ORIGINAL: Bumpinyota
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?
(one coil four spark plugs)
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!
I was to change a roller in a machine one day and had a pair of Channel Locs in my hand. Suddenly, I slung the Channel Locs and they hit someone's tool box. I couldn't figure out why I did that. Well I found a furnace ignitor wire had broken and dropped down on the roller. Someone had left the ignitor on. It was like getting shocked by a spark plug.
I was disconnecting a 48" magnet from a crane one day and the operator signaled that he had the power off. It was 220V. But as I unplugged the wires I had the daylights knocked out of me. The crane magnets have a reverse power put on them when you turn the power off to kick the metal off the magnet. When I disconnected the wires, the field on the coil callapsed and I got shocked like by a spark plug. I wasn't any good the rest of the day.