[TR] New distributor cap bad?

[Greg Tatarian]

Paul,

Randall beat me to it - yes, your cap is probably fine, for the reasons 
he cited. I sell these same NOS Remax caps through my eBay store; these 
were very high quality caps, but there's always a chance for some 
defect, though I haven't found any in my supply yet.

I have just pulled 6 off the shelf to sample them. With my VOM set at 2 
megohm or above, I can read resistance through the graphite plunger rod. 
The spring is in contact with the center cap conductor, and the other 
end of the spring is wrapped around the graphite plunger rod. As long as 
your spring is contacting the center conductor, it should operate 
properly as a high voltage conductor. You can carefully extract the 
plunger rod and verify that the spring is not deformed; if not you 
should be just fine.

Cheers,
Greg Tatarian






Randall wrote:
>>  No connectivity is made when touching the
>> plunger-contact (meant to contact the rotor) and the forementioned screw
>>     
>
> Most likely, your cap is fine, Paul.  That black plunger thing is actually
> supposed to be a resistor (to reduce radio frequency interference), and its
> resistance is probably too high for your continuity checker to show as
> continuity.  However, the high voltage that forms the spark will have no
> trouble going through the resistance.
>
> Wait until you can try it out on the real motor.
>
> Randall
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