Agreed. I had this problem several years back. Their 8mm wires were arcing
and crossfiring all over the place, so got them replaced under lifetime
warranty (MAJOR hassle, btw). The second set they gave me were 8.5mm wires
and they lasted a coupla months before they started arcing and crossfiring
(this with factory plug gap). Finally said hellwithit, bit the bullet and
got some Magnecors and those wires have been fine ever since. I'm still
running the Jacobs EnergyPak, but can't really say if it does any good. I
do know that if I gap the plugs anywhere beyond 0.035" ('92 5.2L), the
engine will often have major problems running (such as barely starting, then
idling at 300rpm a few seconds before dying) - I'm not sure why the plug gap
affected it that much, but setting it back to factory cured the problems -
go figure.
-- Remove .your.underwear to reply --"Mike Burgess" <mike.burgess@akamail.com> wrote in message news:3BFA63CB.3E30@akamail.com... > After a frustrating weekend drive, due do my misfortune to have > installed Jacobs products, both of which have failed: > http://www.jacobselectronics.com/products/sparkplugs/ultrafit.htm > and their OMNI ignition pack, > my truck is now running again. > I'd caravan'd up the I5 / Grapevine / Gorman area > to Mt Abel (beyond Mt Pinos) and my engine started missing, and > finally had the check engine light (due to missing) come on. > I babied it up to our campsite at 8,000ft to watch the meteor > show last Sunday AM. It was a cold, crisp, clear night, and what a > show! (under the hood, the wires were all sparkly !!) > Came back down (missing all the way) and got to a Pep Boys > before I melted my cat. Had another set of lifetime wires installed > (can't buy just 1 ya know) and Jacobs will only replace the BBQ'd > ones. > The boots had started arcing thru the sides and to the heat shields. > There were wide heat cracks on the boots, and it'd only be a matter > of time before the rest of them failed. > Feel free to fwd this to other automotive groups, since there are > good companys, and bad companys, and Jacobs is the latter. > Oh, least I forget, the wires will join the dead (at 14 months) > OMNI ignition pack I'd bought at the same time. Not worth the > postage to ship any of them back to Jacobs for "repair". > > I'v got a good deal on parachutes with a "lifetime warranty" too! > > > -- > "Thoughtcrime was not a thing that > could be concealed forever. You might > dodge sucessfully for a while, even > for years, but sooner or later they > were bound to get you." > - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four > http://www.newspeak.com/1984.htm
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