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Subject:Re: Accessing the #1 spark plug
From:Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Date:Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:52:55 -0700

I hope it works on the baldness thing.
No spark plugs should ever be installed with dry threads in my world...
  anti-seize compound, either aluminum or copper type.

I have seen non-professionals install spark plugs not tightly enough
hundreds of times.

What do you suppose happens when you go to start and run  the engine but
you forgot to plug in the wire connector to the AFM ?
How old is your oxygen sensor ?
< say what ????
   oxgyen what ?   I think my lungs are working OK. >
just teasing.

On 8/21/2012 6:53 AM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> All: I posted that question yesterday afternoon when I was tired. It was
> a self-answering question and I apologize for the waste of bandwidth.
> I'm not one of those folk -- and I bet there are some of them here --
> who find taking things apart and putting them back together all the time
> to be a great pleasure. I just want the van to run, and run nicely, but
> don't want to do the work. This is obviously a self-defeating
> proposition and I need to stop being a whiny baby about it.
>
> All right, fine, I'll pull the stupid air cleaner assembly and swap out
> the old plugs for these multi-electrode NGK BP6ET 3-tip ones that were
> recently discussed. I believe I read that they cure male pattern
> baldness.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
> On 08/20/2012 09:56 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
>> Removing the air filter makes plugs on that side a lot easier.
>>
>> Dennis
>

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