[T3] Mysterious squareback condition

[J. Jonik]

Can someone explain why grounding the distributor at the condenser screw fixes this problem?    Is some other ground not working?

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:47:36 -0800
From: James Lingenfelter <jimmyandcher at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [T3] Mysterious squareback condition
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Interesting, thanks. I'm curious to find out what's causing this.  
Whatever it is, it's causing a minimum of two cylinders to go AWOL at  
precisely the same time, and they could remain dead for a day, or for  
a few seconds; and the problem can obviously remain completely hidden  
for weeks at a time.

On Jan 25, 2011, at 10:20 PM, Tim Keohane wrote:

> I had a similar problem, and found that by running a grounding wire  from the screw holding the condenser on the outside of the  distributer to the block my problem was solved. Not sure if your  issue is the same, but my problem has been cured for a year now.  
> Good Luck
> Tim



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