I purchased a 1995 Chevrolet C1500 with the 4.3L v6 and 114K miles on it. I'm leaving it at my parent's house for my dad to use as a backup truck now that his 2011 F150 has over 200K miles. Any down time for his truck is lost revenue and also this one can stay pretty clean and organized on the inside in case my mom wants to ride along with him somewhere.
First thing I did was change the oil of course and used some M1 10w30 HM with a Fram TG. Decided to check out the spark plugs next and based on pulling the 1st plug, decided to change them all using a set of NGK vPower since that is what Advance Auto had in stock. I have a set of wires, distributor cap, coil and rotor on order from Amazon now.
The truck was running ok but I think the plugs looked pretty bad. What do you think of their condition? Gap was definitely out of spec. I actually didn't get to drive it after replacing them since I was running out of time to get back to Houston so I'm interested to see how it runs after a full tune up.
First thing I did was change the oil of course and used some M1 10w30 HM with a Fram TG. Decided to check out the spark plugs next and based on pulling the 1st plug, decided to change them all using a set of NGK vPower since that is what Advance Auto had in stock. I have a set of wires, distributor cap, coil and rotor on order from Amazon now.
The truck was running ok but I think the plugs looked pretty bad. What do you think of their condition? Gap was definitely out of spec. I actually didn't get to drive it after replacing them since I was running out of time to get back to Houston so I'm interested to see how it runs after a full tune up.