Swint
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Need help with a mis in my '86 C4
I need help with a mis in my '86 early model corvette. 53,000 miles it has sat most of its live. I have used injector cleaner new fuel filter, air cleaner, spark plugs and wires cap and rotor. checked for vaccuum leaks sprayed MAF cleaner it already looked great. Octane booster even. I am running out of ideas. I see more light cumming though the plugwires with the ones than the old ones. I don't think i should see light at all should I ? Even the new EGR hasn't helped. It runs alittle worse each time i do something. What do i do next?
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Thank you for the feed back. I have to learn this system. Anyway I do not see a arch or hear a snap just some light traveling in the wires in the dark. In the old days the wires would snap and shock the crap out of you. I don't have that. I was suprised to see any at all. They are new from ecklers
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From: Argillite KY
I hate to say but if you can see "light" inside the wires then something funny is going on. Electricity will only make light in a wire if something open and it's jumping a gap. Maybe it's some new-fangled wire or something but I have never, ever seen light inside plug wires. Maybe someone else will chime in with these new visible electric wires.
I once had a clear cap on my Dodge Van and you could watch the spark from the rotor. That was kinda cool but glowing wires....I want a set.
You might consider getting some Taylors or some OEM wires though just to be sure. I think the wires are shot.
I once had a clear cap on my Dodge Van and you could watch the spark from the rotor. That was kinda cool but glowing wires....I want a set.
You might consider getting some Taylors or some OEM wires though just to be sure. I think the wires are shot.
