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Don't crank it anymore until you figure it out Posted by RS [Email] ![]() ![]() ![]() In Reply to: Re: Intermittent spark..., Aaron S Graeb, Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:46:46 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Pop off the distributor cap and take a look at the carbon button in the center of the cap. Sometimes they get worn down to the point that they don't make contact with the rotor.
It's also possible that the end of the rotor or the copper pins that go down into the rotor chamber (for lack of a better word) have gotten so burned that you can't get spark past them.
Do you have an old cap and a spare rotor handy. At this point, even chaepie non-Bosch stuff will do.
If it's damp under the hood and you have ancient spark plug wires, the spark could be going to ground on the surface of the cables.
When you get to the point that you're ready to crank it again, pull the fuel pump fuse so you don't keep feeding raw gas into the cylinders. You don't want to either wash the oil film from the cylinder walls and cause excess wear or start a fire in the catalytic converter. There have been more than a few C900s that have gone to a smokey grave from a converter fire. We don't want to read about your car doing that.
If you have them, put fresh plugs in after you dry out the cylinders.
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