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Old 03-20-2005, 04:48 AM
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Re: help plz

Oil breaks down a spark plug wire's boot's ability to insulate against unwanted spark discharge to places other than the spark plug, so if the wires have been sitting in a puddle of oil down in the plug bores, they may be intermittantly firing through the boots to the engine and causing misfire.
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