The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Engine Shop 1965 C10 - 350 sbc. I hear this ticking sound...

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.... and I get home from work and my spark plug is:

A) unplugged from the wire
B) loose and rattling around in the block
C) broken (as in spinning around freely in the housing)

!!!@$@!$#@%$@???

So... of course while checking the other spark plugs, the spark plug wire on one of them broke apart and I spent like 30 mins putting it back together with the clip and trying to get it to 'snap' onto the dadgum plug... it was in a super weird position.

*sigh*

two of the other plugs were hand tight or loose as well.

WEIRD.

so, I checked each one and snugged 'em all back up and replaced the broken one.

I have no explanation for this one.

old trucks are fun!

right?

-W

You probably had an unexpected passenger in the engine room.
Cat, rat or squirell!!!
It had a sudden urge to depart and mangled your wires.
LOL!!!

dadgum cats!

-W

Were the gaskets still on the plugs?

woog, it was mr.Goodwrench on drugs that messed it up.

Hope all is straigtened out and running smoooooth.

a hot rod guy (chopnchaneled from the HAMB) gave me this tip about the spark plug boots on the wires:


What causes that is when you pushed the boots on the plugs there was an air pocket formed in it and after a period of time pressure builds up and blows the wire off.

What we did to keep it from happening on the race engines was take a needle and syringe after pushing the boot on and slide the needle in the boot beside the plus and draw a little vacuum and it solved our problem.

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Makes sense to me on the part about the wire popping off anyway.

Still not sure why the plug broke... I guess I'll keep an eye on it.

-W