Ok guys, excuse my ignorance here if you don't mind....
Everyone talks about putting dielectric grease in your plug boot if you are going to be in the water.
What does this do?

Here is my thoughts.....
My plug fouls EVERY TIME I get in the water. Could this be a jetting problem? I know its rich, I never can seem to get it spot on, but after its the water after moving 7-8 feet into the water the plug is shot to all hell and back. its black, like coal black. Pennies for your thoughts!

 

The dielectric grease stops corrosion from forming, helps with the electrical connection, and will displace water (there for stopping corrosion). I don't know if this alone will stop your plug from fouling but sure won't hurt. I have a blaster that we run through the water on every trip out to Red River and have no problem with fouling plugs.

 

I apply dieaslicktic grease to my battery ever night before I go to bed.

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razormazor, dielectric is fancy term for insulator. dielectric grease will not conduct electricity therefore applications to electrical connections on a quad will help to further insulate them while submersed in water.

Here is probably all you would ever want to know about dielectric:

From MSN- Encarta:
Dielectric

Dielectric, or insulator, substance that is a poor conductor of electricity
and that will sustain the force of an electric field passing through it. This
property is not exhibited by conducting substances. Two oppositely charged
bodies placed on either side of a piece of glass (a dielectric) will attract
each other, but if a sheet of copper is instead interposed between the two
bodies, the charge will be conducted by the copper.

In most instances the properties of a dielectric are caused by the polarization
of the substance. When the dielectric is placed in an electric field, the
electrons and protons of its constituent atoms reorient themselves, and in some
cases molecules become similarly polarized. As a result of this polarization,
the dielectric is under stress, and it stores energy that becomes available
when the electric field is removed. The polarization of a dielectric resembles
the polarization that takes place when a piece of iron is magnetized. As in the
case of a magnet, a certain amount of polarization remains when the polarizing
force is removed. A dielectric composed of a wax disk that has hardened while
under electric stress will retain its polarization for years. Such dielectrics
are known as electrets.

The effectiveness of dielectrics is measured by their relative ability,
compared to a vacuum, to store energy, and is expressed in terms of a
dielectric constant, with the value for a vacuum taken as unity. The values of
this constant for usable dielectrics vary from slightly more than 1 for air up
to 100 or more for certain ceramics containing titanium oxide. Glass, mica,
porcelain, and mineral oils, often used as dielectrics, have constants ranging
from about 2 to 9. The ability of a dielectric to withstand electric fields
without losing insulating properties is known as its dielectric strength. A
good dielectric must return a large percentage of the energy stores in it when
the field is reversed. The fraction lost through so-called electric friction is
called the power factor of the dielectric. Dielectrics, particularly those with
high dielectric constants, are used extensively in all branches of electrical
engineering, where they are employed to increase the efficiency of capacitors.

A dielectric's( when refering to dielectric grease), most important
property, is the ability to sustain the force of an electric field that is
passing thru it. This, really, was my origanal point. In other words, the
dielectric grease does allow the electric charge to pass thru, without
conducting it. Sorry if I failed to make the technical simple, Mr. Lehr, my
electronics tech teacher from 20 years ago would kill me.

 

WarriorManiac,

Good information. I do have a small tube of dielectric grease but never knew that it was that involved.

I am going to save that to disk and print out a hard copy and file that under D in the KNOWSALOT facility vault.

Chet
VP KNOWALOT FACILITY

 

Can't i just spit on it...thats always worked for me in the past.lol

actually...every connection on my quads gets pulled apart and packed with Di-grease...You think mud gets in strange places...try riding in the New england winter. Snow and ice everywhere.

 

Thanks for the info guys. I will be sure to pack some dielectric grease in there when I get the quad out.
Here is the weird thing. When the bike was box stock, no problems what-so-ever. I put the pipe and all on it and rejetted as I thought would work and it runs good as long as aren't in the water...... At one point I did find that the gasket on the "stator" (im guess this is going to be the term Im looking for), was cracked, my thought was that maybe water was getting in and killing the spark, well i replaced it and those junky phillips head screws with hex bolts. I was right, there was water and evidence of corrision on that thing that spins inside (looks like a big coil thing-a-ma-bopper). I know that gasket is a mother to get back seated right but Im pretty sure I did. Plus I had a dealer replace the clutch, so they would have went in that side and they would have sealed it correctly right? Still dies in the water. Any ideas? Could I be too rich and when the motor gets under a more load than normal it cooks the plug??? TIA