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Old 08-11-2003, 06:54 PM   #1
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I had quite a thing happen to me today. I was driving through town and suddenly my car was dying!! It wouldn't accelerate at all, just kind of jut down the road. My check engine light would come and then go off, then on again and off again. I was able to limp home and open the hood and saw that one of the wring plugs for the sparkplugs had come off! I took a closer look and found that it had been blown off! The end of the sparkplug was still stuck in the wring end. I got the spark plug out and was able to put it in the rubber end and take the connector out and screw it back on. Put the spark plug back in and baby runs fine now. Has anyone ever had this happen before!?!?

As and added question/concern there was grim on the rubber wiring and end of sparkplug that was not there before. I checked all the sparkplugs and found them to be loose. So I tightened them back up again. What is going on, does anyone have an idea? Did I just not tighten them on enough? I installed new plugs three weeks ago (no OEM).
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Old 08-11-2003, 07:20 PM   #2
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Was this before or after your detonation problem from your other thread? I had a spark plug loosen and back out of my block once (that was fun ) and I've had my plug wires (Magnecore at the time) blow off for no really good reason- I went back to stock wires to the betterment of my car's happiness .


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Old 08-11-2003, 08:54 PM   #3
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I had a Legacy EJ22 do that once. I thought the engine was dead the noise was so bad. It was a lease so I had it towed to the dealer. They put the plug back in. Yup no tight enough on the install. They got that crush washer on the plugs?
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Old 08-11-2003, 09:40 PM   #4
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Well my cars been knock knock knocking for a while now.

Yeah it does have the washer on them. I got nervous when I was installing them because I wanted them on tight but the first one I tightened on slipped the tread when I put it on I guess a little to tight so was easy on the rest.
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Old 08-11-2003, 11:53 PM   #5
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For the future if you plug has a cruch gasket the you want to tighten you pulg to hand tight the 1/4 turn past. If it has an old(previously crushed) gasket or it is the tapered kind do a 1/16 turn past tight
this is what i do and I have never had a problem. Or you could just use the torque spec but torque specs are for pussys right

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