[T3] Cylinder Performance

[Dave Hall]

Could be your plug wires are even worse now!  You should be getting around
5000 Ohms, so you would see '1' on the 2K range.  The range gives the
maximum it will read.  '1' would show it's above the range selected.
Usually on 2K the readings would be in thousands so your 0.863 is 863 Ohms
or (0.863 K Ohms).

Try it on a 10K range if you have one, or the next higher one from 2K
anyway.  I would expect the reading should be between 4.something and
5.something.

Better still, stop wasting time measuring resistances and find the leads you
got from Jim !  You could simply compare them if you don't want to fit them
yet. 

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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-----Original Message-----
From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Adriel
Rowley
Sent: 19 June 2011 04:36
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Cylinder Performance




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> From: jadney at vwtype3.org
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:34:10 -0500
> Subject: Re: [T3] Cylinder Performance
>
> On 17 Jun 2011 at 18:00, Adriel Rowley wrote:
>
> Black plugs usually mean that the cylinder is not firing at all. This 
> would be due to lack of spark, lack of fuel, or lack of compression.
> Check the resistance of all 4 SP wires.
>
Scale set to 2k Ohms works, but a couple years or so ago all I could get was
just "1".  Guess my meter skill have improved. ;)

1-0.863
2-1058
3-0.556
4-1075

> Try reducing the gap a bit, to more like .024". Sometimes the larger 
> gaps make it more likely that the spark will "leak" out somewhere else 
> before it gets to the plug.
>
Set three to about that, and the rest a bit looser but not the 0.028"
in my head. ;)


Thank you,
Adriel
 		 	   		  
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