Are plugs ruined?
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Are plugs ruined?
Simple question.
When a rotary floods and fouls the spark plugs, are those plugs reusable if cleaned or dried?
I always assumed it was common sense they would be good. However, I had some old plugs I pulled out that fouled out from flooding that I put in my car and it wouldn't start on the fouled plugs(they where completely dry). Put new plugs in and fired right up.
When a rotary floods and fouls the spark plugs, are those plugs reusable if cleaned or dried?
I always assumed it was common sense they would be good. However, I had some old plugs I pulled out that fouled out from flooding that I put in my car and it wouldn't start on the fouled plugs(they where completely dry). Put new plugs in and fired right up.
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It may not be a leaky injector, but low compression. Have you done a compression check yet? Another way for you to get the engine to start most of the time is, detach the relay under the steering wheel colum and attach it back on as soon as it starts firing up.
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Simple question.
When a rotary floods and fouls the spark plugs, are those plugs reusable if cleaned or dried?
I always assumed it was common sense they would be good. However, I had some old plugs I pulled out that fouled out from flooding that I put in my car and it wouldn't start on the fouled plugs(they where completely dry). Put new plugs in and fired right up.
When a rotary floods and fouls the spark plugs, are those plugs reusable if cleaned or dried?
I always assumed it was common sense they would be good. However, I had some old plugs I pulled out that fouled out from flooding that I put in my car and it wouldn't start on the fouled plugs(they where completely dry). Put new plugs in and fired right up.
They're also completely reusable even after the worst fouling, but you have to clean them properly. This can only be done with a bead blaster. They look and run like new after a good bead blasting and a flush with solvent to get the glass beads off.
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**** bead blasting - glass particles can lodge in the tip and then loosen into the engine.
KAPOW.
**** solvents - they can make it worse.
Get a torch - propane, acetylene, etc. - and burn the **** out of the tips.
Make sure they COOL down before handling them with your hands.
-Ted
KAPOW.
**** solvents - they can make it worse.
Get a torch - propane, acetylene, etc. - and burn the **** out of the tips.
Make sure they COOL down before handling them with your hands.
-Ted
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**** bead blasting - glass particles can lodge in the tip and then loosen into the engine.
KAPOW.
**** solvents - they can make it worse.
Get a torch - propane, acetylene, etc. - and burn the **** out of the tips.
Make sure they COOL down before handling them with your hands.
-Ted
KAPOW.
**** solvents - they can make it worse.
Get a torch - propane, acetylene, etc. - and burn the **** out of the tips.
Make sure they COOL down before handling them with your hands.
-Ted
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