In a message dated 98-07-03 01:08:29 EDT, SkyCruizer@AOL.COM writes:

<< It appears that that little side electrode musta danced right on out o' the
 engine (thank the gods).  Couldn't find it anywhere.  I used all of the EASY
 recommended methods to retrieve it.  The loss of power I guess was mainly due
 to the plug not firing.
 Unfortunately, I had to catch my flight and was not able to do the
compression
 check or much else for that matter.  I did make it to NAPA to get some more
 Bosch plugs (am I asking for trouble here?) and asked him (the NAPAman) if he
 had run across this problem B4 on the Bosch plugs.  He didn't seem at all
 surprised and said that it happens often enough but that the Bosch was
 packaged better for shipping, blah, blah, blah ... and so I went with the
 kraut spark again of course.  Old habits are hard to break and if you figure
 statistics, I'm now better off as having had this happen (Yeah, RIGHT!).

 Well, just wanted to thank all on the list and I'll update ya ASAP on my
 findings once I'm able to delve into the matter deeper.  I haven't actually
 started her since this incident.

 Once again,
 Thanks for all the Fish...

 Don >>

 I'm offended by the term "Kraut spark plugs".   In the land of the round door
knobs, (America), and everything else built HALF ASS,  you drove your Kraut
vanagerm to shit hole Napa, to be helped by BuBu, who should off sold you some
peace crap "Krapa spark plugs" (Autolites) put together by a bunch of white
trash red-necks. "How about some Krapa Autolite shit fire white trash red-neck
plugs for your Vanagerm SIR"        Don, if you think every german is a kraut,
than every american is a lazy, fat, white trash, camero hair, red neck
looooooooooooossssssser !!!
  Get my point.