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Was taking my DS7 out of hibernation today. I had kicked her over several times on a handful of sessions, in order to get her to wake up. On what was (coincidently) my last kick, the kicker seemed to bind for a second. I then heard a light "crack" sound as the kicker freed up and followed through. She popped right off and I ran her for a minute or so before shutting off. As I was picking up tools I noticed the puddle of oil under the kicker. Upon further investigation, I realized the engine cover was blown out around the kicker shaft. My questions are... What caused this in the first place? And what, if anything, should I be looking at besides replacing the cover? TIA

Do I need a specific socket or sparkplug to fit these heads? The socket I have been using (with the stock heads) is too big to fit into the Ottoco head.
Now to be fair, I'm using an SAE socket (13/16 iirc) because I don't have a metric socket big enough.

So... do I simply need to get off my ass and buy the correct metric size socket? And what is it, 22mm?
Do I need a different size plug?
Or is there a special narrow wall socket?

TIA  ;)