Smoking engine ?

[rob love]

I meant that the other person would be to crank the engine, or to feel the exhaust for the miss. If I ever had the missus pull the plug wires and get zapped, well, I can't say for sure what would happen. I know it would not be a good thing to laugh at.



My own rule was that whomever's vehicle it was had the job at the sparkplug wires when trying to find a bad plug. When I was in the service, the old 5/4 ton chevs got a new system of shielded plugs and wires. There were a lot of failures early on, and rather than rip out everything and install 8 new wires and insulators, I would have the operator pull each wire one at a time while I felt the exhaust. I was attached to an infantry unit at the time, and some of those guys were pretty tough. But they all said ooookkkkkay the same when a spark plug wire was pulled. I would say OK if I felt a new miss and they would put the wire back in. If I could not quite discern the miss, I woudl say "do it again" and they would pull that wire out again, and say ooookkkkay? I would find the bad wire and unsulator, and have them back on the road (a little worse for wear) within a half hour vs the several hours to tailor the wire set and replace all the insulators in the shields for the plugs.