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On Tuesday 24 April 2001 08:50, Jim Adney wrote: > > In general, these have only failed when the resistance goes to > infinity. It is a wire-wound resistor and it only fails open. Even then > the spark will simply jump the break for a long time. > > BTW, if you are lucky enough to still have the OE SP wire set with > the nice screw-on right angle connectors at the distributor end, > DON'T throw them away; just replace the bad parts. Did you know > that you can just cut new wire to go in there? Besides, the late > wires, with copper wire conductors seldom fails anyway. > > - > The last time I tried to buy bulk copper core ignition wire at a parts store, They didn't want to sell it to me. They said they couldn't sell it for automotive use. SO......, I told them it was for a lawn mower, and I wanted 20 feet. :=} I usually just buy bulk wire, and make my own plug wires for VW's. All of the parts can be purchased seperately. -- Russ Wolfe russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe