My little Nissan Sentra turned 100k miles a few weeks ago, and it's time to either get her serviced or do some of the stuff myself.
At the moment, I'm opting to learn more about the car and do a few things myself. First off is changing the spark plugs. It costs an arm and a leg to have it done, and the entire interwebs says it's an easy thing to do.
I'm here to prove the interwebs wrong.
I ordered some spark plugs (NGK Iridiums to those interested), and a GearWrench spark plug socket, which I foolishly thought would fit our crappy ratchet set. It doesn't. I spent a few minutes looking at the socket end with the square hole, and then looking at the broken ratchet with the round peg, and wondering how I could get them to fit together. No ideas struck.
So my first step is to buy a ratchet set that will fit this 5/8 socket. Which one do I buy? Will any GearWrench ratchet in a set do the trick? Do I need one that's 5/8?
At the moment, I'm opting to learn more about the car and do a few things myself. First off is changing the spark plugs. It costs an arm and a leg to have it done, and the entire interwebs says it's an easy thing to do.
I'm here to prove the interwebs wrong.
I ordered some spark plugs (NGK Iridiums to those interested), and a GearWrench spark plug socket, which I foolishly thought would fit our crappy ratchet set. It doesn't. I spent a few minutes looking at the socket end with the square hole, and then looking at the broken ratchet with the round peg, and wondering how I could get them to fit together. No ideas struck.
So my first step is to buy a ratchet set that will fit this 5/8 socket. Which one do I buy? Will any GearWrench ratchet in a set do the trick? Do I need one that's 5/8?