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Re: Ready to push it off a cliff..... car wont start. [Re: RapidRobert] #268809
03/28/09 12:38 AM
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I wouldn't waste time cleaning them, just put a new set in... My experience is once they foul, they are gone....

Re: Ready to push it off a cliff..... car wont start. [Re: RapidRobert] #268810
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They're out and cleaned (the plugs), but I have to run off to a prior engagement. Unfortunately, the plugs wont have time to get reinstalled for another 24hrs.

But I WILL post the results, good or bad.


Re: Ready to push it off a cliff..... car wont start. [Re: minivan] #268811
03/28/09 12:43 AM
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I know I should just toss a new set in, but over here they're about $4 a pop, so I don't want to put a new set in just to find out that it wasn't the problem....Cheer

Re: Ready to push it off a cliff..... car wont start. [Re: minivan] #268812
03/28/09 01:01 AM
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I wouldn't waste time cleaning them, just put a new set in... My experience is once they foul, they are gone.


unless you have a glassbeader in your garage


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Re: Ready to push it off a cliff..... car wont start. [Re: RapidRobert] #268813
03/28/09 09:36 AM
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clean then litghtly and get the dry. I think they were just wet fouled... And it may be worth buying two sets at once...lol.


Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.
Re: Ready to push it off a cliff..... car wont start. [Re: moper] #268814
03/28/09 09:55 AM
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do you have a ballist resistor?

Re: Ready to push it off a cliff..... car wont start. [Re: RapidRobert] #268815
03/28/09 12:57 PM
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I wouldn't waste time cleaning them, just put a new set in... My experience is once they foul, they are gone.


unless you have a glassbeader in your garage



once they get soaked like that, you get a sneak path down the porcelan to ground so they dont fire.

best bet is a glass bead blast but that kinda ruins the plug and rounds the sharp edges you need.

might try though. i would replace them and start a new with GOOD plugs

Re: Ready to push it off a cliff..... car wont start. [Re: aarcuda] #268816
03/28/09 01:30 PM
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I should have bought a snowmobile that was a couple of years old because of this. He had fouled a plug. Pulled them both and cleaned them, put them back in and still could not get it to run right. Cleaned both carbs, re cleaned both plugs and replaced the coil pack and plug wire caps. Still would not hit right on the mag side cylinder. He finally gave up and pushed it into the corner for the year. Somebody talked the cheap b-tard into buying a brand new set of plugs the next fall. Against his will he bought them, put them in and fired it up. Been driving it ever since. That was a hard lesson learned for both of us. I would not buy it thinking it had a bad CDI box or magneto. He wanted $300 for a $3K sled. A 3 dollar plug fixed it.

Re: Ready to push it off a cliff..... car wont start. [Re: Posest] #268817
03/28/09 04:56 PM
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OK, so I'm heading out the door to go to a Mopar show 'n' shine (not in my car ). If I have the opportunity, I'll stop on the way home and buy some new plugs. Guess it wouldn't hurt to have a 'spare' set anyway.

I'll update later.


Re: Ready to push it off a cliff..... car wont start. [Re: Damned67] #268818
03/28/09 11:43 PM
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OK, store I stopped at didn't have the correct plugs (I know, this place makes AutoZone look like a parts store!), so finished cleaning the old ones up as best I could and reinstalled them....
It runs!!! Fired off on the first crank.

Re: Ready to push it off a cliff..... car wont start. [Re: Damned67] #268819
03/29/09 12:18 AM
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It runs!!! Fired off on the first crank.


that wasn't too bad now was it


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Re: Ready to push it off a cliff..... car wont start. [Re: RapidRobert] #268820
03/29/09 01:05 AM
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Hey, Happy Birthday.....

And, no, it wasn't too bad, just wish I had have pulled the plugs earlier.
Cheers

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