I posted earlier about a miss after changing the opti and the spark plugs too. I put in autolites. They are arching from what seems the end of the boot sleave (closest to cylinder head) straight to the part of the plug you put the wrench on. The entire porcelain part glows blue everytime it fires. Also, my msd coil is arching between the red plastic housing to the square metal bracket that surrounds it.

Whats going on here?!?! Please help

 

Sounds like your coil has been carbon tracked due to the miss fire situation. As far as the plugs it sounds like the procelin has been cracked allowing the arc to find the outside of the plug as the easiest ground source

 

What do you mean by the coil being "carbon tracked"?

I understand the porcelin being bad. I can't believe I put in a brand new set of plugs and they all do this!

 

Did you apply dielectric grease to the inside of the spark plug boots?

 

A glow is not indicative of a problem, but a visible arc to ground is.

 

Well when you have 40,000 volts or so trying to find a ground source and there is a reason why it doesnt go through the plug gap i.e. misfire, then the voltage produced by the secondary windings can actually lay a track down from the secondary windings to a ground source outside of the coil. That doesnt sound very clear, maybe someone can help clear it up. Basically electricty is looking for the easiest path to ground and it can go through the insulation of an ignition coil to find it

 

Take off your plug wires one at a time and clean the porcelan with brake clean. Put dielectric grease in the boot with a Q tip,enough to do some good and all over the metal clip and make sure ya push them on hard enough to feel or hear then snap.Ya also might want to gap them at .035,this makes it easier to jump the gap rather than leak or back up in the opti,which will ruin the opti. I have said this a thousand times that .045-.050 sells a lot of tune up's(optis and plugs and wires)and is good for emissions that's ALL.

Don't have anything to do with the coil.

 

I didn't apply dielectric grease to the boots (shame on me). I'll try doing that on the drivers side since its easier to get to. I can't imagine my life being that easy though.

So the coil, does it need to go also?

 

I would not think so if it isn't arcing too. Remember the .035 gap.