Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:03:16 GMT From: "James Sweet" <jamessweetnospamail.com> Subject: Re: Opened DI Casette - For those interested
"Colin Stamp" <colinnospamp.plus.com> wrote in message news:7fv4v05f496ls7mlnhgnc0ruhlbl86eko1nospamcom... > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 04:37:13 GMT, "James Sweet" > <jamessweetnospamail.com> wrote: > > > >Not saying it can't happen, but I've never once had a distributor or plug > >wire(s) fail in a manner that suddenly makes the car undriveable. I've had > >one carbon button break off inside a distributor cap and make the engine run > >poorly, I've also had a plug wire fail and do the same, but in either case I > >could drive the car home. > > Although that would be fine on an older car. It'd be a really bad idea > to do it on a car with a catalyst. You have to go pretty old here to find a car without a catalyst, in this case it was a '79 (with catalyst) Volvo that had the center contact button fail, didn't seem to hurt anything and I replaced it as soon as I figured out what the problem was. I've had plug wires fail on my '84, where the wire came right out of the boot, but I was able to jam it back in there well enough to get home.
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