Spark plugs are essential for gas-powered engines. However, they're not all created equal. Here's what can happen if you use ...

Spark plugs are critical components of any gasoline engine, but since they ignite the compressed mixture of fuel and oxygen millions of times during their lifespan, they eventually cease to fire and ...

An internal combustion engine needs three things to get going: Air, fuel, and spark. The throttle body and intake plenum feed air, while injectors spray the right fuel mix into the combustion chamber.

Read a good spark plug lately? We hope so, for your engine's sake. But spark plug reading—the traditional way to check your fuel mixture and monitor other vital conditions in the combustion chamber ...

Spark plugs play a key role in keeping your engine running, since it's that little jolt of electricity that ignites the fuel/air mixture in a motor's cylinders. And that little spark has to be ...

In the early '70s, Mopar changed the concept of a tune-up with the introduction of the breakerless, capacitor-discharged ignition system. Thus began the evolution of electronic engine controls. since ...

The Ford 5.4L Triton three-valve engine is a great powerplant and comes from the factory with Motorcraft platinum tipped spark plugs rated to last 100K miles. However, if you’ve blindly attempted to ...

Q: In a recent column you responded to R.W. from Minnetonka, Minn., that he should not need spark plug replacement of the platinum tipped plugs until the manufacturer recommended 60,000 miles. One ...

In olden times, part of the ritual of changing your engine's spark plugs was making sure that the gap was set correctly for optimum performance. That is, the distance between the spark plug's center ...