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bigshug
#1
Morning guys,
Does anyone know what the spark plug gap should be on the 7A-FE 1.8 engine, I just wanted to give mine a check, cheers.
HectortheRican
#2
0.028 inches thumbsup.gif

This post has been edited by HectortheRican: Feb 5, 2011 - 4:30 AM
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96stgreendemon
#4
Hmm, they have always told me .32 SOB
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HectortheRican
#5
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QUOTE (96stgreendemon @ Feb 7, 2011 - 9:40 AM) *
>Hmm, they have always told me .32 SOB

Really? I looked at my repair manual and I searched online when I replaced my plugs and both said 0.028

This post has been edited by HectortheRican: Feb 7, 2011 - 11:07 AM
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Smaay
#6
.028 sounds a little tight, thats getting into turbo applications. are you sure that not in MM?
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HectortheRican
#7
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QUOTE (Smaay @ Feb 7, 2011 - 7:24 PM) *
>.028 sounds a little tight, thats getting into turbo applications. are you sure that not in MM?

100% positive. I looked it up online and my Haynes repair manual said so. 0.028 inches.
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4-eyed-freek
#8
do you guys use copper plugs or the platnum ones. because i know like iridium and platnum one donthave to be gap checked.and also if you try to change the gap lol yea... doesnt work so well. i found out first hand.
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HectortheRican
#9
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QUOTE (4-eyed-freek @ Feb 9, 2011 - 10:23 AM) *
>do you guys use copper plugs or the platnum ones. because i know like iridium and platnum one donthave to be gap checked.and also if you try to change the gap lol yea... doesnt work so well. i found out first hand.

Yeah they do have to be gap checked. The gap for my car is 0.028 and the platinum NGK plugs I got were all gapped to 0.035. To just need to be careful and use a wire gap tool instead of the conventional one.
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4-eyed-freek
#10
wait so you have changed the gap on you platnum plugs? or iridium? hmm
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HectortheRican
#11
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QUOTE (4-eyed-freek @ Feb 9, 2011 - 11:11 AM) *
>wait so you have changed the gap on you platnum plugs? or iridium? hmm

Mine were platinum and yeah I changed the gap.
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4-eyed-freek
#12
how long ago did you change them? or i should say when did you gap them last?
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Stu37363
#13
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QUOTE (bigshug @ Feb 5, 2011 - 3:49 AM) *
>Morning guys,
Does anyone know what the spark plug gap should be on the 7A-FE 1.8 engine, I just wanted to give mine a check, cheers.


BGB says 0.8mm (0.031 in.)
HectortheRican
#14
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QUOTE (4-eyed-freek @ Feb 9, 2011 - 9:47 PM) *
>how long ago did you change them? or i should say when did you gap them last?

I changed them on January 15th.
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