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Subject WTF..Broken spark plug, please help
     
Posted by captn boost on February 19, 2004 at 4:21 PM
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Message So yesterday i was driving home from work and i realized my car had just started to run really rough. Wasnt driving fast probably about 3 miles of stop and go driving never got into boost. Idle dropped to like 500 and the car was hesitating really badly. The car was still very much driveable so i drove it the rest of the way home.
When i got home i decided to pull the plugs and see what condtion they were in. As im pulling them they all look to be in good shape and i figure im just wasteing my time ... then i pull #5 =[


So im curseing and throwing things around my garage since im sure that the cylinder is fried from detonation or alike.
Then i run a compression test and get this...
1-155
2-151
3-153
4-143
5-150!
6-148

The pervious owner had the engine rebuilt 35k ago so the numbers look pretty good. Adding a little oil to #4 gave it 150 psi.The engine was sitting for about 2 hrs in 30 degree weather so it wasnt that warm.

Im pretty happy with these numebrs but... WTF happened to my plug. I plan on going over a bunch of things on motor tongiht (injectors ect). What would cause the destruction on a plug like this? The engine ran great prior to yesterday. Thanks for your input

     
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