[Slate 85GTS]

you should be able to get alot longer than 4 months out of a set of plugs?? and thats pretty odd the way the wire blew off as well... i wonder whats up? Im concerned with that ticking noise though, you would be wise to try and get a long thin magnet down in there and try to make sure the tip of the sparkplug is not still stuck down in the cylinder somewhere. Im sure thats what is causing the ticking, and hopefully your cylinders and piston is still not too beat up from being thrown around in there for so long. Keep me updated, but i think if you just throw new plugs in without getting the tip out of the cylinder you will find that it still ticks.