[V8] spark plug pulsing????

Kent McLean kentmclean at comcast.net
Tue Oct 16 02:07:25 PDT 2007


Ron Wainwright wrote:
> So I put my hand ontop of the 2nd plug
> wire top from the front..it felt like someone was
> poking my hand with there finger. So I pressed down a
> little harder cause I thought maybe the plug wire
> wasn't fully pressed in..well thats when I could
> actually hear a knocking noise comming from the cavern
> were the plug is.

Some of my thoughts...  loose spark plugs (they sometimes unscrew 
themselves on the I-5 engines), long-reach plugs hitting the tops
of the pistons, loose rod bolts/pins causing a knock you can feel 
through the spark plug.

-- 
Kent McLean
'91 200 TQA #1, for sale
'91 200 TQA #2, no name yet
'94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy", up in smoke



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