Thread: plugs look too "wet"
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Default plugs look too "wet"
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:59:28 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:13:56 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

To check the plugs you need to run at a cruising speed and then shutdown,
pull the plugs and take a look at them. Idling around for anytime is going
to load them up on a 2 stroke.

Any caution here about letting the heads cool down?
They're aluminum, right?

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Bass boats run flat out, then shut down fast all the time. The heads
seem fine

I meant to say pulling plugs from a hot aluminum head.
I stretched some threads doing that once.
Thereafter there was no more screwing them in easily by hand.
Might be a head can cool faster than a plug too.
In any case it's better to let the whole shebang cool off to near
ambient, which is what I always do now.

--Vic
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