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"

-----Original Message-----
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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