Melted Spark Plug Wire a Little

[duke16]

One of the heat sheilds that I had covering my spark plug wire slipped down and the wire melted against the header a little. It looks like two of the layers melted and it's down to whatever the black layer is. I don't see any of the actual wire, but it was shorting out against the header. I've attached a picture. I've got it wrapped up in electrical tape and everything seems fine now, no more mis-fires. But should I go ahead and replace it with one of my old wires (about 80Kon them), or will it be fine with the electrical tape?

 

[Turdle]

Switch it.

 

[duke16]

Will it be fine to run all new wires except 1?

 

[410Fortune]

that sucker looks fubared to me, thats a deep burn, I would switch it

 

[ma96782]

IMHO....switch it w/ old wire.....elec. tape isn't enough.

Aloha, Mark

 

[duke16]

K, I went ahead and swithed it. Thanks for the advice.

 

[TheJMan]

I had the same problem after I installed the Torque Monster Headers. Only my wire lasted a couple of days before it looked like that, and it burnt despite having the heat sock over it. Good call replacing it, the engine sounds terrible and pops/backfires when on 7 cylinders. Never a good thing.