[Spridgets] My theory on my low end miss

[Jack Laird]

I vote for a bad dizzy cap.

Just happened at the same time.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Clarici" <spritenut at comcast.net>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:00 PM
Subject: [Spridgets] My theory on my low end miss


> After my head gasket replacement, I still had a low speed miss on #2,
> the cyl where the head gasket blew.
> Peter emailed me with a wild idea, Put in a 180 out dizzy and wire the
> plugs to suit.
> I did and managed to move the miss to #3 cyl.
> WTF? I had the miss with 2 different distributors, 2 different caps and
> wire sets.
> One wire set was brand new just before the trip to MO.
> Both wire sets were firing fine, strong blue spark at #2.
> Now that I moved the sequence around, the miss moved. How can this be?
> Tonight I put on a used dizzy cap with some old wires, no more miss.
> My theory is that the spark, not firing in the water soaked cylinder,
> somehow backed up
> and semi self destructed the wire and/or dizzy cap.
> That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
> Maybe an electrical engineer or a rocket scientist on this list can
> explain this one.
> BTW, the working cap and wires is one of those original 90* copper end
> jobs like from the factory.
>
>
> -- 
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
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