Borrowed a buddy of mines Cheby to pick up some VW parts one time . It
was your run o the mill small block . Running fine and just died ,would not
Re start . Spark plug had a dead short . Pulled the wire once we figured it
out and found a plug for it later and it purred like a kitten again .
    That id the one and only time I have seen a plug die .

      Stacy

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:01 PM, JRodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have never in all my years of maintaining engines had a spark plug
> that just plain quit. But it just happened.
>
> Running fine - then suddenly rough. Started that tests. First looked at
> the distributor - near new. Next tested the lead by running the engine
> and putting a strobe on it. totally dead. Pulled the plug, check the
> electrodes - near new. Put the plug back in. Got another known good lead
> and installed it. Checked with the strobe - stone cold dead!! Only thing
> left = dead plug. Replaced with new - fired right up running smooth. I
> have had distributor caps go dead on one plug, I've had many leads go
> bad or dead - but never a spark plug - not like this - stone cold dead.
>
> Like the Lil' Boy sez _"Larn sump'in new every day!"
>
> John
>

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