plug wire

[ben's93talon]

so today i was driving and my car started making a weird noise and so i pulled over and popped the hood and saw that my timing belt was rubbing against one of them and there sort of a v shaped cut half way through it....so i re-adjusted it so it was rubbing any more....so my question is do i need to replace it or can i just rap it up with electrical tape around it? it runs fine but i dont wanna take any chances.

 

[Mitsu RacerX]

You need to replace it nothing worse then a bad plug wire..

 

[ben's93talon]

thanks bro

 

[ben's93talon]

even though it runs fine???

 

[i_nick_2005_i]

I also have a little "V" cut into one of my wires. Thankfully I noticed before it cut the thing in half. However if it's not down to the wire (which mine isn't) it's fine. Just put some electrical tape around if you are worried. It won't arc, and it won't corrode the wire if it's not showing metal. Just a cosmetic problem.

Edit: Fix it when it starts missing out or if the wire feels "squishy" or hot to the touch after driving. If it's not warm, it's fine.

 

[ben's93talon]

yea mines goes half way.... once i get my gas tank fixed ill drive it around the block and do the thing you said....thanks for the help

 

[ben's93talon]

well all the wires were warm from the heat coming off the valve cover

 

[i_nick_2005_i]

I had a wire go out on my 420A, I first noticed a slight (very slight) hesitation when at low RPM, more precisely: when I would give it alittle gas after turning onto another road at a decent speed and leaving it in 3rd gear, just low enough RPM to make it stutter a hair. I just thought it was because maybe I should be hitting a lower gear, but then I checked my wires. They were warm, however, the one that went bad was HOT and "squishy" where it was going bad, because of the heat. Anyways, you'll know if it's going bad. Yours are fine, I promise.

 

[Defiant]

Cover your cam belt.

 

[1Gab Laser]

Cover your cam belt.

+1

This happened on my GTP but the serpentine belt instead. One of hte wires to an injector was also on the intake manifold and it melted through it.

All last summer the car was barely running and I couldn't figure out why. It'd go down the road fine until you got into a hill, then it'd start losing RPMs and get down to around 1200 and start shaking. And it'd keep trying to stall then pick up, stall and pick up every time I tried taking off from a stop. I drove around like that for a couple months because it was my only car at the time (DSM was still a project). I tried replacing all kinds of stuff.

Ends up one of my plug wires was ripped open from rubbing on the belt and one of the injector wires was melted, so I was only running on 4 cylinders (V6).

For what plug wires are gonna cost you, definitely replace them.

 

[ben's93talon]

its weird though ### it runs fine ...no hesitation at low rpms and doesn't backfire or any thing

 

[RoryBarron]

It is fine. I did the same to mine before i got a cover for my timing belt. I would definitely suggest finding a cover for it though