anyone out there bored enough with 2020 and/or covid lockdown that they need a diversion?
care to provide arm-chair mechanic insights into the condition of these spark plugs?
disregard the gap note...that was reminder to myself for the new ones.
they have been in service for a little over 1 year - maybe 10,000 miles. previous of tune-ups have been done by Josh @ Willamette Blvd Service...so I have not seen what past plugs have looked like from my truck. she does use a quart of oil in 3000 miles....i was half expecting to see the plugs a little more oil fouled. as far a where the quart goes: I have no oil drips on the ground where she parks...so that 1qt per 3000 is not dripping out of various orifices. (rear main and oil pan gaskets done at time of 5 speed swap 2 years ago.). Her bottom and backside are dry <-- insert mom joke here.
She gets a solid 15Mpg on the highway if not loaded down for a big trip. She gets 12 to 14mpg if heavily weighed with camping / fishing gear / dog / wife / etc...
no driveability issues - but I do get excessive pinging when climbing a grade and it's hot weather (especially if i dont run premium)
running higher octane fuel takes care of the pinging. (I've run more bottles of different carbon build-up removers than I care to admit...nothing has really made much difference). if its hot weather and i'm climbing grade and it's not running 93 octane...it sounds like an 80's era diesel rabbit!
i just changed the air filter and the plugs cuz i'm bored and it's been a year..
cheers!
paul
care to provide arm-chair mechanic insights into the condition of these spark plugs?
disregard the gap note...that was reminder to myself for the new ones.
they have been in service for a little over 1 year - maybe 10,000 miles. previous of tune-ups have been done by Josh @ Willamette Blvd Service...so I have not seen what past plugs have looked like from my truck. she does use a quart of oil in 3000 miles....i was half expecting to see the plugs a little more oil fouled. as far a where the quart goes: I have no oil drips on the ground where she parks...so that 1qt per 3000 is not dripping out of various orifices. (rear main and oil pan gaskets done at time of 5 speed swap 2 years ago.). Her bottom and backside are dry <-- insert mom joke here.
She gets a solid 15Mpg on the highway if not loaded down for a big trip. She gets 12 to 14mpg if heavily weighed with camping / fishing gear / dog / wife / etc...
no driveability issues - but I do get excessive pinging when climbing a grade and it's hot weather (especially if i dont run premium)
running higher octane fuel takes care of the pinging. (I've run more bottles of different carbon build-up removers than I care to admit...nothing has really made much difference). if its hot weather and i'm climbing grade and it's not running 93 octane...it sounds like an 80's era diesel rabbit!
i just changed the air filter and the plugs cuz i'm bored and it's been a year..
cheers!
paul