This is weird need Help asap.

[BruhBrahBrad]

I changed the plugs on my car, now its making funny noises out the exhaust. It sounds like popcorn. And you can feel the air coming out the tailpipes is weird...What could this be?
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I drove the car a lil bit and it seems to drive fine...but itss makin fugged up noises.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Have you double checked all the wires? Did you corssthread any plugs? Did you change them one plug/wire at a time?

 

[BruhBrahBrad]

Right now i am triple checking, I did them one by one. So no mix ups.. but I went ahead and checked the wires again... I dont know what the hell.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Is this on a 5.0 or a 4.6?

 

[Win]

This is his new 4.6 hence the specific forum he put it in :tongue3:

Still acting up i see. It could be a bad wire or a wire that was going bad and you just maybe bent it the wrong way and it's not allowing the current through it now completely. i have had a problem once in the past that if the wires were all over each other and not in there proper places it caused it to run crappy. This only happened thoguh b/c the wires were old.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

This is his new 4.6 hence the specific forum he put it in :tongue3:

Gotta make sure 5.0's are 2vs too :thefinger:

Unfortunately, early 4.6s only engage three threads on the plugs, it's very easy to strip them, some of them blow out of the head on their own.

 

[BruhBrahBrad]

OH I know about that... I blew one out within a month of havin the car...but I find it weird, that this car ran decent, with one plug barely open, but not with 8 brand new plugs.. I gapped them to .054 like twice already...but I was like wtf so i checked to see what the old ones were gapped at and they were at .045 which is not what the spec is. but the car ran fine.

 

[Lee12609]

if its a random pop its most likely a mixed up plug wire location.

i like .045 gap personally on a stock or bolt on car, and less for a F/I car. you wont notice a difference in .045 and .055 but the smaller gap is less likely to create a problem if a coil is going bad.

 

[BruhBrahBrad]

OK so if I checked and they are all correct, what could be causing the random pop? This is getting annoying, I been working on this all day, checking a rechecking gaps, wire locations. I had a spark plug socket rubber stuck on one of the plugs, took me 2 hours to get the b!tch off.

 

[Lee12609]

how do you know they are all correct? i still say wire in wrong spot. does it sound like a firecracker in the muffler everynow and then?

 

[BruhBrahBrad]

Yeah It sounds like that... I have a manual right here, thats what im going off of.. The wires are correct..I have checked 3 times.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

if its a random pop its most likely a mixed up plug wire location.

i like .045 gap personally on a stock or bolt on car, and less for a F/I car. you wont notice a difference in .045 and .055 but the smaller gap is less likely to create a problem if a coil is going bad.

Exactly, a tighter gap helps keep em lit, try putting them to .042

 

[WHEELMAN]

WAS THE NEW PLUGS-LONGER THEN THE OLD ONES..may be hitting the top of the piston-did you check the tips of the plugs-did you crack one.installing them-years ago-when i would change a set of plugs.one wire-would get damaged.so i started-installing new.wires..when i change plugs..one rubber boot-could be down and the tip of the wire.could be just touching.i all ways.use never seize-on aluminum threads..

 

[Lee12609]

only time i've EVERY heard the muffler pop at idle like a firecracker is when the plug wires are crossed, so if you're certain they are right then i dont have a clue.

 

[BruhBrahBrad]

This Fuckingsucks. Thanks for the help. Im tired of this damn car. I wanna fix this problem and get a old school so bad.

 

[BruhBrahBrad]

bump

 

[BruhBrahBrad]

I got a check engine light but I cant check it, no obd2 reader. And kragen doesnt check em...Ima call Autozone and see if they check em in the morning.

 

[BruhBrahBrad]

bump anymore help please?

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Autozone checks cels for free..

Did you knock any vacuum lines loose? have you regapped the plugs?

 

[BruhBrahBrad]

I called the autozone by me, and they dont check codes...which is gay. I did regap the plugs.. ON a weird note, this morning I got up and disconnected and reconnected all the wires and fuel injectors, and it was fine. Until I made a hard turn then It started actin shtty again. Im thinkin one of these plugs is just fubared... i need to get somewhere where they can check the codes so I know which cylinder is giving the problem