Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Broken Spark Plug is Cause of Mystery Noise...


This spark plug was removed from a late model Toyota Corolla 4 cylinder engine. The customer was concerned about an extremely loud noise coming from the engine. As it turns out the noise was caused by the top half of this broken spark plug moving up and down as the the cylinder cycled between high and low pressure. Also there was a fair amount of noise caused by air rushing past the broken ceramic top of this spark plug.

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