Yea, I've seen that problem before. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
Do you have the boot totally stripped off, and now it's just the wire stuck to the plug or is there still booty involved?
A pic of what's left would be helpfull. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
When I know the wire is borked, I just cut the fawker off flush and then use the long, curved tip needle nose pliers to terrorise what's left of the boot enough to get a deep well socket on the plug. Harbour freight has em, and they call them hose pliers.
Don't worry about breaking the plug, it won't hurt anything.
In fact, I've seen vandalistic flat rate mooks just break em off when they see this problem, and blow out the remains with compressed air. Then they loosen the remains with a deep well socket,and extract what's left with a magnet on a stick. It's ugly, but it works, for them. (I'm always worried a piece of the ceramic will end up in the chamber)
At any rate, please check this head out carefully!
Depending on your power goals, spending deep coin on machine work trying to save an overheated head just doesn't make econimical sense.
If it got hot enough to melt the plug boots, it's a good bet there's going to be other issues that preclude it from being a good candidate for machine work, at least in a motor that will see high cylinder pressures and severe duty.
A good core from a low mile normally aspirated motor makes an excellent core to build on, and in the long run can save you serious time, money, and grief.
