ahahaha, mine is covered with dust from 4x4ing in that pic... wish I could keep it clean [sm=partyparty.gif]

 

hey have any of you used the champion truck series plugs. i ve had them in for about 500 miles now and things seem to be good

 

Never tried the truck series, but the old plugs were Champions, they had been in there for at least 60K & plenty of wear on the electrodes but never any problems. I had always heard Champs were a "hotter" plug, weren't as good a product, etc., so I went with autolites but IMHO there isn't much difference.

 

I hear you. With this screwed up weather we've been having here in VA there's no point in washing now, because it'll be raining or snowing the next day without fail. Still, I love a clean truck, so I wash it, then stick it in the garage for a few days & drive the 'burb, then switch back. Even then it still gets dusty. [:-]

 

Can anyone confirm the long term performance of the platinum plug?
I've got a 97 Ram 2500 4x4 with the 5.9L automatic, ran the stock Champion plugs since I got it. I run platinums in my Neon and it runs great, so I decided to go with platinums in the Ram last time I did a tune-up, it ran good for me untill recently. I just got the multiple cylinder misfire (43) codes, now it has no top end power and misses badly! I took it to the local Dodge dealer to have it looked at, the mechanic tells me I need a tune-up, and I'm using the wrong plugs! I was a little shocked, I expained to him I only put 2000 miles on since my last tune-up incuding plugs, cap, rotor, wires. He tells me the ignition sytem in a Dodge can't handle delivering the voltage required to fire platinum plugs. He said I will get a misfire condition from using them, said it would run better on the stock Champion plugs, can anyone confirm or deny this!
By the way these were Autolite platinum 3924 plugs. I just pulled one out and still looks like new!
I checked my gap, it was at .050! I recall on the package they were preset gap so I never checked, do you think I would benefit from gapping these plugs to the factory set plug gap (I think is .035 or .040) or just toss em for the stock champion RC12Yc's?

 

this probly wont help you but i know mine said the gap should be .40.. not sure if reducing the gap will help but i would try it.