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On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 15:57, Mark Healey wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:54:09 -0500, Jim Adney wrote: > > >On 14 Jun 2004 at 22:11, Mark Healey wrote: > > > > Spark at the end of plug wires went away so mabey it was intermittent > to begin with. > > Anyway I now have a new distributor cap, rotor and coil. I have a > real good spark coming out of the coil but when I check at the end of > the spark plug wire there is nothing. I tried this on #1 and #2 with > a spare plug. > > What could it be now? > Are you sure you have the right cap and rotor combination. Not a tall T-1 cap and a short T-3 rotor?? How is the carbon brush in the center of the cap?? Is free to move and make contact with the rotor? Is the rotor resistance about 5000 ohms? Is the total plug wire resistance from cap to plug about 1500 ohms? -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org