White electrode on plug?
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White electrode on plug?
I posted this before but cant find the thread. I changed the plugs last sat because of a miss it had. I had one loose plug. Would that cause much of a miss. It was finger tight with a socket. Also i found that the two middle plugs on the driverside of the engine had plugs with white lectrodes. All the rest were black. Is this a sign of a bad head gasket. They were not bright white but definatly tinged that color. SInce i have true duald could i be able to smell the difference on either side of the truck.
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White electrode on plug?
Ok how would i end up with 2 lean and 6 rich? I dumped a can of Sea foam in it this week. I'll have to do another can in the motor itself. This stuff is awsome! So i probably have dirty injectors.
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I can't tell if its leaking into the motor. I am loosing coolant but every week i keep blowing the line off the overflow tank. It just will not stay on. I have used many hose clamps and silicon but it keeps falling off.
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White electrode on plug?
Originally posted by tsheriff
I can't tell if its leaking into the motor. I am loosing coolant but every week i keep blowing the line off the overflow tank. It just will not stay on. I have used many hose clamps and silicon but it keeps falling off.
I can't tell if its leaking into the motor. I am loosing coolant but every week i keep blowing the line off the overflow tank. It just will not stay on. I have used many hose clamps and silicon but it keeps falling off.
(thus pushing the coolant past the cylinderhead gasket and into your combustion chambers?)
Does your oil look like coffee and cream??
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White electrode on plug?
Tim
When I was having trouble with my Cougar it would every once in a while blow the coolant out of the tank, but my temperture would spike also. turned it had a very slightly blown head gasket. I toyed with it about 2 months before it started steaming out the exhaust.
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When I was having trouble with my Cougar it would every once in a while blow the coolant out of the tank, but my temperture would spike also. turned it had a very slightly blown head gasket. I toyed with it about 2 months before it started steaming out the exhaust.
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White electrode on plug?
Can't bad wires also make it fire lean? My friend's probe was skipping under load and I changed the plugs and wires, every plug except 1 was tan. The other one was white. If coolant is being put into the combusion chamber, you'd see it out the exhaust as white smoke.
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I haven't seen any smoke out the back. I changed the wires in november with napa lifetimes. I want to get a set of JBA header wires. I keep cooking the last one on the pass side.