If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
Ads |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
The old "oil on the plug wire boots" gag. That'll get you every time.
Here's what (typically) happens (in cars I have had other than my mechanically-trouble-free Miata): - VC gasket, or plug hole, whatever, leaks some oil somehow onto the plug wire boot. - plug wire boot gets very hot and the oil flows into a "coating", and begins to char, causing a conductive carbon path from the inside of the boot where there is a high voltage, to the outside of the boot, which is near to many things at ground potential. - misfiring ensues, as the least-resistant path for the high voltage present at the conductor in the middle of the boot is through the carbon path created by the oil leak, and not through the gap in the spark plug. this problem is REAL common on 16V Volkswagen H2O engines, which is why I have heard of it. So my guess is your Rspeed wires, well at least one of them, are hosed. Oil leaking on plug wire boots usually precedes their early death. Although I wouldn't give much credit to your $78 experienced automotive technician spraying water ... they totally didn't diagnose this problem. They would have put a new set of plugs & wires in there, and the car would have run great until the oil leaked enough on your #4 wire to kill it again and you'd be back where you started, only a few hundred bux lighter in the wallet. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Emulate injectors - how? | Peter | Chrysler | 21 | June 6th 05 07:33 PM |
clean injectors? | Dave Lee | Jeep | 10 | February 12th 05 03:06 AM |
24# Injectors | c4_4ya | Corvette | 2 | January 27th 05 03:07 PM |
Replace all injectors | Empty3 | Corvette | 20 | November 10th 04 12:28 AM |