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Old Jan 24, 2019 | 03:52 PM
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I just put new spark plugs in my 5.2 liter 01 Dodge ram 1500 and now it smells like sulfur /burning something and is lacking power now any ideas????
 
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Old Jan 24, 2019 | 04:06 PM
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What plugs did you install? Do anything else while you were under the hood?
 
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Old Jan 24, 2019 | 05:07 PM
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Champion copper plus pulgs is what I put in and the only other thing is I put new wires on
 
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Old Jan 24, 2019 | 05:07 PM
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Champion plus plugs and also new set of wires
 
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Old Jan 24, 2019 | 05:08 PM
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Those should work fine.... Pull a couple of the easy ones, see if they are wet.
 
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Old Jan 24, 2019 | 06:10 PM
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Did you gap them, or just install out of the box?
 
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Old Jan 24, 2019 | 10:44 PM
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They were pre gapped and I checked just to make sure and they were all correct 0.040 and also just pulled all the plugs none were wet
 
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Check fuel pressure.
 
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Crossed the wires up?
 
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Wire touching exhaust manifold? Did you do the TSB reroute? All wires clicked properly on both cap and plug? Did you replace the cap and rotor, too?
 
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