Hole burnt in distributor cap.
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Melting Slicks
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Hole burnt in distributor cap.
Was out running some some errands in the 79 yesterday. As I was getting close to home, I could hear a little miss develop in the motor. She had just enough left in her to get about halfway up the driveway.
I pulled the distributor cap off this afternoon, and here is what I found
Can't say I've ever seen this happen before. I had replaced the cap and rotor about 6 months ago. I went and dropped in a whole new distributor, and supercoil, as the wires and plugs to the module were all brittle inside the old dist.
Just curious as to what may have caused this.
I pulled the distributor cap off this afternoon, and here is what I found
Can't say I've ever seen this happen before. I had replaced the cap and rotor about 6 months ago. I went and dropped in a whole new distributor, and supercoil, as the wires and plugs to the module were all brittle inside the old dist.
Just curious as to what may have caused this.
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Melting Slicks
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Everything was stock on the motor, including the coil. The cap and rotor I put on it 6 months ago were Accel. Like I said in above, I went ahead and replaced the whole dist. with a new one, only this time I did put a hotter coil on it. All is fine now and she's running great.
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Used to see this lots. That and/or a hole burnt through the centre of the rotor shorting it and stalling the engine.
High resistance in one or more plug wires. Even if they are not that old someone may have yanked on them and broke the carbon core.
Steve g
High resistance in one or more plug wires. Even if they are not that old someone may have yanked on them and broke the carbon core.
Steve g
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Melting Slicks
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......I will be inspecting and replacing plug wires tomorrow.
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Yep..used to be real common when they were new. CK for a bad plug wire or something like that.
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