What does having spark plugs gapped mean?

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Going to change my spark plugs and coils this weekend. I had a mechanic change them last October but I used cheap coils and now I'm paying the price with all kind of misfires and car rides like ****. I just wanted to know what does having the spark plugs gapped mean?

04 V8 Sport
 
I don't have to use google to answer your question.

Spark plugs have a pair of electrodes on their business end. The ignition creates a spark that jumps between one electrode and the other. For best function the space between the electrodes should be precise. You can buy a gauge where you buy the plugs. Bend the side electrode slightly, when necessary, in order to attain the proper gap.

Good luck!

KS
 
cammerfe said:
I don't have to use google to answer your question.

Spark plugs have a pair of electrodes on their business end. The ignition creates a spark that jumps between one electrode and the other. For best function the space between the electrodes should be precise. You can buy a gauge where you buy the plugs. Bend the side electrode slightly, when necessary, in order to attain the proper gap.

Good luck!

KS
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The point (I'm sure) was to try to teach the OP how to fish. You probably won't always be close at hand to answer his questions, but Google might very well be. I'd bet that izzy didn't need Google for this either.
 
not to mention, the best part of google is that you dont need to wait around for someone to answer your question, you can get it right away and get back to business without any down time...

even better, there will almost always be video links that not only tell you what gapping your plugs is BUT will also SHOW you how to do it. (aka "YouTube University")


is google necessary? no not at all, but it is a much better tool for learning and getting most simple questions answered. however if sitting around for anywhere between 30 min (lucky one today with the LMGTFY answer coming fairly quickly) or in in the case of your answer, 9 hours later not being able to do what you want is your thing, then go ahead ask away.
 
There are many here who are challenged in various ways. And others who 'take a cut' when they can. I'm a pretty good researcher and yet I have asked questions here many times. I'm grateful for the help I've received and, when possible, I think it proper to pass it on. 'Do unto others...'

KS
 
which is why he gave him the exact answer and even showed him the best way possible to find it out.
 
What's 'exact' about a smart-ass 'look it up'? The butt-hurt is occasionally very strong here.

KS
 
cammerfe said:
What's 'exact' about a smart-ass 'look it up'?
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well honestly, it wasn't a smart ass "look it up" as much as it was a smart ass "here, I went ahead of did the hard work of looking it up for you".

on top of giving you the top search results, google will now answer questions for you...

if the question is
Jesus A Rodriguez said:
What does having spark plugs gapped mean?
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then you really dont get much more of an exact answer than
"Adjusting the distance between the two electrodes is called gapping your spark plugs. You need a feeler gauge to gap your spark plugs properly. Gap new as well as old spark plugs, even if the package says that the new plugs are “pre-gapped.”
which is the answer google gave.




cammerfe said:
The butt-hurt is occasionally very strong here.
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well this is america, lately it seems that we have got a bad case of butt-hurt all the time about something...
 
When I clicked on the suggested source I got a blank google screen. Was your experience different?

KS
 
cammerfe said:
When I clicked on the suggested source I got a blank google screen. Was your experience different?

KS
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All links on that Google page are working for me (well, at least the first five I tried, including the "How to Gap Your Spark Plugs - For Dummies").

Maybe my problem here is my engineering perspective. We were taught how to find the correct answer more so than being taught the answer itself.
 
Joe, I'll bow to no one in my respect for your input here. Please note that I wasn't searching for an answer for myself but instead I wandered in here to try to be of help to someone who is, from the content of earlier postings, perhaps a bit challenged when it comes to car subjects. I've seen other iterations of the smart-ass 'here let me help you out' sort and when I got nothing but a blank google screen I simply went ahead and supplied a basic answer.

I, too, have an engineering background going back to my time at FoMoCo as a metallurgical process engineer. And in regard to providing a fish or teaching fishing, if you're too hungry to learn how to fish before going after your own, the gift of a fish might be the best there can be. ;)

KS
 
No smart ass comments from the "peanut gallery" ? I'm shocked.
 
cammerfe said:
When I clicked on the suggested source I got a blank google screen. Was your experience different?

KS
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extremely...

when I click on the link, you are taken to a google page, were it shows you what to type in, then it does the search for you, then all the answers show up, including the "definition" google finds appropriate (which was very precise) along with a bunch of links explaining how to do it (some with pictures) and links to videos showing you exactly how to do it.




which browser are you using? I haven't seen one where LMGTFY didn't work.
 
1LoudLS said:
extremely...

when I click on the link, you are taken to a google page, were it shows you what to type in, then it does the search for you, then all the answers show up, including the "definition" google finds appropriate (which was very precise) along with a bunch of links explaining how to do it (some with pictures) and links to videos showing you exactly how to do it.




which browser are you using? I haven't seen one where LMGTFY didn't work.
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I use 'chrome'. When I click on the provided link I get, after a few seconds, a pop-up on the google screen that tries to sell me a new version of javascript. That's where I clicked off the first time. When I just tried it again a minute ago, I finally got the LMGTFY screen after another few seconds wait.

It seems much more simple to answer the question.

KS
 
cammerfe said:
I use 'chrome'. When I click on the provided link I get, after a few seconds, a pop-up on the google screen that tries to sell me a new version of javascript. That's where I clicked off the first time. When I just tried it again a minute ago, I finally got the LMGTFY screen after another few seconds wait.

It seems much more simple to answer the question.

KS
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I am also using 'chrome' and the link takes me right to the search results; after the obligatory fill-in-the-search-box.
 
I only use chrome and its as fast as a 2016 Ford GT.

click on it and it starts by the time the mouse unclicks... well at least the LMGTFY animation, the search result says it took .34 seconds.





yes, while clicking on a link may not be as simple as reading the next response. just imagine where we would be if all the time we spent in school was spent getting all the answers with out showing you how to get them. it probably would be as good. just saying.
 
I provided in my original response the LMGTFY link because I didn't want to foul up the answer. I am well aware of why, what and how to gap spark plugs. But I tend to ramble also. Additionally, I was also hoping that the OP would see that there are much better tools for gaining information on non-LS related subjects and questions than LVC. I was not attempting to be a smart ass or brush someone off. I think that the OP got his answer though since he hasn't been back to say anything on this thread. I could be wrong though.
 
I don't know why peeps need to get so butt hurt over this LMGTFY answers anyhow.

Is it possibly because they got the answer but in a way that shows them they could have done it themselves?
Is it funny to others so therefor when they are shown this link they automatically feel they have been put down?

I don't understand what the big deal is, so you were given a link with the answers where someone illustrates how to search for answers.

BIG DEAL!!! ... bunch of preMadonnas on here as of late that need daily spoon feeding, can't read, don't care to read, didn't like the answers or what not.

Majority of the time, they are given an answer to their question and get all offended when the so called "peanut gallery" dares suggest that's it's been covered a couple of hundred times already and could have been found by means of searching and reading.

Not loosing any sleep over it, you ask a question, you'll get several responses and guaranteed one will be that it can be found by doing a search.


LMGTFY
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... could of course also simply not provide answers, they'd be butt hurting over that also.
 
BigRigLS said:
I don't know why peeps need to get so butt hurt over this LMGTFY answers anyhow.

Is it possibly because they got the answer but in a way that shows them they could have done it themselves?
Is it funny to others so therefor when they are shown this link they automatically feel they have been put down?

I don't understand what the big deal is, so you were given a link with the answers where someone illustrates how to search for answers.

BIG DEAL!!! ... bunch of preMadonnas on here as of late that need daily spoon feeding, can't read, don't care to read, didn't like the answers or what not.

Majority of the time, they are given an answer to their question and get all offended when the so called "peanut gallery" dares suggest that's it's been covered a couple of hundred times already and could have been found by means of searching and reading.

Not loosing any sleep over it, you ask a question, you'll get several responses and guaranteed one will be that it can be found by doing a search.


LMGTFY
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... could of course also simply not provide answers, they'd be butt hurting over that also.
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It's the sad state of society today..... Do for me as I shouldn't have to do for myself. I don't have the time but "you" do. I'm too important to have to do my own research. More to the point, I'm too lazy to put in the effort! What ever happened to the satisfaction of solving a problem for ones self????
 
It's my belief that "Let Me Google That For You" is inherently smart-ass. You're implying incompetence on the part of the question originator. And although it might well be true, considering the wide variety of abilities to be found on here, jamming somebody's nose in it is counterproductive to civil discourse. My own approach is to pay back or pay forward, considering all the help I've received here. But that's just me.

Witness this thread.

KS

On an allied subject, I'm glad that your computer is faster than mine by a second or two.
 
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