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Re: Its true but who has done it?
Posted by Duck [Email] (more from Duck) on Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:17:44
In Reply to: Re: Its true but who has done it?, Dean, Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:31:35
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Since I havn't experienced any problems with my DI cassette, I've yet to buy one. However this post has me thinking. I work on benz's all day long and they have a coil on plug setup on their 320 six cylinder engines. The coil sits on one plug and has a wire running to it's other plug. A very common problem with these is that the 3 plugs that have the coils on them frequently experience carbon tracking, first down the insulating boot and then the plug. The 3 plugs with the wire connectors never seem to do this. The logic behind this behavior is that the high voltage discharge of the coil ionizes the local air down in the hole. Since the coil covers the hole pretty snugly (much like our DI cassettes) this ionized air doesn't have a chance to escape and eventually becomes conductive enough to allow a misfire down the outside of the plug's insulator. It only takes one misfire to start a carbon track and it progresses from there. Well the fix for this situation on the benz's is simply to replace the offending plugs and the connectors between the coils and plugs. If this is similar situation to our "cassette failure" then replacing just the lower section that comprises the plug connectors sounds like the right solution. For 65 bucks how can you go wrong?
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