Dodgy spark plug in 05' ZX6

BrettP1975 · Post by **BrettP1975** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:41 pm

G'day folks,
Kinda spewed today, took my ZX636 down to the bike shop this morning for suspected blown exhaust gaskets, (to me that's what it really sounded like as there seemed to be no real loss of power), when I rang to see how the bike was going they said nothing wrong with gaskets, the popping sound I could hear was number 3 spark plug had "popped out", got me buggered how a plug pops out???

Just my f'ing luck....

h.b.bear · Post by **h.b.bear** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:49 pm

may have been x threaded in the past and the vibration has caused it to loosen

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:24 pm

Shit mate, spark plug popping out sounds ominous. It might be fucked and need a new head? Maybe they have already helicoiled it and the heli has failed? Tell ya what, just to save you the puss and pain. I'll take that crappy old 636 off your hands for $50 and I'll even collect it!

Jonnymac · Post by **Jonnymac** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:32 pm

$51.50 collected

born green · Post by **born green** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:03 pm

Jonnymac wrote:$51.50 collected

I would offer $55, but i dont ride pissy little 600"s

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:30 pm

You're just pissy cause all you ever see of them is up there exhaust pipe as they disappear out of turn one on ya ya old bastard!

born green · Post by **born green** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:44 pm

Strika wrote:You're just pissy cause all you ever see of them is up there exhaust pipe as they disappear out of turn one on ya ya old bastard!

Hahaha, we will see on sat................ turn 1, where's that again

dickfaber · Post by **dickfaber** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:14 pm

seems plug makers are going to shit
recently had 2 brand new quality jap name brand plugs (3 letters, you guess) in my v8 ute blow the ceramic out of the plug body (the metal bit). no silly 100394:1 compression, just a pair of shit plugs.
also had some german plugs in my stink weed just die same week. just lost continuity between terminal and electrode.

and then the mower has the terminal of the plug just fall out. plug less than a month old.

just crap manufacturing (probobly all made in china anyway!)

TONY-J · Post by **TONY-J** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:55 pm

dickfaber wrote:seems plug makers are going to shit
recently had 2 brand new quality jap name brand plugs (3 letters, you guess) in my v8 ute blow the ceramic out of the plug body (the metal bit). no silly 100394:1 compression, just a pair of shit plugs.
also had some german plugs in my stink weed just die same week. just lost continuity between terminal and electrode.

and then the mower has the terminal of the plug just fall out. plug less than a month old.

just crap manufacturing (probobly all made in china anyway!)

i had a plug just die on me last week on my zzr1100, no warning at all one minute bike was runing fine, turned it off then went to restart and lost 1 cylinder, 4 new plugs an now all cylinders fire?

BrettP1975 · Post by **BrettP1975** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:41 pm

Got a call from my bike shop today.... thank f**k it was a shit thread on number 3 spark plug so 4 new plugs and new leads etc i get her back Monday.......

BrettP1975 · Post by **BrettP1975** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:44 pm

born green wrote:
Jonnymac wrote:$51.50 collected

I would offer $55, but i dont ride pissy little 600"s

PISSY??? that coming from a Ford driver lol

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