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Not quite sure which is the best way to check to see if my spark plug wires are any good, meter, mileage? Thanks there Bolters General Motors all the way..
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OL'55 On modern 8 mm plug wires if they are soft and supple with terminals in good shape probably fine. If they are dingy clean with hand cleaner wipe off or rinse with water dry off.
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I couldn't find it in the past electrical threads but I thought there was a way to check your plug wires with a multimeter of some sort?
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Use a plain old ohmmeter- - - - -less than 1K-ohm (1,000 Ohms) per inch is good.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!"
Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
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Thanks there Hotrod, should have known you would have the answer.
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The 1Kohm per inch (or 12K per foot) resistance has been the standard since the 1950's when the Packard wire division of General Motors came out with TVRS (Television/radio suppression) wire in the mid 1950's. That's a maximum allowable replacement standard- - - -most wires have somewhat less.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!"
Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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I always know mine are bad if I grab one while the engine is running with my other hand on a good ground. HELLO!
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Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums
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I always know mine are bad if I grab one while the engine is running with my other hand on a good ground. HELLO! The poor man's defibrillator!! On my old Model A with the bare copper spark plug straps, touching one of those usually resulted in a bruise on the back of my arm from the radiator support rod. 
Kevin Newest Project - 51 Chevy 3100 work truck. Photos [ flickr.com] #2 - '29 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. First car '29 Ford Special Coupe Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
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As a kid back in the '50s, there was an elderly gent in our community who had terrible rheumatoid arthritis in his hands. He was in considerable misery most of the time. His go-to to get some relief was to hike up the hood on his car (a 53-54 ish Chevy) and with the engine running, grab #1 and #6 spark plug wires (with the exposed metal at the plug). That would nearly bog that engine down. He would hold on for a few seconds, then turn loose of the wires. He claimed that that made the arthritis better. My thinking then and now is that compared to the shock treatment, the arthritis was nothing. BTW, none of us kids would mess with him--we figured he was meaner than the Devil!
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