Spark plugs are an essential part of your engine’s operation. When your engine fires, it’s the spark that causes the ignition cycle to begin. Over time, spark plugs wear out and should be replaced. If ...

Checking, replacing and maintaining your spark plugs is actually one of the easier and most affordable car-maintenance jobs you can do in the comfort of your own driveway — that is, if you don’t screw ...

Spark plugs are essential for cars with internal combustion engines. However, they can seize up and get stuck. Here's how to ...

Removing a broken spark plug can pose a significant risk to the integrity of your engine, particularly in Ford’s 3-valve ...

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.

If you find that a bumpy road broke off the end of one of your old spark plugs, you should probably call a tow truck. Just don't try to MacGyver your car like I did. The last time I got my car out of ...

Misfiring, rough idling, poor acceleration, and decreased fuel efficiency — the four ominous horsemen of bad spark plugs. Nobody wants to ever get to that point before desperately changing such a ...

When building a custom engine combination, it becomes a challenge to choose the right spark plugs, since there are often no factory reference points from which to start. And this is much more than ...

On the surface,spark plug wiresare a pretty basic part they carry spark energy from the distributor (or coil) to the spark plugs. But when you actually go to purchase a set, you find out that there ...

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 ...

If you are the owner of a Ford truck with a three-valve (3V) modular V-8 or V-10 engine built from 2004 thru 2007, you have either faced the misery of broken spark plugs-or you will. The Ford 4.6L, ...

How long spark plugs last varies with different cars and different types of spark plugs. Older cars often had to have their spark plugs replaced every 5,000 to 10,000 miles, while some newer cars — ...