> Ross, your distributor ought to finction quite happily with an open
> circuit (as measured by an ohmmeter), so 20Kohms does not neccessarily
> imply it is bad.
>
.......snip.....
> PS. you may have a bad distributor cap -- I'm just pointing out that
> the evidence you have presented so far is not sufficient to convict!
>
Thanks Simon,
The cap WAS the problem. It was convicted on circumstancial evidence and
summarily executed yesterday.
As a point of interest the resitance on the new cap at the same junction was
almost nill, around 4 ohms I think.
Cheers,
___ \______ Ross MacPherson
/ __ \ __ / /------|) arm@unix.infoserve.net
/ (___)---------/ (___) Vancouver, Canada
1947 MG-TC 3528 1966 MGB-GT (running, ready, but not
insured....)
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