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On 23 Apr 2001, at 22:43, Ginger D.&Peter P. wrote: > Phillip felt like he was running on 3 cyl. coming home this > evening. I got a chance to pull the plug wires and measure > resistance: about 1 k ohms each. But the coil to dizzy wire measured > 6 to 7 k ohm, this seems awful high compared to the others. Anyone > concur? I suppose it's time for a new set, they're 4 years old. If Phillip has the large connector on the coil end of that wire I think it has 5k in it, so this sounds fine. Your rotor should have another 5k in it, too. 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. - Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org