[s-cars] Thanksgiving Misadventure

[JC]

Keith -

Def suspect that coil.  Pulling apart a coil set is easier than it 
looks. Start at the connectors - after peeling back the boots, you 
remove the outer connector housing off the internal rectangular core, 
then carefully remove each of the applicable pins from the connectors.  
You should then be able to slip the wires out of the wiring looms 
(although I just went ahead and cut open those wiring sheaths to make it 
easier then zip tied things up afterwards).  With that you can pull each 
coil out to be an independent unit and mix-and-match them to get a good 
set.

Of course stock wiring lengths differ so you probably need to 
solder/splice wires to ensure you have enough length to reach the coil 
location.

Also if the stock wires are hard and cracking then yes you can replace 
those.  Before I gave up on OEM coils I rewired my entire rack with nice 
new teflon insulated wire soldered right up to near the coil and covered 
with heavy duty shrink wrap with internal adhesive (special  kind of 
shrink wrap that basically has a layer of hot-glue type stuff inside 
it).   This worked very nicely for some time until yet another OEM coil 
started to go and I got fed up with taking them apart and resoldering.  
I still have 11 OEM coils in the basement and I'm sure there's a good 5 
in there somplace but I don't have the patience to screw around with it. 
Long live the awesome power of and easy diagnosis of the LS2s & Magnecors.

JC

On 1/2/2012 3:58 PM, Keith Franchetti wrote:
> Update:
>
>
> The one obvious possible source of my problem is that I'm still using the
> coil that got damaged (partially melted) on the Thanksgiving Day when spark
> plug blew out and caused the fire.  (You'll remember I also had a
> significant valve cover gasket failure causing there to be a LOT of oil in
> the spark plug bore hole--so that when the plug blew out, there must have
> been a bit of fire that completely melted the boot, and some of the plastic
> covering to the coil).  I actually HAVE a spare set of coils all still
> wired in a loom--though the wiring overall is not in great shape.  I'm at a
> bit of a loss as to how to replace the one coil.
>
> That's where I am right now.  Any thoughts or recommendations?  Thanks!
>
> Keith
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