Yeah Jay you came off asbeing veryrude and get those plat's out of your engine they are garbage. There is some homework.

 

Well, good evening gentlemen...Now that I have rattled all of your cages, let me start off by saying I am not here to offend, discredit, or just plain old **** anybody off. I wouldnt continue coming to this sight in search of info, if I felt that you all were a bunch of numb skulls with nothing to offer. Which is obviously not the case. I enjoy this site, and have found it useful. I was merely trying to get the point across that before someone tries telling everyone else they are wrong about something, repeatedly, they might just want to take a minute to make sure they are right first. I am not claiming to know everything, by no means. But between the 3 of you guys, you all came down on my initial oppinion, and the owners account of what was actually going on as being totally impossible. When you guys were going on nothing more than knowing what you have under your own hoods, basically, and without taking the few minutes to see what else or why else, what we were saying could be true. Thats why I came back with a little attitude. But thats life....And to answer what I believe was the question... The reason that they are called Overhead cams is because the camshafts are not located in their usual spots as in a standard inline or V configured engine, which would be directly above the crankshaft, in the middle of the block. In OHC engines they are either in the head, or directly on top of the head, under the valve cover/s. SOHC motors are called such, because there is only 1 cam shaft per head so since a v configured motor has 2 heads each head has 1 camshaft each, with each camshaft having its own cam gear, each camshaft gear in a 4.7 is then connected by its own chain to a idler gear/pulley, which is then connected by a 3rd chain to the crankshaft. An example of a Twin cam,or Dual Overhead Cam(DOHC) engine would be the Saturn or GM's 2.4l. One inline 4 cylinder with one head, but with 2 camshafts in the head. How did I do, Hydro? Oh and Mean Green... I have absolutely No Intention of removing my Bosche Platinum +4's. They have been in for over a year and a half now, and I have no complaints at all. The truck runs great. I have read just about all the posts on platinum plugs, and the only one that really made any sense was by a guy in the Intrepid forums. But that more or less pertained to the multiple electrode plugs. What people just dont understand is, that all a spark plug is, is just a means for the electricity to travel that last 2-3 inches before it is given its chance to make an arc to ignite the fuel. And that the better the conductor you have, meaning less resistance to travel that short distance, the better spark you will have, resulting in a better running, more fuel efficient engine. Now who is to say that all these people that have had problems when they put platinum plugs in, didnt screw up by not connecting a plug wire correctly, or something stupid like that. And then magically fixed the problem when they went back to the regular copper core plugs, and hooked it up correctly the second time around with out even knowing. I have been using Bosche platinums for the last 10 years, and in all my cars, they are a great plug. Well time for bed fella's...hope we can all get along now...I just hate to see good people getting bad info, that could potentially cost them a lot of money.

Jay

 

Thanks Hydra and Mean for having my back in my absense. Jay wants to love with Platinum+4s without hesitation, that says enough for me about him.

Hey Jay, how about a space or two in your diatribes every once in a while? Dribble is hard enough to read as it is. Stop the bitchin' and help the guy.

You started your post with... and I quote... "Im not too familliar with the valve covers on our Durango's, but if they are made from". So let's see, you simply exuded confidence in your post by starting out with mispellings and "I'm not too familiar with" and "but if they are made with". NOW a couple of posts later you are THE expert? You obviously slept in a Holiday Inn Express last night. Congrats! That continental breakfast must have been wonderful too.

I ponder this, your 2000 SLT+ has a 4.7L? Hummmm, okay. If you say so.

IndyDurango <--- fairly certain he has done plenty of Durango "homework" LOL

 

Just in case you failed to notice I said nothing about your comments on the valve cover because it sounds like you are educated about that but you did come off as being an *** and nowone likes that especially when you don't hold any weight on the board here...

Everyone is here to learn from each other without being belittled...

 

I have to say wow..[sm=badbadbad.gif] this has been one funny yet good post to learn from.. cant we all just get along.. hahahaha and for homework I was always bad at it.. thats why I cheated.. hahhaa yeah right.. thanks for advice and duff. hope your D drives well for all your fishing this summer... I am planning to be boating as well..

 

Hey Jpondo... welcome back!

Where ya been? LTNS

IndyDurango

 

Ok there is some REALLY FUNNY **** going on here. [sm=icon_rofl.gif]
But thanks for the write up. I do agree with Indy Let's get back on track here.

So what was the problem again? I got lost in all the diatribes.