DaveT Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebisko Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Well, I've never personally had plugs that bad, but, yeah, that'll do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooziewhatsit Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daeron Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooziewhatsit Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 oh yea, now I remember what it was! They had a Ford escort... so it should get better mileage than an e-150 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loyale 2.7 Turbo Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 I suggest you to Use the NGK´s BPR6EY11... the ones with the "Y" Cut... Those Work Great on EA Engined Subies... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4x4_Welder Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daeron Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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