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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:55:28 -0500, Russ Wolfe wrote: >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?? Yes. >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? I metered the wires and as far as I can tell without a megger they are wide open. I guess I'll have to get new wires. Now, why 1500 ohms. If they are wires shouldn't they be 0? The nature of the failure of some of these components confuses me as well. The coil is really just a transformer. Right? How does it degrade. I figure that the windings would be OK or not. The same with the rotor resistor. Mine was about 40K but not open. How does that happen? Mark Healey 71 FI auto square 71 FI manual square marksvw@healeyonline.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org