Neanderpundit

Spark plugs usually burn at a specific rate, so many thou over so many miles. At internal engine temperatures, the spark is actually blasting tiny bits of material from the electrodes, and over time they make the engine run less efficiently.

yes, I do know this, all too well- and yet I let the truck go 175,000 miles without a tuneup. It was running fine.

First of all, I do use high end platinum plugs, and very high quality wires. The plugs are a wear item, but I get the wires with a lifetime warranty and I just get neew ones and replace them when I need to.

This time I was overdue. Like 75,000 miles overdue.

Then in a fit of stupid I swapped the wires on 5&6, and it ran ragged till I found the book and figured it out.

What a farging day.

And how do they always end up driving in front of me?

Yesterday, on the way into work, I run across a guy in a hy-rail truck, who drives slower and slower and slower until he finally stops dead on the expressway, pulls over, and starts yapping on his cellphone. Traffic is heavy enough that I can’t get around him until he gets to the median. And I nearly get creamed by the horde behind me.

We didn’t need Christopher Columbus. This shit proves that the earth is round. No way this guy would EVER have gotten ahead of me if he hadn’t started eighteen years ago,in Peru.

Christ, I need some coffee.