Burning Smell

[joepizuro]

Hello.
Yesterday I was hauling 2 horses up a hill and i kinda felt a missfire. Wether it was a missfire or not I knew I needed to replace plugs and wires so I did. Only 1 plug looked like it had Carbon on it but all the gaps were around 0.8+ instead of 0.35 like it requires. After replacing the plugs+wires I took it for a test drive and it runs great. Only problem now is that I smell rubber burning while I'm driving and when I get out and smell under the hood. No wires seem to be touching anything and the belt doesn't get hot or seem to be rubbing. Belt is only a month old btw.

Truck has 287k miles. 95 Ram 1500 5.9L 4x4

 

[Bigtman07]

Hmmm that is interesting. Sounds like the plug wires might be touching the manifold or getting super hot.

 

[KGBIGCOUNTRY]

How did the wires themselves look? Could have them arcing against the head or across causing the insulator to burn.

 

[joepizuro]

Well the smell went away and I checked that they aren't touching anything. Hopefully just new wire smell haha.