Re: blown coil (fwd)

[Mike Marion <mmarion@optronics-intl.com>]

Dan wrote:


>Two questions:
>
>1) Does anyone know this shop, which is in VT?

Nope.

>Sounds to me like he
>is fishing for work that doesn't need to be done.

Yep.

>The car never
>had any cooling problems and it is unlikely that it developed them
>in the space of a week.
>
>2) There is no "setup" of the ignition system per se, is there?
>There is coil, there is timing, that's it.  The only thing I would
>call "setup" is the FI mixture, and that was fine.

Setup? - good spark, proper timing... uh...?

>
>I'm too far to troubleshoot this myself, and I feel bad that the guy
>is already having problems.  Any thoughts? (besides don't buy a car
>from Dan!)
>

Sounds like fishing to me too!

What the heck makes a coil blow up anyway?

I'll forward this to my mystery mechanic and see what he says though...

Mike



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