March 13, 200719 yr My 92 recently started running rough. Swapped new wires on, was good for a few trips, but the roughness came back. Decided to do the rest, cap & rotor, plugs. Well, I discovered that it had a set of Bosch platinums in it. They must have been in for quite a while. The engine was originally in our 86 that was totaled. Eventually it was moved to the brown 88, when it's engine overheated badly. That was a good number of years ago. Once the brown car died from rust, I had the good engine sitting in the garage, and a VERY leaky engine in the 92, so it got swapped into the 92. The Bosch plugs never ran good in my 90, pinged like crazy. I had to take them out. But they hadn't caused any trouble in the above engine. Weird. I have been using NGK plugs & wires only for quite a while. How it was running with these busted up ones is a surprise. 2 looked like the almost normal one. The electrode on the right one is burned down into the shadow, just a piece of ceramic left near the tip.
March 13, 200719 yr yep, that'll cause issues. reminds me a friends' ford econobox... probably hadn't had the plugs changed in a long time. The gap was, oh, 3/16" - 1/4" After new plugs and new wires, the gas mileage jumped by 5-10mpg
March 13, 200719 yr yep, that'll cause issues. reminds me a friends' ford econobox... probably hadn't had the plugs changed in a long time. The gap was, oh, 3/16" - 1/4" After new plugs and new wires, the gas mileage jumped by 5-10mpg OUR e-150 never got better than 10 mpg.. but a 351 windsor will do that :-p
March 13, 200719 yr oh yea, now I remember what it was! They had a Ford escort... so it should get better mileage than an e-150
March 13, 200719 yr I suggest you to Use the NGK´s BPR6EY11... the ones with the "Y" Cut... Those Work Great on EA Engined Subies...
March 13, 200719 yr Yeah, I run NGKs only in my Subes- I've only seen plugs that bad once, and that was in a Chevy Astro that was about ten years old at the time, with ~160k on it......... And original AC non-platinum plugs.
March 14, 200719 yr oh yea, now I remember what it was! They had a Ford escort... so it should get better mileage than an e-150 LOL, you said econobox, I thought you meant Econoline, what they call the fullsize van... E-150, Econoline 150.. duh, can we say miscommoonikayshun?
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