Plug replacement

From: Sam Parthemer (srp@home.com)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2000 - 22:52:31 EST


Well I went with the 3923's as people recommended: broke 6 of 8 oem plugs
getting them out.

Gapped the 3923s to 040, and installed. During this I had a brain fart and
mixed up cyl 1/3, 2/4 with the plug wires. WOW! With my '72 Dart the 318
would just miss a bit, you'd swap the plug wires, things would smooth out
and that's that. NOT SO with the RT...

The 5.9 w/headers and complete 3" exhaust to duals out the roll pan was a
sound I couldn't even try to explain. A slight rough idle (cam like), then
a back fire that sounded like water bubbling up in a pond. 4-5 blue smoke
rings out the back and I figured out what was what... After corrected the
wire routing, everything was fine. No real power differences felt, nor any
losses either. My oem plugs with 32k were gapped to 045-050, evenly worn,
slight orange/grey tipped. Next step is MSD to get a better spark, and
regap the plugs to MSD specs.

Sam '00 RT



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