-=> TOM WALKER wrote to ROY J. TELLASON <=-
 
 TW> Needless to say He told they where they could put their Plugs.
 TW> I undersatand they are not all that great of a spark plus either
 TW> becasue I hear they refered top as SH** Fires quite regulalry.  :-)
 TW> :-) I was a dedicated NGK man in my auto Repair days. Did 99% of my own
 TW> for over 45 years.

I used NGK's pretty much exclusively, they're standard on most
all Japanese motorcycles I've ever had.
I was always happy with them.

I used to keep a brass wire brush in my tool kit to clean 
them off on occassion.

I noted some plugs wore and rounded their electrodes  more often
than others and for the most part I used them in inline four
motorcycles. Since they'd come out in fours I used to keep the
ones that still had sharp edges on the electrodes
and found by selecting these out every 2 - 3 spark plug changes 
I essentially got a free set.

A steel fingernail file I used to remove the pits
from a set of points as there's a fair amount of material there
to work with. 
You just have to get it flat with no scrapes
or scratches. 
Lastly run a business card soaked in alcohol through the points 
after installation to remove all traces of oil from your hands.

I got a LOT of mileage out of standard Suzuki tuneup kit
this way.
The only bike that was really hard on plugs was a
Yamaha 1100 XS that was a firebreather and needed to be runout from 
time to time time to clean it out.
Champion supposedly made an exact replacement for the 1100's
NGK's but I could only find them at NAPA and their performance
and longevity left something to be desired, they were pricey
as well.

I was going to detune the Yamaha just before a sixteen year old girl
with a brand new license put an end to my plans.
Rejetting the carbs down a size and going back to stock pipes
would have done a lot to make this a more city ridable 
motorcycle as well as open up a LOT of right hand turn
cornering clearance removing that tuned four into one 
tuned exhast system.

Only bike I ever owned with no points and a computer brain.
That pretty much dates me ;-)

I often say I've never been stranded on a bike but that's not 100
percent true, the bike with the brain would not start two
blocks from my apartment one day when the battery voltage
fell to a level the computer didn't like :-(
Only bike I ever owned that could not be kick or bump started in
that situation.

I also did ALL my own work on my wheels except for two
occassions I was pressed for time and both times the 
48 - 56 dollar an hour shop rate mechanics screwed up bigtime.
First case when I correctly tuned the bike I had to
back off the idle because the bike was idling at 33 hundred
RPM!
Second time a moron left the pinch bolt off the rear axle
and I could have had a full rear wheel lockup on the highway :-(
That free tire install with purchase could have killed me.
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