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<div dir="auto">Thanks for the info tonight Jim. Still trying to track down a new rotor. </div>
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<div dir="auto">I pulled the old rotor. Shouldn't there be continuity between the center and the tab that swipes by the 4 plug wire locations in the cap? I don't get and reading there at all. </div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 20, 2022 8:03:37 PM<br>
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<div class="PlainText">John,<br>
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Nice to get that call from you tonight. I'm 99% sure that the rotor is the <br>
problem.<br>
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My favorite tool for diagnosing HV spark problems is an inductive timing <br>
light. The inductive pickup senses CURRENT, so, in this case, you'd see <br>
current going into the distributor but not coming out.<br>
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Since that current is bound and determined to get to ground somehow, it has <br>
managed to get there somewhere within the distributor. There are only 2 HV <br>
insulators in the distributor: the cap and the rotor.<br>
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The cap is easy to inspect. Sparking to ground in the cap will either be via a <br>
carbon track, which is easy to see, or by way of dew (yes, been burned by <br>
that!) inside the cap.<br>
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The spark can also puncture right thru the rotor, to the grounded shaft. This <br>
is made more likely by the OG sharp corners on top of the shaft. I file a <br>
radius on these whenever I rebuild a dizzy. You won't be able to see the <br>
puncture. It's completely invisible, but you can find it with a HV source that <br>
sparks along the insulator surface. If there's a puncture, the spark will go <br>
RIGHT THERE. If there's no puncture, the spark will flow evenly along the <br>
whole surface. <br>
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I've encountered this twice. Once on a customer who was stranded <br>
somewhere. Couldn't figure that out until I swapped him the rotor from my <br>
Square. I'll tell you the rest of that story when we see you on Thursday.<br>
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It happened to me on my ugly/rusty '73 a few years ago. That car had <br>
become hard to start and would sometimes have trouble pulling away from <br>
stoplights. It was oddly intermittent. Unfortunately, it never happened when I <br>
was home, near tools. That was an aftermarket rotor, now in the <br>
basement,marked bad. Out of curiosity I took it to campus and ran one of <br>
those hand held Tesla coils over it. The spark went right to a place where <br>
the corners on the top of the shaft would have been.<br>
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Good luck on the rest of your journey. See you Thursday.<br>
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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org<br>
Madison, Wisconsin, USA<br>
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