It turns out the distributor cap was not the real issue. The MSD Blaster (oil filled version) or wire from coil to distributor cap I had installed not more than a year ago must have gone bad. The coil wire checks out fine as far as connectivity/resistance goes. I would have verified the wire in action if I could have but the plug end for the MSD coil is different than stock so they had to be swapped as a set.
I've read that the oil filled MSD coils go bad easily unless they are mounted vertically - which mine was not. One day I may order the MSD Blaster 8222 that is epoxy filled instead and can be mounted any direction. Haven't found any negative postings about this version, but the oil filled version I have seems notorious for failures. On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Chad Rebuck <[email protected]> wrote: > Not much has been going on with the 16v lately. The car was misfiring in > the past week after the rain at times so I took a look at the distributor > cap and found it was really worn down. One of the contacts had a 1/16" > inch slit in the middle of it from the arcing. Looks the same as if > someone took a dremmel tool with cutoff wheel to it. There was quite a bit > of carbon all over the place so I installed a used cap that I cleaned up > that was on hand in the spare parts box. The used cap was in decent > shape.... so far, so good. > _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above.
