The Truth About Spark Plugs....

Might want to make sure that you wrote that correctly. If you disconnect the negative cable from the battery, and touch it to a common ground location, you accomplish nothing. To discharge the on-board capacitors you need to disconnect the negative cable and connect it to a +12V point, which will discharge the capacitors. I assume that is what you meant to say.

 

Please stop harassing and following my every post you are annoying.

 

Wow. Um, wasn't following anything. Just saw a post in a forum that I was in already. You should be less paranoid? I am trying to make sure people know the CORRECT information and procedure before they damage something.

 

Stop being wrong?

 

Look arguing with you is a lost cause this should be taken to private messages but I seriously doubt you know how to respond to one.

I don't want to be as large an orifice as your seeming to be, but I would like to point out that some one that has completed ASE training has proven at the very least that they have acomplished the task of reading and comprehension, to which you have failed at both.

The positive aspect of your nature is that you will be undoubtedly be here more time that myself to give assistance to people that may really need it.

But if you continue with the premmise of of being of the highest order of learning with nothing left to achive (a basic know it all) you not only do yourself a miscredit but all the people that have and use ASE as credentials.

ASE even makes an effort to educate student in the ability to deal in customer service aspect of the work place.

So either you had someone else take the tests for you, inherited them from your father that has the same name or, it was a long time ago or you haven't renewed your license since 1985 when you were 16.
And although you may have known a lot back then things have changed,
and obviously your memory isn't what it use to be.

Every time you want to give the correct information what you are actually saying is you want someone to teach you because you don't know.
Your challenges have been baseless and rudimentary.

So son, please read more and post less , unless you have a legitimate question that isn't full of contempt and sarcasm.

What I want is an applogy and or you to back down and get off your high horse or else you are going on my ignore list.( or at least this is what you could hope for)

 

I'll expain it to you if that is what you are asking.

 

Well it seems that I am being called out. Well I have no problems at all with my knowledge, and my certifications. I will post in this, and the other thread our interesting PM that you initiated, and let us see which one of us has the proper qualifications.

The following is a copy of the PM, and my reply. I decided to leave the spelling mistakes since it appears you, Lagunito, are saying I need to brush up on my reading skills. I think YOU need to brush up on your spelling skills.

Feel free to post my quoted reply Mr Lagunito. You are barking up the wrong tree if you think I am not a qualified technician. I have tried to be polite and civil, but you sir, have fired the first shot. The gloves are now off. You WILL loose this battle.

 

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I haven't read thru everything on here about spark plugs but why does a GM engine go 100,000 miles between plug changes and the Tacoma only 30,000 miles? I have a 2004 GMC Z71 and had the plugs changed at 100,000 miles as recommended by the manufacture. I had no issues before or after, same gas mileage.

 

Why do you still insist on rowing your douche canoe down tool bag river?

You have 47 posts an nobody knows who you are, I don't think anyone gives a shit if they are on your ignore list. Go ahead and put me on it, it will literally make ZERO difference to me, or anyone else.

 

MOM! THE INTERNET SAID I WAS WRONG AND WONT SAY IT'S SORRY!!

 

These guys are making mechanics look bad!

 

There are numerous vehicles who have varying recommended mileage intervals for their spark plugs. Why is one different than the other? Well in the case of GM, they use only ACDelco plugs, and ACDelco says their plugs will last 100k miles when used in GM vehicles. Those are the plugs I have seen the most to be honest. I have used NGKs on all of the Nissan and Toyota vehicles I have ever owned.

If you go to the NGK spark plug website, you can find this answer in their FAQ on how often to replace spark plugs.

By the way, to be fair, and give you a chance Lagunito, I have also posted here:

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/262951-being-called-out-tw-member.html

 

Haha! The internetz is a difficult place for some...

 

I heard you like grounds, so I recommend
grounding your ground to ground, so you
can ground your grounded ground while
you are grounding your grounded grounded
ground to ground.
TL;DR let x=x

 

my negative cable won't reach the ground, can I use the negative battery terminal instead?

 

The reason touching the negative cable to the positive terminal on the battery should not be recomended is the same reason vehicle manufacturers give instructions on jump starting a battery with a neutral grounding point, not on the negative post of the battery.

The negative ground system on an vehicle uses several grounding points through out.
The positive leads to various actuators and components are fused and relayed.
Capacitors are simular in fuction and theory to batteries except the capacitor discharges more rapidly and some what violently.

For this reason the method of discharging them is important.

Forcing the electrical charge by looping the negative cable into the positive electrical storage and current flow is alright on some older vehicles.

Newer vehicles are more sensitive because their circuits, components, and actuators use smaller gauge wiring and fuses to protect them, they are more suseptable to failure. Some failures won't be have immediate results, but the stress on the sytems they cause can be evident in the reduced longevity of the affected parts.

Some manufactures suggest disconnecting the positive battery cable and touching the negative battery terminal for the reason as stated above.

I suggested using the negative battery cable as a ground to a chassis which is effective in the sense that it is a larger conduit for the electricity to follow, compared to the smaller grounding points throughout a vehicle when a reversed current flow is used.