njtony
indiana
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Has anyone removed the heat shield aroung and used ceramic plug wires. the shields are a real pain to get off, any problems leaving them off?
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pulsar
Lewisville, NC
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CNC.R.V.er
Lincoln Park,Michigan
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We have the Jacob's plug wires on our M.H. and it still cooked wire on right rear.Fixed it by covering whole wire with heat resistant tubing.So far so good.
Chris & Linda
1989 Pace Arrow 34ft.
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Bill/Diana
Southeastern Pennsylvania
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I too use the Jacob's ceramic boot plug wires. Have used them on the MH 454 Chevy engine for the past 30,000 miles with no problem. In fact, I just replaced all the plugs, ditributor cap & rotor...the plug wires looked to be in great shape.
Bill & Diana
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Jim83Itasca
La Quinta Calif
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I use the "Heat shields" with plain old "Borg Warner select" straight boots from Pep Boys and for years along with 15,000+ miles they still are in good shape......
Jim
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Have Champion lifetime ceramic wire set on for over five year now and still no signs of any heat damage.
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njtony
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thanks to all
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MrWizard
Van Nuys, Ca
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I agree the shields are a pain, i put new wires on in the spring and swapped all the heat shields from the old wires to the new wires, also put in a new dist cap & rotor, i have new ignition & brain module on my shopping list
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BenK
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Mine don't come off when changing the plugs and they don't get in the way.
Maybe just my GMT400 era 7.4L. I like Taylor spiral wound 'wire'
I used to and probably continue to check out new types of plugs, but
have always gone back to copper (non platinum) plugs and cut back the
ground electrode. Same or similar to indexing plugs, but no reduction
in CC volume
-Ben Picture of my rig
1996 GMC SLT Suburban 3/4 ton K3500/7.4L/4:1/+150Kmiles orig owner...
1980 Chevy Silverado C10/long bed/"BUILT" 5.7L/3:73/1 ton helper springs/+329Kmiles, bought it from dad...
1998 Mazda B2500 (1/2 ton) pickup, 2nd owner...
Praise Dyno Brake equiped and all have "nose bleed" braking!
Previous trucks/offroaders: 40's Jeep restored in mid 60's / 69 DuneBuggy (approx +1K lb: VW pan/200hpCorvair: eng, cam, dual carb'w velocity stacks'n 18" runners, 4spd transaxle) made myself from ground up / 1970 Toyota FJ40 / 1973 K5 Blazer (2dr Tahoe, 1 ton axles front/rear, +255K miles when sold it)...
Sold the boat (looking for another): Trophy with twin 150's...
51 cylinders in household, what's yours?...
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