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My 92 recently started running rough. Swapped new wires on, was good for a few trips, but the roughness came back. Decided to do the rest, cap & rotor, plugs. Well, I discovered that it had a set of Bosch platinums in it.

 

They must have been in for quite a while. The engine was originally in our 86 that was totaled. Eventually it was moved to the brown 88, when it's engine overheated badly. That was a good number of years ago. Once the brown car died from rust, I had the good engine sitting in the garage, and a VERY leaky engine in the 92, so it got swapped into the 92.

 

The Bosch plugs never ran good in my 90, pinged like crazy. I had to take them out. But they hadn't caused any trouble in the above engine. Weird.

 

I have been using NGK plugs & wires only for quite a while.

 

How it was running with these busted up ones is a surprise. 2 looked like the almost normal one. The electrode on the right one is burned down into the shadow, just a piece of ceramic left near the tip.

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yep, that'll cause issues.

 

reminds me a friends' ford econobox... probably hadn't had the plugs changed in a long time. The gap was, oh, 3/16" - 1/4" :eek:

 

After new plugs and new wires, the gas mileage jumped by 5-10mpg

 

OUR e-150 never got better than 10 mpg.. but a 351 windsor will do that :-p

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oh yea, now I remember what it was! They had a Ford escort... so it should get better mileage than an e-150 :lol:

 

LOL, you said econobox, I thought you meant Econoline, what they call the fullsize van... E-150, Econoline 150.. duh, can we say miscommoonikayshun?:clap:

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