I was just wondering how many miles you think are left in this plug if I clean and re-gap it.



I just thought you might get a charge out of that one. It seems that we could all benefit somewhat if we'd just <h1>lighten up a little!</h1>

Maybe spring won't get here soon enough....

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vader a little preventive maintance goes a long way.

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Try a little J-B Weld or the fix all solution Duct Tape.

 

Ain't nothing that Super Glue Gel won't fix

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You know, this post got me thinkin'...

Where does all that voltage go?

I know it jumps the gap, but then where? I didn't think it went back the way it came, but I also didn't think it just dissapated in the engine block either. So.. ??? heh

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Why clean and regap? It looks fine to me!

 

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The above suggestions and a little POR-15 will do wonders.

 

it looks great man just use some scoth tape!!!! that'll fix anything!!! to clean them try wd-40!!! how the f*** did you do that any way i mean....dammmmmn!!!!!!

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I've magnified this plug picture a 100 times and what I have discovered is that this black burned up area actually contains an incinerated 5.0 Mustang door handle!!!

 

The car that came out of obviously still ran, so I guess it's still good...

Looks like somebody needs to fix the coolant leak that made the shell rust through. Then you could just epoxy it back together, put it in, and it should be good for another 100,000 mile tune-up interval!

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"If it moves and it isn't supposed to, duct tape it. If it doesn't move and it's supposed to, WD-40 it."

 

Jeez im surprised you got that out in only two pieces... :P

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Did somebody say Elmer's? Vader I find your lack of faith disturbing - any decent garden-variety intergalactic warlord could just "use the force" and make his own plugs out of 1' square former crustangs...

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And if it still won't move, flip the oxygen **** up to "CUT", blast it until it's white hot, and beat the ever-lovin' beejeezus out of it with a BF HAMMER.

That's right by cracky - hammer, don't hurt it.

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HAHAHAHA - it's hammertime!!
and then spray with wd-40, because here, we're all too legit to spit.

 

I'm with I ROCK, Use the force Vader.

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Actually the spark jumps from the block up into the plugs then up the wires to the distributer then to the coil. Since it is isolated at the coil the only place it goes is into a reverse induction and some emi/rmi.

 

Joel,

Actually, the conventional theory of electron flow would indicate that the spark would travel as you describe - from negative to positive. However, don't overlook the fact that the coil is essentially a transformer operating on pulsed DC as opposed to AC (which is really quite the same thing as far as the coil is concerned).

Regardless of the current, the collapsing magnetic field around a conductor will induce a current in a direction opposite that of the direction of the current used to build the magnetic field. (Remember the left-hand rule of thumb for inductors?)

Because of this, you should remember that the secondary voltage/current of the coil is actually phased in reverse of the primary voltage/current. The center terminal of the coil becomes highly negative, to the range of 15KV or higher, and the "grounded" side of the coil secondary winding is actually at a positive potential compared to the ungrounded end of the winding. This causes the induced current to flow from the coil center terminal, along the distibutor paths, through the spark plug wire and plug center electrode, to the more positive ground electrode.

I just thought that maybe you forgot your elementary inductor/transformer theory. It doesn't make a great deal of difference in an ignition system, but it becomes very important in high voltage/large KVA commercial substations.

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Ahh.. Yes! The power souce is interupted and the field collapses inducing a reverse charge. I forgot all about that. Thats right up there with hysteresis and eddy currents.