Blue smoke and funny backfires? Geez, Sam! Wish you had recorded a movie of
that to post on the downloads page.Of course under the sub-heading:"what not
to do when installing the highly recommended autolite 3923 plugs"
HAHAHAHAHA!
Will Coughlin willcoughlin@hotmail.com
'00 reg.cab,2wd,4.7L/hd5-spd/3.92sg(9.25")
1ST place Dakota-truck at 11th annual Houston Mopar show and race/National
DML meet!!
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Sam Parthemer" <srp@home.com>
Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Subject: DML: Plug replacement
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:52:31 -0800
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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