I am the MASTER!
All Machines bow before me!
That F'in spark plug is out and the threads in the head are still in!
WOOT ! WOOT !
A carefully mixed blend * of Carb Cleaner, Penetrating Oil, WD-40 and Electrical Contact Cleaner and much back-and-forthh-a-little-at-a-time wrench work got it out.
Also a fair amount of patience was involved letting it soak in between 1/4 turns...always tough for a do-it-now personality...
* = in other words, I kept spraying various volatile and poisonous aerosol fluids down around the spark plug hole hole until it was tough to breath under the hood or anywhere near the car anymore.
Oh, well, did a good job on the throttle body clean, replaced the left side plug terminals with the right ones, put the new plug (greased) into the hole, topped off the fluids and got her all buttoned back up. She runs really really smooth now...so off to SMOG check, actually found a guy still open, it passed smog easy. : ))
Only took all f'in day for basically a tune -up and smog check. #1 Goal for today completed. Who knew it would be like this?
Git 'er done.
Vehicle rant / celebration over. Thank you for listening.