[V8] spark plug pulsing????

Ingo Rautenberg ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 15:39:36 PDT 2007


Ron, that's just not right.  What brand/model were they?

On Oct 16, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Ron Wainwright wrote:

> Well I swapped the wires & there still was no change.
> So I pulled the 1st offending plug & found that if you
> grab the top of the spark plug...& grabed the threaded
> body of the plug...it spun 8-0...it's not supposed to
> do that I said to myself.
>  So I pulled all 8 spark plugs & 4 of the 8 were bad.
>  So I boxed them up & pulled the ones from my old
> heads...cause they were only like 1 thopusand miles
> old....& cleaned them off & checked the gap &
> installed them & all is as it should be.
>  So I will bring back all 8 of the new plugs I just
> bought & installed & get a fresh set of 8.
>  I tell you though I WILL check each & everyone of
> them before I even walk out of the store.
>
>  Thanx for all who tossed me suggestions.
>
>  Ron
>
> --- Tony and Lillie <tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Ron,
>>
>> Easy way to check the plugs. Pull and swap the front
>> one pass side with the
>> 2nd one. See if the problem moves. Do the same with
>> the rest as well.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Tony Hoffman
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ron Wainwright" <ron_01056 at yahoo.com>
>> To: "Tony and Lillie" <tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net>
>> Cc: <v8 at audifans.com>
>> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 9:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: [V8] spark plug pulsing????
>>
>>
>>> No the car feels powerfull!!! Rev's quiet freeley!
>>> What I mean by pulsing is......using this pic for
>>> refrence.....
>>>
>>
> http://www.motorgeek.com/phpBB2/files/audi_pics_900_648.jpg
>>>
>>> ....today being the 1st day I really got to drive
>> the
>>> car like I stole it, I was outside & had the hood
>>> up...just making sure everything was doing what it
>> was
>>> supposed to be doing. Mind you just had this whole
>>> motor apart & put it back together with some VERY
>>> ported & polished heads...yada yada yada....just
>>> keeping a close eye on things. When I went to move
>> the
>>> #1 spark plug wire into the chanell cause it
>> wasn't in
>>> there good. 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.
>>>
>>> I get that from the pass side 2nd & 3rd plug/wire.
>> &
>>> the last nearest the firewall on the driver side.
>>>
>>> I talked to someone who said I may have 3 bad
>> plugs.
>>> I did remove the 2nd plug wire from the spark plug
>> &
>>> tried to re-torque it....but it seemed like it was
>>> when I had just torqued them all down.
>>>
>>> I'm going to pull the offending plug wires & swap
>>> them with some spairs & see what happens. If it
>>> doesn't change then I'll pull the 3 plugs & see if
>> the
>>> porcalean is cracked..or something defective with
>> the
>>> plug. But I took a look at each & everyone of them
>>> before I put them in to check the gap...& they all
>>> looked fine. I didn't man handle them while
>> putting
>>> them in...so I'm sure I got my base covered there.
>>>
>>> Oh well I'll take a look tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Thanx
>>> Ron
>>
>>
>
>
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