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Shadow
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 Picture of my spark plugs Well I have noticed a black film on my cavitation plate after a couple of outings recently. Enough to where its hard to wash off. I know a little bit about motors and I'm working on learning as much as I can. Any thoughts are appreciated. I'm thinkin I might be running a little too rich? Here is a picture of the plugs.
This is on a Prodrive 36 horse. In the pic of 2 plugs the right plug is on tiller side.
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autogateman
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs i own a motorcycle shop and those actually look perfectly normal. too rich would be like tar on the plugs, lean will make them white. brown is good.
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T-Jacques
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs you got a bad lower unit seal
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autogateman
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs
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UNCLE-J
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs Nice Picture
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DeathMetalDukk
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs
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Shadow
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs
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cb5331
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs It's not ur seals shadow. I seen the motor. It's def exhaust soot.
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autogateman
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs ahh i see now, i have a lt so the cav plate is at the end, therefore the only stuff that can get on it is mud.  can u post a pic of the film?
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Shadow
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs This is after about 4 wash's and scrubbing the crap out of it. It was almost completely black...could barely make out the letters. Thats after about 7 hours of driving.
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autogateman
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs  hmmm........is the muffler old? i know sometimes carbon buildup inside a muffler will blow stuff out as the motor heats up and burns it
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Shadow
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs This is a 2010 prodrive. Bought in december of last year. Thats why I was thinking it might have been rich.... I dunno.
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autogateman
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs hell id bring it back then
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cb5331
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Shadow
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs The motor runs well.... I mean I haven't noticed anything wrong... other than the black crap on my cav plate
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autogateman
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs well, usually yes. at least alot darker than the pics show. if a pplug is hot enough, it will burn the extra gas being delivered to the cylinder, thats why alot of people go up one 'level' of heat on their spark plugs if they have problems getting to warm up
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Shadow
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs Soooo.... what to do... what to do.
Is that good idea?
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autogateman
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs you can try it, wont hurt anything. maybe call the dealer and see if they've had any issues before
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Shadow
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs
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Chico80x
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs Those plugs look perfect, how long did you run them in the engine before you took them out?
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Shadow
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs
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POKER1
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs You have a a short transom rig and you get backwash in your exhaust when stopping to fast. Thats just the carbon/water dripping out of the exhaust port.
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Shadow
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs
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Chico80x
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs On these engines is there always one cylinder that runs leaner than the other? Judging by his pictures, it seems like the plug on the right is running a bit leaner than the other.
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take'emgator
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Re: Picture of my spark plugs i agree totally with poker exhaust soot from the water rushing in will stain like that, man we got some smart SOB's in there
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