[s-cars] Thanksgiving Misadventure

[Robert Myers]

And, the $64K answer is --- the OEM crap WILL go south again and it's 
time to just toss the whole P(ile)OS and do a proper upgrade as you 
suggest, JC.

Bob

At 04:21 PM 1/2/2012, JC wrote:
>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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