[net.auto] spark gaps????

stevek@umcp-cs.UUCP (09/10/83)

	In general we have not found plugs to be gapped properly when
we buy them from parts houses etc. The only exception is HONDA , and
we have yet to get a plug from them that is not set exactly (but we
still check them).
	Stephen Kogge
	University of Maryland
	Department of Computer Science

emma@uw-june (Joe Pfeiffer) (09/11/83)

You can be reasnable certain that when the plugs were made, they were
right.  You cannot, however be certain that this blissful state of
affairs continued through the shipping department, shipping company,
stocking crews at the store, or even your own tansport home.  In
particular, if a plug gets dropped on its electrode, it loses some gap.
I've always checked mine, and I've found some small number (~10%,
maybe) to be off.  By the way, use a spark plug gapper, not a flat
feeler gauge, to check.
-Joe P.