RE: Changing Spark Plugs -Why are there heat shields

From: Tom \ (prodog@swbell.net)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 12:00:05 EDT


Damn canadian engineers!!! He he he!!! j/k!

Tom "Slick"

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From: owner-dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net] On Behalf Of Canucker
Trucker
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:27 AM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: Re: DML: Changing Spark Plugs -Why are there heat shields

Hey, easy on the engineer bashing here ... I happen to be one ;-p

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Canuck
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Y2K 4.7L 2wd 5spd

<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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