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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tazza" data-source="post: 18569" data-attributes="member: 82">You don't need a special socket as such, you just need a deep one. I don't know what size it is though sorry but I'm pretty sure its metric being Japanese.The best adapter for the glow plug hole is an old glow plug! Drill the tip and guts out and weld it up to an adapter. This does assume you have a spare plug to wreck....I had a look at my dads 453 yesterday, i thought you couldn't access the injector pump but when you lift the cab its rite there. If you can remove the injectors and hook a tube line to a delivery valve and hook up an injector on the end, spin the engine over and check the spray. I don't know how you will go as i have done it on V1702's and V2203's with heaps of room out the back. Your goal is a thin cone with no droplets forming on the tip of the injector.His machine needs 3 axles doing as the bearings are dead. I'm really not looking forward to doing this! I have enough projects of my own on the go.I'm sure you will get your beast up and running again!</blockquote>