket.

 

[paramudduck]

Wow I got some discussion started. You know it never once occurred to me to try from the top. You would have to be the rubberman to do that.

scofo you may be right. I never thought about the mount being worn and letting the engine droop a little.

I'm still trying to visualize how you could go about it from the top. I'm 6'2'' and the top of the fender is at the bottom of my ribs.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

i don't think $31 is that big of a deal, is it?

i'm buying one and i've only ever seen two Blazers over here in London. but when i do have to do a #3 plug on a 4.3 it'll be worth the money.

 

[Deafautotech]

i don't think $31 is that big of a deal, is it?

i'm buying one and i've only ever seen two Blazers over here in London. but when i do have to do a #3 plug on a 4.3 it'll be worth the money.

i am agree.... it save me from mad or cussing a lot of time.... even i did few side jobs which it is paid itself...

 

[DavidtheDuke]

i don't think $31 is that big of a deal, is it?

i'm buying one and i've only ever seen two Blazers over here in London. but when i do have to do a #3 plug on a 4.3 it'll be worth the money.

Europeans mechanics could be getting SO @ almost half price now since the dollar is tanking like crazy, if they only get a friend to ship it to them from the US.

 

[Merkava_4]

It was one of the cases where she cleaned out any and every thing she could sell.

I moved out, left the garage and tools locked. "Some one" broke in and acquired about 90k of items.

Police and judge ruled that nothing could be proven.

That just makes me mad to read about that; the woman stole your tools to sell for cash. I should probably stop there.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

Europeans mechanics could be getting SO @ almost half price now since the dollar is tanking like crazy, if they only get a friend to ship it to them from the US.

That's exactly what i do. i buy the tools, i pay for them and then they are shipped to a friend of mine in Georgia. he in turn ships them to me. in small packages marked "gift" of course, don't want to pay import tax do i?

i can't buy directly from Snap-on US though, need a US credit card which i don't have, and my Snap-on UK account doesn't work with them. i'll find a way round that too though.