Bill, I checked with my local small town NAPA store. After numerous calls
to Champion, they found out they can get them in lots of 1,000 for about
$170 plus shipping, tax, etc. Net cost of about 20 cents each.
So, if I check the plugs after each session, figuring 2 sessions per day
over a 3 day event, and if I can do 6 events each year, it'll take over 27
years to use all 1,000. By which time I'll be 84 years old and probably
ready to quit racing anyway. Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "'Don Marshall'" <marshall@nefcom.net>; "FOT" <FOT@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 2:24 PM
Subject: RE: Spark plug washers/gaskets
> Champion used to sell them in bags of fifty. I suppose the Napa store
> could order them. It was the Champion spark plug guy that used to come to
> the bike races that told me I should change them. I forget his full name,
> but everyone called him Bobby. Very nice guy and could read more in a plug
> than most people could in War and Peace. Of course then I saw him checking
> Kenny Robert's plugs on the new (then) OW31 Yamaha in the hot pits and
> sticking them back in with the same washers.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Marshall [mailto:marshall@nefcom.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 4:52 PM
> To: FOT
>
> Has anyone got a source for spark plug washers/gaskets? I was taught to
> replace them every time I clean the plugs but I can't find them locally
> except with new plugs. As cheap as plugs are, I don't want to put new
> ones in everytime I want to check the mixture, etc. Thanks, Don
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