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On 25 Dec 99, at 7:14, Keith Park wrote: > Ahh Jim... As I was reading I was guessing that the little carbon brush in > the cap had fallen out. This will greatly increase the voltage at the coil > and cause the coil or its high tension lead to fail or possible the cap to > track or ?? The carbon brush was fine; I looked. > I must say I havent seen one fail eather but they are getting old now. I > finally replaced the original on the Opel but it was due to a distributor > fire. I HAVE seen one that failed in a V8 Mercedes, but that one worked twice the duty cycle. > I have seen the bakelite spark supressors on the plugs fail but they run > real hot and will only take out one cylinder. Right, the SP conns fail regularly. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/