On Jan 31, 7:18*pm, "Leon" wrote:
"krw" wrote in message

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On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:03:55 -0600, Dave Balderstone
wrote:
I still recall fondly standing INSIDE the engine compartment of an old
F150 straight 6 doing a complete tuneup including valve adjustments...

The bad news was that you *had* to do frequent tune-ups. *Good
riddance coils and points!

True, about every 12,000 miles but it typically took less time to change the
plugs, points, condenser, and rotor than it did to change the oil. *That
said, my 97 Chevy pu had close to 80K when I traded it in and it had the
original plugs.

They'd go on my cars on *the* nastiest day of the year (33F and
rain). No thanks.
I think my Ranger still has its original plugs (9 years/90Kmi). I
know it has its original wires.

OTOH, I had a '93 Eagle Vision that would throw a set of wires every
year. The book said it was a 3-hour job but I got it down to an hour
clock time by making my own tools to route the wires under the intake
manifold and fuel rail. A set of wires was $100 from Chrysler and the
after-market wires did not fit. It turns out that the label on the
engine had the wrong spark gap listed. It was only off by a factor of
two. :-(