5k stumbling solved!!! - long

[cobram at juno.com]

 "Bill Lockwood" <wlockwoo at zoo.uvm.edu> writes:

> Under a dark night sky, hood open watching cherry red exhaust
> manifold cool, noticed once EM was no longer glowing, that plug
> wires were arcing everywhere.  Plug wires are ~6,000 miles old.  I
> am assuming after replacement of cap, rotor, and wires, everything
> will be fine.

Probably Bosch, their plug wires have gone down hill in the last few
years.  For the same money you can get Behru etc. which are better in
MHO.  This is the first thing I check when something is amiss.  Fill an
old Windex bottle with water and squirt on the ignition wires, bad wires
will arc, sometimes bad enough to make the car die.

My old Mazda RX-2 used to give the most impressive fireworks display
under the hood with this techique, unfortunatly there were usually
fireworks every 4 or 5 months with the "quality" wires available from
Japan at the time.  Usually checked it while I was filling it with oil
and checking the gas.

BCNU,
http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/

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