Spark plugs are one of those maintenance items that, along with things like brake fluid and thermostats, are easily overlooked but extremely important to your car's safety, longevity, and performance.
There are a lot of different types of spark plugs out there, but they all do one job, which is igniting the air-fuel mixture inside the cylinders. A shiny new spark plug does that consistently at the ...
Spark plugs sit at the center of every gasoline engine’s heartbeat, turning fuel and air into the controlled explosions that move your car. When they work properly, you feel smooth power, quick starts ...
The rate at which a spark plug wears out will vary depending on the make and model of the vehicle, the type of engine, driving conditions, and spark plug type. Engines with copper spark plugs ...
A raft of issues at Boeing, including those related to inexperienced workers and documentation failures, led to manufacturing oversights that resulted in the January 2024 in-flight failure of a 737 ...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened a criminal investigation into the blowout of a “door plug” on a Boeing 737 MAX plane operated by Alaska Airlines that departed from Portland, Oregon, ...
The National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) ongoing hearing into the January in-flight failure of a Boeing 737 Max 9’s door plug has highlighted problems at Boeing’s Renton site, including ...
Spark plugs play a key role in igniting the air-fuel mixture that enables the engine to transition from cranking to running on its own. Considering the relatively lengthy service life of these small ...
Hmmm… shoddy workmanship in manufacture? IF SO, then Boeing … the company … goes down. EVERY other plane they’ve made becomes suspect. Every one, say in the ...