Anyone ever seen these before?

[JBailey]

I was helping my buddy work on his '65 Olds Jetstar 88 tonight and when we pulled the spark plugs on the driver's side we found something neither of us had seen before. I was wondering if anyone here has and what the heck they are exactly?

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These were only on four plugs on the driver's side of the car, the other four didn't have them. Any ideas guys?

 

[earthman]

anti-foulers...the motor is probably burning oil

 

[26Troadster]

what earthman said. save them as i don't think they make them anymore. something you can stump your buddies with.

 

[Old Iron]

Had to run them on a 64 Chevy 6 cylinder when I was young and broke.

 

[JBailey]

Thanks earthman. They do still make them and people even use them on O2 sensors when the remove catilitic converters apperantly lol. I'd never seen them used before. Thanks again guys!

 

[Yankee Transplant]

Ive got a set on a farm-all tractor ,, they do work

 

[05snopro440]

Thanks earthman. They do still make them and people even use them on O2 sensors when the remove catilitic converters apperantly lol. I'd never seen them used before. Thanks again guys!

Yeah, they pull the O2 sensor out of the pipe so that it doesn't react the same to the mixture in the pipe and tricks the computer. I've never done it but heard it works.

I've actually never seen them used either. Thanks for sharing.

 

[shakey56]

Yeah.....it does work on the O2 sensor. A buddy did it on an Xterra for me. Beats $950 for a Cat! Turned the light off and it never came back on.

 

[donsrods]

NAPA still sells them, I bought a couple when my Son's Olds had that ring problem and was fouling a couple of plugs. They only worked marginally, but he had some broken rings so nothing was really going to fix the problem except the rebuild, which we had to do.

Don

 

[bruno]

I owned a lot of smokers in the mid 60's and they did keep the plugs from fouling so often. I worked in an Enco service station and used to use the spark plug cleaner a lot. For you younger guys the old spark plug cleaners were mini sandblasters.

 

[donsrods]

Me too, Bruno. We didn't automatically replace plugs back then, we would put the end down into the blaster, hit the button, and the sand inside would sandblast the end of the plug clean.

I think sometimes today a lot of plugs are changed that really do not need to be changed, but we are a throwaway society any more.

Don

 

[JBailey]

Shoot Don, I still recycle plugs lol. Just hit em with the wire wheel and use em again, but I'm cheap and plugs aren't so much anymore.

 

[1952B3b23]

Very cool i had no idea those even existed. Thanks for sharing.

-Chris

 

[blacksheep]

I had 4 of those in my 67 international scout. Purred like a kitten, and not a skeeter in my neighborhood. Hahaha