They may look like your average wires, but spark plug wires have a very important job to do. Their mission is to provide electricity from the car's 12 volt battery to the engine's spark plugs. Without ...

With any vehicle, routine maintenance is a key essential in keeping you car running in tip-top condition. When spark plug wires fail, a car will hesitate, stumble, and run erratic, especially going up ...

Recently, my son-in-law's 2005 Acura 3.2 began to misfire. While changing the spark plugs, the end of the ''coil on plug'' wire for spark plug No. 3 came off, leaving the coil in my hand and the ...

My husband and I changed the oil, spark plugs, wires, cap and rotor on our '92 Chevy Blazer yesterday — something we've done many times with no problem. When trying to restart the car, the engine ...

Have you ever watched your Mustang's ignition system in the dark with the engine running? Because ignition systems produce 20,000 to 50,000 volts of high-energy electricity, a certain amount escapes ...

Headers and spark plug wires rarely coexist in peace. Even with well-planned wire separators, one of those hot header tubes will eventually flambe the best of plug wires. The situation is aggravated ...

for mower engines. A Tachometer is a gauge on a vehicle that tells you how quickly the crankshaft of the engine is turning. It is typically a unit of measure called revolutions per minute (RPM). There ...

It seems as if spark plug wires are always in the way. If they're not cooking themselves on a header tube, they're contributing to that errant misfire that took you half a day to track down! As long ...