ORIGINAL: w8ye
ORIGINAL: av8tor1977
My dad used to be able to do that, but I hate getting shocked. I would see him pull plug wires on a running car to find a dead cylinder, and he would jerk just a little bit and say
My dad would do that too on a lawnmower.
At work I had a maintenance man working on a real small fork lift and a janitor came up bragging that he could grab the plug wires at the spark plugs and stop the engine if it was idling. He lighted up like a hog at the slaughterhouse when he grabbed those plugs. But eventually the engine quit. I don't think he was worth a toot the rest of the day?
The moral to this story is: I don't think it is a very good idea to be holding spark plug wires.
Did the forklift's engine have a coil for each sparkplug?
On my 90 4runner I've been popped and that thing only has one coil feeding 6 spark plugs ala distributor...shocked the everlivingpiss out of me. Tingled for a few minutes but that was it.
I then got smart and used a set of long pliers to goof around -as long as the boot was within about 2" of the end of the plug, the spark would jump from the spark plug boot to the electrode of the plug. Beyond 2" and that electricity REALLY wanted to find a ground and a few times popped me even through the pliers, although not nearly as badly as the first, unadulterated hit....LOL!