overconsolidated@gmail.com wrote:
> '94 Accord Sedan LX 208k
I didn't know better and tested the voltage
> with the engine running and I think I burned my multimeter out.

========That's how we learn.


> I'm pretty sure compression in #3 is fine because I accidentally
> started the car without the plug in and it sounded like a really loud
> lawn mower or helicopter.

=========== When the car runs without a 'path' for the high voltage from
a plug wire, the arc can travel through the distributor and wreck the
igniter. Lets hope not. Since Hondas have no single high tension wire
you can isolate I like to put the plugs in a stainless steel cup with
the wires attached. I run a ground wire to the cup.

> So now that I have run the car and fixed the gaskets, if I put a brand
> new plug in #3 will it work? And will plugs covered in the black
> carbon deposit stuff still fire, or are they toast?

============== Buy yourself four new NGK plugs or clean up the dirty
ones. You may have blazed a new trail for the spark under the
distributor cap. How new is the cap and rotor?

'Curly'