This is a nasty subject around here, after just
getting the spit we found that a part of the air
cleaner bolt had gone to the #2 piston, cracking it
and a chunk of piston wall. So was the start of
rebuilding the engine. Learned the hard way about
having crank turned while we were at it. So this was
I would suspect that Fred wasn't inherently meaning the piston itself
struck the plug, but that the piston is the moving part that would cause
the strike.
Yes, it's quite possible for things like a broken bolt to go down the
intake, get sucked into a cylinder, bang around, and then get thrown out
>From: "Nolan Penney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>If you mean the outer electrode had gotten smashed down onto the center
>electrode, something hit it in the cylinder.
>
Thanks to Fred and Nolan for their replies. It WAS the outer electrode
that was bent down and the consensus is that something hit it
What do you mean by "the gap had completely disappeared"?
If you mean the outer electrode had gotten smashed down onto the center
electrode, something hit it in the cylinder.
If you mean the inner electrode seems to have slipped down, that I've
seen with the Bosch platinums, several times. I've
I took a moderate length trip in the spit yesterday, about 100 miles round
trip.
On the way home, the engine suddenly starting missing which I traced to a
bad
spark plug. The gap had completely disappeared with the electrodes making
contact. This is a Bosch platinum spark plug that was last gap
