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Old 12-24-2004, 03:49 AM
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i was messing around with my intake area and some how i got shocked by a sparkplug wire, guess its leaking a spark of some sort... there msd and less then a year old, does this mean one is bad?
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Old 12-24-2004, 04:30 AM
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can you see it arcing to anything?
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Old 12-24-2004, 04:49 AM
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what kinda wires?
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Old 12-24-2004, 07:53 AM
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like i said, msd [:-], no i cannot see an arc, i just got shocked, and the wires are all on all the way... guess ones bad..... sux coz msd wires are hella expinsive
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i was messing around with my intake area and some how i got shocked by a sparkplug wire, guess its leaking a spark of some sort... there msd and less then a year old, does this mean one is bad?
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Old 12-24-2004, 11:56 AM
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haha thats gotta sucks - I've gotten bit a few times and it sucks rofl. good plug wires and that shouldn't happen
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Old 12-24-2004, 12:54 PM
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thought msd was good LOL they costed me like 80 bucks... o well.... it wasnt enough to kill me, just **** me off[sm=icon_rofl.gif]
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Old 12-24-2004, 01:01 PM
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Which version of MSD wires do you have?
I suppose any wire can shock you if it has micro cracks in it...did you inspect while bending it?
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Old 12-24-2004, 11:35 PM
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just be glad you didn't have an MSD ignition or it would have really lit your fire when it shocked you! if you can't see or hear any arcing when it's dark under the hood then the spark ain't jumping to ground anywhere so it won't hurt your performance any.
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Old 12-25-2004, 12:26 AM
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just be glad you didn't have an MSD ignition or it would have really lit your fire when it shocked you! if you can't see or hear any arcing when it's dark under the hood then the spark ain't jumping to ground anywhere so it won't hurt your performance any.



thats what i was thinkin, dont really wanna spend 60ish dollars on wires right now[:-]
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