[AT] B Allis

[Phil Auten]

Larry,
Your comments got me to thinking: I wonder if there's some additive in
the gasoline that is causing these shorted out plugs. I know you probably
don't have the time right now (there's an understatement), but it would
be interesting to find out if the propane torch treatment discussed here
a while back could revive these plugs.

Phil

At 01:07 PM 03/23/2004, you wrote:
>I'm glad you all picked up on that comment.  Things were getting way too
>serious in the discussions and I figured there needed to be some comic
>relief.
>
>I wouldn't have bothered to make the comment in the first place if I
>hadn't literally just come in from the shop having just replaced the NGK
>plugs in a water-cooled lawn & garden John Deere.  It wouldn't begin to
>think of firing, but the plugs had given out with less than 100 hours on
>them.  No burning or corrosion, and no excessive carbon buildup, just
>shorting out.
>
>Got to go shopping for more parts: air filters, plugs, oil, oil
>filters... I started the day with 10 units in the shop and decorating
>the patio.  I should be down to around three by nightfall -- if I can
>keep up with the neighbors dropping additional tractors off for service.
>
>Larry