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One Fouled Spark Plug

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  1. TonyT4

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    Just pulled the plugs on my 83 308QV and noted one sooty plug with a strong smell of gasoline. Other the checking the obvious bad plug wire, does anybody have other ideas of things I should check.

    Thanks in advance.

    Tony
     
    TonyT4, Jun 22, 2007
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    Welcome to Ferrarichat Tony. :):)
    Did the car have a missfire before you removed the plugs mate?
    I would also think that you may have a leaking/bad injector to go with that fouled plug. :)
    Please fill out your profile and enjoy the site Tony. :)
     
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    Pull the injector and check it to see if it's leaking under pressure. PB
     
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    Make sure the plug wire is connected well at the distributor cap. You might even unscrew the securing screw, trim off 1cm of wire and re-insert and tighten the screw back down to ensure a good connection.
     
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    If you don't have access to a professional workbench, then just try swapping the plug wire on one engine side with its same length mate on the other. Now swap the injectors from those two cylinders.

    Install a clean new plug in place of your sooty, gas-soaked one. Then drive for half an hour.

    Now pull the plug on the swapped mate side as well as the new plug.

    Either one gas-soaked this time?
     
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    The injector had better leak under pressure....it's a CIS car, not EFI :)

    The injectors do get plugged up and don't spray right, so cleaning it might help....but I don't think that's it.

    Check the plug extender, those things fail pretty regularly
     
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    Thanks to everyone for the input. I will check the items mentioned today.

    Tony
     
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    Oh. :p:p
    Go with the plug extender then. ;);)
     
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    Aye!! You again! :p:p
     
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