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Hello! The High tension wire connector which snaps onto the spark plug:Is it supposed to be a little "loose"?? Shouldnt it snap on and be very tight?Is this just the way it was designed at Chevrolet?

The correct connectors for the spark plugs are brass and there is a Chevrolet Bow Tie stamped on the top of each connector. When in place on the end of the spark plugs, the connectors should be fairly snug but they will still tend to be just a little loose.

I dont think it is fairly snug...

The connectors should not be loose enough to fall off. They should snap into place and rotate on the spark plug, but still be snug. If they have a little movement that should be okay....but you don't want them loose.

If they seem too loose, take a pair of gas pliers and very gently close them down a bit. As long as they "snap" on when you push them onto the plugs, they'll still make a good connection. The point is that you don't want them to vibrate off as you're going down the road.

Hope that helps.

All the Best,

Chip

If the wires can be taken off with out a little tug they are lose, then follow Chip post

Chip,
I am curious "What are gas pliers?" I have led a sheltered life and to my memory never was introduced to a pair of "gas pliers".

Gas pliers are used on gas!! Holy Cow anyway!!

So Skip, do you use gas pliers to bend the gas? Or maybe to hold onto it? :vcca:

I think he grabs onto it before he sticks it up his ....... nose! With out gas he can't bark.

Hey!!! I can bark with or without gas! With gas my bark is at a higher pitch however.

When you use gas pliers you don't hold on to the gas or bend the gas.....you turn the gas off! I thought everyone knew that.

All right, Chipper, you started this:

From Answers.com:

(′gas ′plī·ərz)
(design engineering) Pliers for gripping round objects such as pipes, tubes, and circular rods.



However, in my case, it's ANY kind of pliers. If I squeeze them really, really hard, you get gas. (You asked).



To be fair, it's really just an old-fashioned name for slip-joint pliers.



Now what the scrap yard pooch is talking about, who knows?????

All the Best, Chip.

The connector is loose where it moves in and out though it still needs to be tugged at to come off.I wander if the aluminum spark plug end is incorrect. I solved it by removing the threaded aluminum end on spark plug and cutting off some length.NOW it wont move.I guess I didnt think crimping it more would help.Thanks guys for your input! MMmmm gas pliers.....

Sorry but what did you cut off I do not under stand it might be just me.

Chip,
Thanks for the explanation. Kinda, sorta guessed that was what gas pliers meant but not sure.

You can't always tell what the dogface is barking about. Do know in a previous life he was a gas meter reader. Maybe he whiffed to much of the stuff.

Nope.....I hate the smell of gas! Anyway, at the gas company we used gas pliers all the time for turning off the gas. Man, where you dudes are coming from with this gas plier definition thing is beyond me but you guys need to get a grip....on the pliers that is!

Oh! you are talking about Channel Locks or the smaller ones that are water pump pliers! Heck :vcca: why didn't you say WATER PUMP PLIERS in the first place...my word..Gas Pliers, I never heard of Gas pliers!... I guess that when you really put the maximum grip into the effort that you hear a squeek from behind and those pliers let the gas out ?

Exactly Mr. Mack!!! That's how they got their name.

Now about this ball peen hammer, I don't know, but I do know that a crescent wrench will round off your nuts and that's not a good thing.

Have we wandered off the topic far enough here?

All the Best, Chip

On the spark plug there is a threaded aluminum ferrel.I unscrewed it and cut some length off.

What spark plugs are you using?

I was reading an old 1937" Western Auto Parts" catalog and they sold "Gas Pliers"! These of course were used for the water pump.

I learn something every day on Chat II.

Has anyone noticed that if you pull off #4 plug wire it acts like there is nothing getting to the cyl, In othere words it acts dead?? I have checked everything and can not find anything wrong, But it acts like #4 is not getting spark and not fireing, No skip noticed .Very puzzleing, Mike CCr7, this is on the 194cu/in 1929 engine.comp is OK also.

The number four cylinder should have spark just the same as the other five cylinders. Check your spark plug wire for continuity.

I was going to say "Pull the #4 sparkplug wire out of the distributor and stick your finger in the hole."... while the car is running to see if spark is getting to #4 from the coil, but that would be cruel.......... :vcca: