Re: Quattro Digest V2 #500

[Frank Deutschmann <fhd@interport.net>]

Peter Orban sez:
> My experience is that ignition wires loose their watertightness with age.
> I usually replace them when a wet car is hard to start up in the morning.
> Fall season is a good time to see this.

The boots are usually the first part of the wires to start to fail; you can
prevent these problems by putting som dielectric grease into the boots as you
install the wires.  (The grease keeps the connection solid and dry, even if the
boot actually leaks.)

-frank
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