Wet Spar Plug- One of the problems that often hit the owner
of the vehicle is abiut the spark plug problem. Maybe you ever seen the spark
plug got wet and black, it will impact of engine to start. More people will
clean the spark, but no longer spark plugs comeback to wet the problem back to rise. So what
causes spark plugs always wet? You can find yhe answer below.
On spark ignition vehicle spark plugs become one of the
vital components of an engine. Because it has greatly affect to the engine life
cycle, the function is about to ignite air fuel mixture in the combustion
chamber when power stroke. Spark plugs, indeed produce sparks but the sparks
are not originally from the spark plug itself. Rather than a leap of electrons
that have a large amount charge so that its power can form sparks.
Spark plug performance is quite heavy because it must work
in the combustion chamber that have highly temperature and pressure. So the
problem of spark plugs often appear especially if the spark plug is not
associated to the engine specifications.
Wet spark plug problems can be caused by several things
including the oil rises to the spark plug. You need to knoe that this condition
is a sign that spark plugs are not always a problem, just spark plugs can be an
indicator of damage to certain components.
The Cause of Wet and Black Spark Plug
There are several things that can make your spark plugs come
wet and ultimately unable to sparking, among others;
1. Too rich air fuel mixture
The first cause comes from a too rich fuel mixture from
carburetor. AF mixtures containing more gasoline than normal condition (14 : 1),
it could lead to gasoline deposits around the combustion chamber including
spark plug electrodes.
Indeed for the engine is not too influential, most influence
on this issue is about the use of gasoline it be more extravagant so you need
to loss some money.
Just wet spark plug conditions can cause disruption to the
ignition system, so even though this is fairly trivial as much as possible use
carburetors with normal / ideal settings.
To adjust the gasoline mixture, it is easy to turn the
gasoline screw inside the carb. It can be adjusted using a screwdriver. If
tightened then the flow of gasoline will be more economical, on the contrary
when the screw is loosened then the fuel mixture becomes richer.
2. Engine oil leak
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Aside from gasoline, the humidity in the spark plug
electrode is also due to the oil entering the combustion chamber. Indeed oil
should operate outside the combustion chamber. When there is oil into the
combustion chamber then it can be categorized as engine oil leak.
This leak could be located on the engine valve or the
cylinder / piston rings wear out. The point of oil from the engine into the
combustion chamber when the piston operates.
Of course, not only the spark plugs are wetting but the
exhaust fumes also become white like a 2-stroke engine. White smoke is caused
by burning oil.
How to cope with oil rises to the spark plug
If the engine oil is leaking from the valve then, you just
need to skirts your valve or if theri is oil leak from valve seal you should replace
the new ones. It’s the correct. This process is fairly heavy because to replace
motor valve, you shold disassembly the head cylinder components.. So it needs
skill and knowledge as well. But if you have a set of tools, you can do it with
yourself with your own risk of course.
But when the oil leak comes from the piston ring then we
have to do the total disassembly. There are two potentially damaging components
in this case, namely piston rings and cylinder liners. The solution is to
replace the piston ring or oversize the cylinder block.
However, for wet spark plug problems because oil usually has
some other symptoms that follow such as loss power or a rougher engine sound.
3. There is water entering the engine
It is very rare actually if water can get into the engine.
But make no mistake first, when you washing your car or motorcylce, water may
water entering the air filter and inundate the filter area. For a moment you
turn on a normal machine, but the puddle can get carried by the air flow during
the intake. As a result spark plugs can be wet and the machine is difficult to start.
In addition, for engine with a construction stand like 250
cc motor cycle, it could have water pooled in the spark plug hole. And in some
time the water can enter through the spark plug hole.
Indeed for the third cause is due to our inactivity, it is
due to the construction of a closed machine and does not allow water to enter
if not intentional.
If this condition occurs repeatedly the solution, find where
the water is stagnant and make sure no more water entering the engine.
4. Fuel factor
There are many kind of gasoline, the differen of all is
about octane number. The 90-octane gasoline is better quality than 85-octane
gasoline but we do not know the contents of gasoline sold in retail. This is
because in some cases deliberately doing gasoline mixing with other materials
such as water, or oil.
Perhaps you could seen the gasoline blend mixed down the
road that has a cheaper price. This mixture can precipitate and moisten the
spark plug electrode. So it will make a ignition problem.
Especially if your car have injection technology then never
use mixed gasoline, the mixture of water or oil that is difficult to burn can
potentially damage the injector. But if you mixture from 85 to 90 octane, is
not too affected. The higher octane number, the higher engine compression range.
5. Spark plug quality factor
Aside from the outside factors it turns out the spark plug
conditions also have an effect. Motorcycle plugs that are less qualified and
not suitable for the recomended spark plug can cause problems on the engine or
on the spark plug itself.
If the fire that came out was too small, the ignition would
be more difficult so unburned fuel would precipitate on the spark plug
electrode.
What is correct solution ? use the right spark plug or
recemended spark plug that fits your engine's specifications, not just from the
hole thread only but the magnitude of resistance also needs to be taken into account.
This is because each motor has a different ignition standard, so the resulting
output is also different.
So our brief article about the causes and how to fix dry and
black spark plug. Hope can add to our insight and useful for us all. Also see
some other motor tips on Autoexpose.