OT - How Unique!

They were in 97 also... Platinum plugs. Oddly Toyota recomends at 30K IIRC.

They'd go on my cars on *the* nastiest day of the year (33F and rain). No thanks. I think my Ranger still has its original plugs (9 years/90Kmi). I know it has its original wires.

OTOH, I had a '93 Eagle Vision that would throw a set of wires every year. The book said it was a 3-hour job but I got it down to an hour clock time by making my own tools to route the wires under the intake manifold and fuel rail. A set of wires was $100 from Chrysler and the after-market wires did not fit. It turns out that the label on the engine had the wrong spark gap listed. It was only off by a factor of two. :-(

Holy crap. What is your address in heaven?

RonB

Larry Jaques wrote: ...

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Don't know that we know...

Just got this from a embedded systems consulting guru whose newsletter I subscribe to. His take at the moment--

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On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:46:26 -0600, the infamous Dave Balderstone scrawled the following:

I still have both of mine (dad's old strobe timing light and vacuum meter), and they have about 1/4" of dust on them now, under my toolbox in a metal case, my dwellmeter in the bottom of the box.

-- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. -- George Bernard Shaw

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:12:23 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote (in article ):

Vacuum gauges are still very handy for engine testing....

But as there's no way for a home mechanic to REPAIR an engine, why bother?

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:22:12 -0700, Dave Balderstone wrote (in article ):

Depends on what you have/know 8^)

A modern engine can still have valves/ springs/ rings/hoses go bad.

On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:22:12 -0600, the infamous Dave Balderstone scrawled the following:

Perhaps to keep your mechanic honest?

-- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. -- George Bernard Shaw