Would You Trust These New Champion Spark Plugs?

[junkyardhero]

We had a slightly more elaborate one in HS auto shop.

It had a window, so you could see when it was clean.

You can eat away the electrode and even the ceramic, if you're not careful.

the stuff these usually come with is so fine that it takes for-ev-errr to clean 'em so that's hardly an issue.

ain't nobody got time for that. hence why i always replace mine with black beauty. a quick brrp-brrp and i'm back off to the races!

 

[jos51700]

I replaced the plugs in my Neon and stabbed in some new plugs without looking up the Country Of Origin because it was an 'American Brand'. I torqued them to spec (with a calibrated torque wrench), and went on with life. A couple weeks later the wife was driving it and it blew a plug out of the hole. The helicoil kit to fix the screwed up threads was $200 by itself, but I had to because it had chewed the hole up while the plug rattled around. I hate doing that because it's a four-valve aluminum head and removing the material for the thread inserts gets REALLY close to the press-in valve seats.

I went back and looked at the box, and sure enough: Made in China.

I looked at the plugs that came out, including the one that had blown out, and NONE of the gaskets were compressed or deformed. I threaded them into a junk head I had laying around, thinking maybe I'd just forgotten to torque them down. I torqued them to the spec on the box (which jived with the manual), and sure enough, the gaskets do not deform like they're supposed to

I'll NEVER use Chinese anythings unless there just is not another option.

 

[Hellrats]

Once a spark plug is fouled it's junk. Buy new ones.

 

[RustyRatRod]

And do not trust AI at all.Wrong information, guaranteed..

Every stinkin time, yet some guys here post that slop like it's gospel.

 

[Mattax]

Every stinkin time, yet some guys here post that slop like it's gospel.

How 'bout when some one provides an explanation or information from experience or shop manuals and the OP 'checks' some crappy AI like Gemini and posts it. I've found the "unwatch thread" button useful.

 

[RustyRatRod]

How 'bout when some one provides an explanation or information from experience or shop manuals and the OP 'checks' some crappy AI like Gemini and posts it. I've found the "unwatch thread" button useful.

Yup. The ignore feature is a lifesaver, too.

 

[YY1]

Once a spark plug it's fouled it's junk. Buy new ones.

Not if you blast them.

I've also cleaned them with gasoline and steel wool.

Hey, when you're poor.....

 

[Hellrats]

I had one of those spark plug cleaners years ago. My 2 stroke bikes ate spark plugs. The cleaner was just a band-aid. It might get the spark plug to work for a little bit but it doesn't make it work like a new spark plug.

 

[RustyRatRod]

How 'bout when some one provides an explanation or information from experience or shop manuals and the OP 'checks' some crappy AI like Gemini and posts it. I've found the "unwatch thread" button useful.

The one that really got me was the very first one of those I saw. It was about the history of the slant 6. It was so fulla crap I had to watch the whole thing in utter disbelief. lol