This is a little late for your diagnosis but, We were working on a friends
truck a while back. It was running bad so he replaced the spark plugs. Well
it ran worse, a miss that was definately a dead cylinder. The neighbor came
over (older fella), told us to put a drop of oil at each header tube. The
one that didn't smoke was the dead cylinder. Wow, number 3 didn't smoke, in
fact is was cool enough to touch. The others were hot enough to burn the
finger (don't ask). A brand new spark plug bad? I ask him about that and he
said, well, they're not brand new. They had cleaned em with the wire wheel
on the grinder. I always heard that would mess 'em up. Now I have seen it.
Claude
http://www.n-link.com/~rameyfam
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From: <VIKINGHILL@aol.com>
To: <kinghorn@granite.mb.ca>; <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 7:48 AM
Subject: [oletrucks] Low Fire on #1, REDEMPTION! AKA Thanks everyone!
> Hi all,
> Finnaly got around to checking the plugs and wires on the old beast. I
> recleaned and re gapped the #1 cyl. plug and changed locations wih another
> plug, BINGO the #1 came alive and the #2 died. Knowing now that I had a
bad
> plug I pulled the wire on the #2 (now dead) cyl and had an electrifying
> experience. Quickly replaced the wire and noted that when it was removed,
the
> spark hot wire to the coil would alternately arc to the coil / Dist. wire
and
> then to the ground. I then pulled the wire to the coil and found that the
> innards were completely ate up with corrosion! It was so bad that the
> electrode on the coil plug just fell apart when I attempted to clean it
with
> a wire brush. Any way the low volts to the dist. was fowling out the plugs
> and about every other wire was arcing over. I now have replaced the coil
and
> plugs and wires and am the happy owner of a purring 235! Thanks all, I
would
> have thought that the wires were good since they were only 1.5 years old.
> (they had a warrenty).
> Take care all and I'll think of everyone as I drive this weekend!
> Gotta Love that Ole' Iron,
> Casey
> '47.5 thriftmaster.
> P.S. alot of the smoke went away as well!
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
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