One spark plug too short?? Whaaaat?

[Malt_Vinegar]

I replaced the plugs in my prelude today, and found that one of the plugs that had been put in there when the engine was replaced was shorter than the others??

Presumably this would have had a hit on fuel economy/power and performance, as one of the cylinders would have been burning very ineficiently? Not to mention, ruined emissions (which was a struggle at the last MOT!)

 

[Fuzz]

Amazing what you find done to engines when something goes wrong.
Best one so far I've seen is a Piston with a taller crown than the others that had then been hacksawed down to the right height.
(A Ducato van IIRC)

 

[Jonny69]

Doubt it would have affected it too severely but it would be better to run a full set of the correct plugs.

 

[logix42p]

i was in a motor factors and the person in front was asking why his car was veering to one side when he broke. To cut a long story short the guy had done a disk conversion on one of the rear brakes and left the drum on the other side.

 

[Fuzz]

What did he break?

 

[Meridian]

What did he break?

AFAIK the past tense of both "brake" and "break" is "broke". The sentence you mock looks odd ("brake" is seldom used in that tense), but is grammatically correct.


M

 

[Moeks]

ignore - double post

 

[Moeks]

To cut a long story short the guy had done a disk conversion on one of the rear brakes and left the drum on the other side.

Jesus, I guess he's a dumb as they come and yet still be capable of driving.

 

[Fuzz]

AFAIK the past tense of both "brake" and "break" is "broke". The sentence you mock looks odd ("brake" is seldom used in that tense), but is grammatically correct.


M

Mmm shouldn't it be the verb "when he BRAKED".

 

[Moeks]

Yes it should be, you woudln't use the term broke like logix did. Technicalities aside tough ideally you'd just find a better way of saying it, something "when he applied the brakes".

 

[SB118]

What did he break?

AFAIK the past tense of both "brake" and "break" is "broke". The sentence you mock looks odd ("brake" is seldom used in that tense), but is grammatically correct.

M

Mmm shouldn't it be the verb "when he BRAKED".

Yes it should be, you woudln't use the term broke like logix did. Technicalities aside tough ideally you'd just find a better way of saying it, something "when he applied the brakes".

Ahhh, Motors

 

[iaind]

Yes it should be, you woudln't use the term broke like logix did. Technicalities aside tough ideally you'd just find a better way of saying it, something "when he applied the brakes".

Or even just "when he brakes" - assuming the problem was current, using the present tense is perfectly valid

 

[Fr0dders]

sorry is this OcUK motors or dictionary corner ?

 

[The Running Man]

when i had my sparkplugs changed i got my old 4 plugs back and 1 had a bigger gap than the other 3:/

 

[monkey_boy]

When I needed new spark plugs, there was an apostrophe in "plugs" in the instructions. I had a fit and couldn't breathe for 10 minutes.

 

[Meridian]

sorry is this OcUK motors or dictionary corner ?

Grammar Nazis lurk everywhere...


M

 

[markweatherill]

Well, heck, to purposely use 'broke' as the past tense of 'to brake' seems to be a wilful affectation.
I think it's incorrect too.
Just because 'brake' sounds like 'break' doesn't mean you should use 'broke' for both!

After a wheel has been 'braked' to a halt, it isn't 'broken', is it..?



...and every corner can be a dictionary corner

 

[Malt_Vinegar]

tHank's four teh grammer lesion; people...~

 

[Fuzz]

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