So where do you store your spare outboard spark plug

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This question is not the most important :).... but where do you keep yours? I have just got a new spare plug. Should I keep it in the car door with a few other old tools or on the boat? I have a nasty feeling I will forget I have bought one. If I store it at home the same. My journey in the tender is always short enough that I can manage with oars, so I don't take a mini tool kit in the dinghy.
 
FairweatherDave said:
This question is not the most important :).... but where do you keep yours? I have just got a new spare plug. Should I keep it in the car door with a few other old tools or on the boat? I have a nasty feeling I will forget I have bought one. If I store it at home the same. My journey in the tender is always short enough that I can manage with oars, so I don't take a mini tool kit in the dinghy.
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I have a plastic box of service spares in a dry locker in the boat. It contains impellers, fuel filters, fuses etc. I'd keep it in there. :)

Richard
 
Fair cop. But I usually do anything on the outboard at home if there is a problem, and if there is a problem there is a good chance it is when I am trying to get to my boat and still close to the car. :)
 
FairweatherDave said:
This question is not the most important :).... but where do you keep yours? I have just got a new spare plug. Should I keep it in the car door with a few other old tools or on the boat? I have a nasty feeling I will forget I have bought one. If I store it at home the same. My journey in the tender is always short enough that I can manage with oars, so I don't take a mini tool kit in the dinghy.
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I keep spare plugs for the main outboard in the boat tool kit. Never actually needed to change the plugs though in 30 years

I keep spare plugs for the Seagull I use on the tender at home. I did once fit a new(er) plug I think the old one ended up in the lawn mower.
 
Sounds like you need three or four spare spark plugs so you can store them in all possible places places.

I don't have a spare spark plug or a spare anything for my outboard , other than fuel. But a spare shear pin is on its way to me.
 
MartynG said:
Sounds like you need three or four spare spark plugs so you can store them in all possible places places.

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No! That would spoil this challenge. And, as Oscar Wilde said, to lose one spark plug is a misfortune, to lose three or four looks like carelessness :).............

(BTW My spare shear pins are in a moulding inside the outboard casing. )
 
I keep spare plugs for the Seagull I use on the tender at home.[/QUOTE]

That is perhaps the sensible winner because had I had one to hand it would have saved a lot of grief diagnosing things recently. However the car is always nearby. It is just that the car door pockets really do keep things I forget I own.
 
In a ziplock bag with a plug spanner and stored inside the top cover of the outboard. Well sprayed with WD 40. The bag also contains a backup kill switch clip, a mall Leatherman type tool and a length of fuel hose with a piece of brass tube as an insert.

I have limped home holding a dripping split fuel line onto the OB before. Tohatsu fuel line has no internal scaffolding and splits easily. [Note to self replace with better fuel line .]
 
I keep a spare plug and a couple of shear pins with the ready use outboard toolkit, on the big boat. Mea Culpa, I often forget to take it with me when going ashore in the dinghy, but then, if I have to row back, it's no-one's fault but mine.
 
I made a bag out of PVC-backed acrylic canvas that's fastened to the inside of the dinghy transom. It has pockets inside for a torch, a knife, a repair clamp, a tiny bottle of 2-stroke oil, a hand-flare, and the outboard tool-kit. The tool-kit also contains the spare plug, in its box inside two zip-lock bags. The outer bag also contains a stainless wire and padlock for securing the dinghy and engine if deemed necessary, and a length of 10mm line for general purpose use when the painter won't suffice. I know that sounds like a lot of stuff, but the bag is only about an inch thick, maybe an inch and a half across the bottom where the rope piles up, and it's completely unobtrusive against the transom below the engine clamps. It stays attached in the dinghy when it's rolled up and stowed, so it never gets forgotten or deliberately left behind.

I've needed to use the toolkit a couple of times, and I've changed the plug afloat a few times too although it possibly didn't actually help solve the problem (dying ignition system, since replaced). I use the rope from time to time, and also the torch although I'd probably remember to take a loose one if the dinghy didn't have its own. Touch wood not needed the repair clamp or the flare yet :)

Pete
 
Thanks all. Going to keep one at home with the two stroke oil etc and break my rule :) with another in the spares box on the boat. Will of course update you if I ever have to use it :o
 
TQA said:
In a ziplock bag with a plug spanner and stored inside the top cover of the outboard. Well sprayed with WD 40. The bag also contains a backup kill switch clip, a mall Leatherman type tool and a length of fuel hose with a piece of brass tube as an insert.

I have limped home holding a dripping split fuel line onto the OB before. Tohatsu fuel line has no internal scaffolding and splits easily. [Note to self replace with better fuel line .]
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Spare pull-cord?
 
I have a Tupperware box which is supposed to travel with me in my bag. It contains spares for the outboard and a set of keys for the boat. The only time I wanted to change the plug I realised I had no spanner...

Rob.
 
VicS said:
I keep spare plugs for the Seagull I use on the tender at home. I did once fit a new(er) plug I think the old one ended up in the lawn mower.
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Seagulls, like other vintage machinery, seem to respond well occasion fresh parts. They don't have to be new, just rested awhile.
 
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