Re: Changing Spark Plugs -Why are there heat shields

From: kevin reimer (kwreimer@msn.com)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 19:23:00 EDT


Well help do something about it Dammit!! ;)
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From: Canucker Trucker <mal5@ualberta.net>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 8:26 AM
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
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> <John_Neff@Dell.com> wrote in message
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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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