Posted by pete 23 on January 24, 2015 at 10:17:06 from (74.33.82.15):
In Reply to: Re: spark plugs posted by The tractor vet on January 22, 2015 at 20:01:39:
Vet. Interesting. Also, I seem to remember that Autolite was Chrysler line of elec products before Ford got hold of them. On a little different story here, do you remember when Champion was doing all that advertising where they replaced the AC plugs in the Chevy's and gained so much performance. They were using the U style plug which is the aux gap plug. That plug died out pretty sudden if I remember right. IH put them in their pickups for a while . First one we sold, I could hear this spark jumping while I was servicing the engine. Took me quite a while but by pulling the boots off the spark plugs, I could see the spark jumping that aux gap inside of the porcelain. That solved that search but it was not too long and those plugs would increase that internal gap and then start misfiring or become impossible to start. After breaking a few plugs open you could see just how far that gap had increased. Had the same effect as pulling the wire and holding it a little ways from the plug to increase the intensity of the spark but too much is just too much gap.
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