Re: Changing Spark Plugs -Why are there heat shields

From: Brian Mingle (bsm11@cornell.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 12:08:03 EDT


Sorry dude, but we hate you. :-P~~ha ha ha

What type of engineer?

Brian

At 09:26 AM 6/27/02 -0600, you wrote:

>Hey, easy on the engineer bashing here ... I happen to be one ;-p
>
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><John_Neff@Dell.com> wrote in message
>news:7B26B9B85866B142A98D58C2274B82E1443E6A@AUSXMPS309.aus.amer.dell.com...
> >
> > Some engineer probably ran a heat test on the wires and found that there
>was
> > enough heat coming off the manifolds to cause the plug boots to
>deteriorate
> > within the first 150K miles. Either that, or he loves to hear people cuss
> > engineers on mailing lists like this one.
> >
> > John
> >
> > >Why do they put on the heat shields in the first place?
> >



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