jakejones410@webtv.net (Jake Jones) wrote in news:6793-4ADBD8D2-47
@storefull-3113.bay.webtv.net:

> The end of the rotor looks like someone rubbed it on the
> sidewalk,pretty rough,the one spring loaded contact inside the cap looks
> like the end of a used arc welding rod,both replaced maybe 50'000 miles
> ago......the wires I know have to be at least ten years old.



Then you need to replace the entire HT side, cap, rotor, wires and plugs
all at once.

If the car still refuses to start, then the coil is probably dead.



>
> How will turning the motor over without a cap wreck the coil? Just
> wondering,never heard of this before.
>


You overheat the coil that way, since the HT current has nowhere to go and
burrows its way through the coil housing.
<http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/badsecondary/internal-arcing.html>

This did not used to happen with the old cylindrical oil-filled coils,
since they had more heat-sink mass.




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