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Old Jan 12, 2013 | 09:55 AM
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I have never had a issue with MSD wires or using a litttle dab of diaelectric grease. I dont like tearing plug wires to take stuff apart.
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Old Jan 12, 2013 | 11:30 AM
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Crack the porclein on a plug?
What are the signs of cracked porcelain on a plug? I've never dealt with that so I'm curious
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Old Jan 12, 2013 | 11:44 AM
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Misfire especially under higher load
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Old Jan 13, 2013 | 01:29 PM
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MSD's are fine, burn't couple, stock orange AcDelco atm.
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Old Jan 13, 2013 | 04:35 PM
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My truck isn't throwing any codes so I doubt it's a misfire. Just pulse idk what's going on. Kinda depressing though. I guess I'll pull all the plugs when I get it back.
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Old Jan 15, 2013 | 03:08 AM
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I've seen such cases in where the metal part of the spark plug hitting the headers manifold creating small sparks easy to spot. That also may cause pulsing.
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Old Jan 15, 2013 | 05:46 AM
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zipties pull the plug wires off of the headers
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Old Jan 29, 2013 | 04:38 PM
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Well here's an update I took it to my buddy's at Tricare and they plugged it in to there Snap on Modis. My buddy told me it was a misfire on cylinder 3, so I pulled the plug and it was missing a good chunk of cermaic, so I went to advance to get me a new plug. Well you would think when you buy AC Delco you would get an AC Delco plug. Well good thing I looked becuase tey tried to give a ford motor craft plug in a AC Delco box. All I could do was laugh any way here's a pic of the plug. ( not letting me update at the time will try again later)

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Old Jan 29, 2013 | 04:49 PM
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BAM! Told you!
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Old Jan 31, 2013 | 04:20 PM
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lol. poor counter guys at that advance. my other job is advance auto parts and i tell people CHECK THE DAMN BOXES before accepting a return or selling it. ive had people swap their motorcraft USED plugs in the DELCO box saying they were not used and wants a refund. HA! good luck pulling one on me. same thing where if ya drop a plug, which i do... i pull the scanner and mark it defect because one time i didnt and the guy came back mad that it cracked when i dropped it but still sold it. another way to tell of cracks is they show up as burn marks from arcing if you take it out and look.
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