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Spark Plug Eater!!!

Sapperfire
May 13th, 2010, 09:58 PM
This thing has eaten 4 sets of plugs within 6 months, what gives, I have MoCrafts in there now, and I'm guessing that it's the prob, misfiring real bad when slightly leaning on accelerator, but seems to steady up closer to wot...same as it did when I fried the E3s..

NoLimit95
May 13th, 2010, 10:28 PM
Give the Autolite 764's a try gapped at .054

jt351
May 13th, 2010, 10:38 PM
This thing has eaten 4 sets of plugs within 6 months, what gives, I have MoCrafts in there now, and I'm guessing that it's the prob, misfiring real bad when slightly leaning on accelerator, but seems to steady up closer to wot...same as it did when I fried the E3s..

Sounds like the plugs arent the problem, why do you think they are bad???? Are there any burn lines down the plug, you know the outside where the wire pushes on to. If you are getting burn lines than your wires are bad, replacing the plugs are only temp fix until the wire skips again ruining the plug, or you have a bad coil. Plugs are simple and give very little problem.

Sapperfire
May 13th, 2010, 10:52 PM
My wires are only a couple months old, I have not pulled any plugs yet, just noticed it started misfiring today, feels exactly like it did last time when I had bad plugs,
and our plug gap is .052 - .056

Icarus
May 14th, 2010, 01:02 AM
What kind of wires did you put on it? Sure they're in the right firing order too?

MediumD
May 14th, 2010, 04:57 AM
And what exactly do you mean by 'eating' plugs? Are you seeing visual damage on the plugs, or are you having a miss that you've fixed 4 times with new plugs?

Sapperfire
May 14th, 2010, 01:05 PM
I'm having a mis that I've fixed with new plugs...
However I didn't actually pop the hood and look this time, just figured it was the same thing again..i went to my shop today, all it was, was one of the wires came loose from the coil, the clips are broke on a couple of the
and I guess this one just decided to pop off, so I need to warranty out those 2 wires that have broken clips

I have Vision 10.2mm in blue

Sapperfire
May 15th, 2010, 01:29 PM
Fixed wires, still ran like crap, pulled plugs, all burned, checked their gap... (.043) DOH , CEL codes both O2 sensors rich...fuel fouled

LaserSVT
May 15th, 2010, 01:40 PM
Not for nuttin but I am 98% sure we checked the gap on them and had to open them all to like .053 or .054 cause they were at .045 or something like that.

Coulda just regapped them and cleaned the plugs.

Staffamerica74
May 15th, 2010, 08:34 PM
Umm have you tried coil packs, when they start going it will miss like crazy.

Sapperfire
May 15th, 2010, 08:41 PM
Give the Autolite 764's a try gapped at .054

No, autolite is a generic brand...nu uh

it was the plugs, fuel fouled due to mis-gap

NoLimit95
May 15th, 2010, 09:35 PM
Autolite 764 coppers are one of the best plugs you can get for the Mark but what you get is your choice. Many of us are running 764's .054 is the correct gap.

Aquabrit
May 15th, 2010, 09:38 PM
Yup, never had a problem with Autolites. Cheap, too!

LaserSVT
May 15th, 2010, 09:44 PM
Only plugs I stay away from is Champion. Never had an issue with Autolites.

Sapperfire
May 15th, 2010, 09:49 PM
Badgers!

LaserSVT
May 15th, 2010, 09:53 PM
No, we are talking about spark plugs....... BTW, whos Sarah?

Sapperfire
May 15th, 2010, 10:30 PM
The Blonde that brought my k-member to your house

LaserSVT
May 15th, 2010, 10:41 PM
Oh, yeah shes cute. She can rub me. :p



BTW, you are sofa king we todd did

Sapperfire
May 15th, 2010, 10:52 PM
Quote pirate

LaserSVT
May 15th, 2010, 10:57 PM
Quote pirate
Uh, you stole that from me butt pirate.

XLRVIII
May 15th, 2010, 11:10 PM
Uh, you stole that from me butt pirate.

a pirate stole what from ye butt?

ground_zero298
May 16th, 2010, 10:03 AM
Think Geno and some others run the autolites gapped at .048. If your burning plugs you have another issue somewhere else. Those plugs are not going bad on their own. Unless you gapped all 4 sets at .045

Changing the plugs that many times is not a good thing either. Aluminum threads start to fatigue in the head. Raises the chances of a plug blow out.

Sapperfire
May 16th, 2010, 10:57 AM
That's why you do it with the motor cold

ground_zero298
May 16th, 2010, 12:34 PM
Don't matter if its warm, cold, or hot. Everyone changes plugs at different temps, all have had blow outs. It's aluminum. It will fail. Every vehicle I've done was hot when I changed them. I've only had one plug blow out in 17 years of owning vehicles.

It was a 32v 4.6

Point I was making is is you need to find out what is fouling your plugs and fix it so you don't keep pulling plugs in and out. Every time you torque them you raise the chance for a thread failure. The time sert kit is not that fun, it works, but not a good time.


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