strangest wtf moment this morning

[serpint]

After dropping off my fiancee this morning at work, I heard a low level *tick*tick*tick*tick* sound every second or so. Being in a rush, I didn't think anything of it and proceeded on to work. After getting to work, the sound is really loud. What I found unusual about this is that the sound followed me to work. When I heard it earlier, it sure didn't sound like it was near me.

So I get out of the car and leave it running. I notice the sound is coming from under the hood. So I pop the hood and the sound is quite loud. Searching all over the drivers side of the engine bay, I find an old plug wire (another WTF moment in itself cause I counted thrown away when I changed them). Well, that wasn't responsible for the tick - I had thought maybe the belt was smacking it it.

So I keep searching all over the car, I eventually look at the #1 plug and notice that I see WHITE where I should only see the grey of the plug cap.

MY ficken plug wire came loose after 2 weeks and 600 miles!?!?

Well no s**t it did! Funniest thing though is that I obviously drove with it like this for over an hour with no power loss or misfires being shown. The plug connector was actually still close enough to cause the cylinder to fire!

[Seppo Kaitainen]

I had number 1 plug wire pop off one time. I popped the hood and a nice white arch was jumping all over the engine bay everytime the cyl was suppose to fire. It was a pita putting it back on w/ nice hot engine and headers on the side of the road.

[Everglades W68]

Originally posted by Seppo Kaitainen:
I had number 1 plug wire pop off one time. I popped the hood and a nice white arch was jumping all over the engine bay everytime the cyl was suppose to fire.

Sounds cool; do it again and make a video of it!

[bu-bye]

yeah had that happen to me but my car had a bad missfire and felt like I had aftermarket cam. The funny thing is I actually stopped to thing about just leaving the cable unplugged. I came back down to earth a few second later but it was a nice thought.

[Ian]

sounded like an aftermarket cam minus the power increase and that whole "drivability" thing eh? lol

[bu-bye]

Originally posted by Ian:
sounded like an aftermarket cam minus the power increase and that whole "drivability" thing eh? lol

HAHAHA yeah that stupid "drivability" thing.

GM should fix that in the next model....

"New 2007 Camaro now runs with or with out plug cables for the wild cam feel :D "

[speedracer95v6]

Thats wierd. When I got my optispark wet on the corvette (I didn't know it was a problem and sprayed the engine down a little too well) it ran real lopey for a day or so. Sitting at a stoplight it idled like a drag car. [img]graemlins/rock.gif[/img]

It actually runs much better without that problem though..lol.