<VV> Flying Sparkplug

[corveric at me.com]

Yep, just happened to mine a couple of weeks ago.  I was quite excited as I thought somebody had just popped a cork on a huge bottle of wine!  Alas, the rattle a second later dispelled my joy.

When using TimeSerts, be certain to not turn them too far into the head as I have learned from watching that the 'tink' sound of it falling into the combustion chamber is a bad sound - Very bad.
Led to head removal, first of the guy who did it, then the engine.

Eric Taylor
604-309-2268
Corveric at me.com<mailto:Corveric at me.com>
[Corv8ric-med]

Not common but, it happened to me, once, some twenty years ago. First and only time while driving 'vairs by 47 years.



Daniel



On 04/09/15 10:21, "mvjacobi--- via VirtualVairs"

<virtualvairs at corvair.org<mailto:virtualvairs at corvair.org>> wrote:



>Well, my 63 Monza keeps showing me new and interesting tricks.  Last

>Monday night coming home, engine running smooth and quiet, suddenly

>sounded like an M-80 firecracker going off in the engine bay followed

>by a horrible racket sounding like a lost muffler or worse.  Arriving

>home in the garage, light revealed that the number one spark plug had

>departed it's hole and wound up in the battery tray.  A helicoil later

>and the plug was reinstalled and the sparkplug wire which had been

>caught up in the fan belt, replaced.  I can't for the life of me figure

>how that plug came loose.  Its been in there for at least three years.

>Now suddenly it goes flying out!  Question:  Does the Vair have a

>reputation for spitting out sparkplugs spontaneously?  In the more than

>55 years of driving various cars, this is the first time I have encountered flying sparkplugs

>from any of them.   With the plug back in its place, the engine is back

>to running smoothly, as if nothing untoward had ever happened.  Anyone

>have experience with this type problem?

>

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