Irwin Tools Hanson Extractor 11135ZR Review

Bought a set of straight grooves to help remove a bad spark plug. I was installing new spark plugs on my ML63 AMG (M156) when I was applying too much torque and one of the spark plugs broke in half leaving a thread in the head (the clicking is the worst). I searched the internet for solutions and found this set, I figured why not try it, still better than $5000 pulling heads on an AMG. Shipping speed was great, shipping from US to Saudi Arabia took 5 days. The next day I woke up early in the…

This set is amazing. I rounded the head of the external torx screw in my motor. This set worked exceptionally well to remove. Here is my process. First I cut off the head of the screw with a dremel. Second, I made a dot in the center of the bolt with a hole punch and hit it hard with a hammer (a heavy one works best). Alternatively, if you don't have a hammer drill, you can use the smallest drill bit in this set to make the starting hole. Or you can use a Dremel tool to create a notch (like a…

First of all I would like to say that these size 5 extractors especially helped me to get rid of the jam. This easily saved me over $1,000 at the store to get the heads out. This allowed the threaded portion of the spark plug to be unscrewed in less than 15 minutes (without soaking the Parts Blaster overnight). I tried spiral extractors first but couldn't get them to bite and pull. Since the threads expand through the spiral, this did not help. So I searched the internet and found these. Wow…