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What Do My Spark Plugs Mean?

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  • Start date Start date Apr 19, 2016

OneWheelPeel

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I pulled my plugs the other day and a few looked like this. What causes them to get like this?

 
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How old are the plugs?

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About 6 months.
 

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I'm guessing they're just worn. It just seemed to me that 6 months was pretty quick to go through a set of plugs.
 

7991LXnSHO

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That looks like the Ash Fouled picture. The last motor I had do that had cooked and cracked oil seals on the valve guides (that were probably also worn.) How many miles are on the motor? Does it smoke when you let off the throttle? How about when starting after parked on a slope?

If instead, it smokes under a heavy foot, check the compression, but that usually leaves an darker oil deposit.
 

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It doesn't smoke at all but it does have oil on the threads on some of the plugs of that helps solve anything.
 

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Compression and leak down tests, please.
 
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