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Postby Mornin Beef » Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:09 am

How important is it to make sure to you calibrate your spark plugs out of the box. I'm speaking to the spacing. Does anyone do this?
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby flight control » Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:12 am

Mornin Beef wrote:How important is it to make sure to you calibrate your spark plugs out of the box. I'm speaking to the spacing. Does anyone do this?

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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby jehler » Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:14 am

Very important, to big a gap you could burn holes in the top of your piston
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby jehler » Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:15 am

Ain't nobody got time for that
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby jarbo03 » Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:19 am

jehler wrote:Ain't nobody got time for that

Ha! I recommend you gap your plugs also.

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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby DeadEye_Dan » Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:23 am

Mornin Beef wrote:How important is it to make sure to you calibrate your spark plugs out of the box. I'm speaking to the spacing. Does anyone do this?


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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby Mornin Beef » Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:36 am

Biscuits. Better get into this damn manual now. Thanks for making me nervous everyone.
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby assateague » Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:45 am

Mornin Beef wrote:How important is it to make sure to you calibrate your spark plugs out of the box. I'm speaking to the spacing. Does anyone do this?


Very. In addition to damaging stuff, I've never had a motor run well with poorly gapped plugs. Often, it won't run at all.
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby Bootlipkiller » Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:15 pm

My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby jehler » Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:34 pm

Bootlipkiller wrote:My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby Bootlipkiller » Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:42 pm

jehler wrote:
Bootlipkiller wrote:My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!
QL77JC4

Say what?
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby assateague » Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:44 pm

His autocorrect is really fucked up now.
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby jehler » Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:44 pm

I think that's what plugs your motor takes, I was a Johnson mechanic for a few years, when you posted I thought of your Johnson and that number came out, couldn't control it
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby banknote » Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:46 pm

jehler wrote:when you posted I thought of your Johnson

c'mon, somebody's gotta run with this.
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby assateague » Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:46 pm

Thought of his Johnson, huh?
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby assateague » Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:47 pm

Beat me to it :lol:
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby banknote » Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:47 pm

:lol:
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby Bootlipkiller » Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:49 pm

:):):)
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby jehler » Tue Apr 09, 2013 3:13 pm

banknote wrote:
jehler wrote:when you posted I thought of your Johnson

c'mon, somebody's gotta run with this.
i saw it before I hit send, I got to say I'm a little disappointed nobody hit that softball out of the park
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby 3legged_lab » Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:17 pm

I've never had a plug at the right gap outta the box
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby BrewGUN » Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:50 pm

jehler wrote:
Bootlipkiller wrote:My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!
QL77JC4

Isn't that what most Johnson/e-rudes run from 1980-2000?
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby Flightstopper » Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:58 pm

BrewGUN wrote:
jehler wrote:
Bootlipkiller wrote:My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!
QL77JC4

Isn't that what most Johnson/e-rudes run from 1980-2000?

Even older, at least if the stuff before the JC4 doesn't change anything.
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby assateague » Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:02 pm

Don't you argue with Johnny Boomerang.
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby jehler » Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:09 pm

assateague wrote:Don't you argue with Johnny Boomerang.
nobody and I mean nobody could not fix a boat like Johnny boomerang
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby Mornin Beef » Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:12 pm

jehler wrote:
assateague wrote:Don't you argue with Johnny Boomerang.
nobody and I mean nobody could not fix a boat like Johnny boomerang

HAHA Johnny boomerang....I got a friend i call Mr. Meltdown.
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby aunt betty » Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:32 am

Flightstopper wrote:
BrewGUN wrote:
jehler wrote:
Bootlipkiller wrote:My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!
QL77JC4

Isn't that what most Johnson/e-rudes run from 1980-2000?

Even older, at least if the stuff before the JC4 doesn't change anything.

Yep, I have a couple sets of new plugs. Gapped and stored on the boat along with water pump, fuel pump, spare impellers, props and about everything you could possibly break. EXCEPT A STARTER FOR A 9.9/15 hp Evinrude/Johnson.
Nobody ever thinks about my Johnson. :cry:
I've heard that it's incredibly stupid to fuck around with a crazy man's head.
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby flight control » Wed Apr 10, 2013 7:09 pm

aunt betty wrote:
Flightstopper wrote:
BrewGUN wrote:
jehler wrote:
Bootlipkiller wrote:My out board runs on the souls of dead fish. I better catch some soon!
QL77JC4

Isn't that what most Johnson/e-rudes run from 1980-2000?

Even older, at least if the stuff before the JC4 doesn't change anything.

Yep, I have a couple sets of new plugs. Gapped and stored on the boat along with water pump, fuel pump, spare impellers, props and about everything you could possibly break. EXCEPT A STARTER FOR A 9.9/15 hp Evinrude/Johnson.
Nobody ever thinks about my Johnson. :cry:

The springs in mine let go on me more than once. Good thing you can cut the cord and wrap it around the flywheel. A spare cord with a handle would be nice somewhere in that kit.
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby aunt betty » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:08 pm

Got that tied around the brace where the motor bolts onto the transom. :thumbsup: Also have spare recoil assembly in my toolbox. Ask Insaneduck... he hunts with me.

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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby Goldfish » Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:24 pm

aunt betty wrote:Got that tied around the brace where the motor bolts onto the transom. :thumbsup: Also have spare recoil assembly in my toolbox. Ask Insaneduck... he hunts with me.

WANTED: Starter for 80's vintage Evinrude 9.9/15 HP :mrgreen:


I'm sure my aunt could get you one, but really, those things pull start so easy why bother?



I second the keeping a spare rope to wrap around the flywheel. You know how I know how to do that? Cartoons. Looney tunes were made back when that was how you had to do it, so watching them wrap the cord, then pull, then wrap the cord, then pull, then wrap the cord and pull made me realize what the notches on the flywheel were for.
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Re: marine spark plugs

Postby jehler » Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:25 pm

The 15 are notorious hard starters, the 9.9's should start 2nd pull
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