Saturday, September 26, 2009

All plugged up

After a short trip to Canadian Tire, I came home with about $20 worth of stuff to fix up the bike with.

- 4 New NGK Spark Plugs ($7.99 for a pack of 2,) and
- 1 Bottle of Carb Cleaner ($3.99 for enough to use in 80L of gas)

I also picked up about $7 worth of 89 octane gas - which is enough to run it for the next 3-4 weekends at least.

This is what the new set of spark plugs look like:



This is what the old set of spark plugs look like:





Yeah. As you can see, it was well overdue. Although one of the plugs threatened to snap and break into the engine from the rust, they all came out eventually without much hassle.



That, in addition to the carb cleaner and slightly better gas, lead to a much smoother test engine run. Unfortunately it started raining so I didn't get much of a chance to really see how much better it was performing, but it's very promising so far.

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