WTF? boost does distributor damage...

[corylang@dccnet.com (Cory Langford)]

Been there done that :) (although my tubes are too low to take out the
distrib.) You learn a quick lesson though.  Any boost required the correct
fittings.  Real T-clamps (not hose clamps) and flanged tubes ;)

Cory


At 10:28 PM 03/13/2003 -0500, Neal Tovsen wrote:
>Sorry for the rant, but I had to tell someone. How's this for "wierd"?
>
>Katie and I were going to put some more break-in miles on the '77 by
>taking a ~275mi trip to Ft Myers and back, caravaning with a friend who
>happened to be headed that way in his MR2. We haven't even gotten five
>miles from home, and I punched the throttle at 2500rpm in 4th gear. It
>pulled quite hard to 4000rpm (superchargers are cool!). I shift into
>5th, hit the gas, and NOTHING! Well, not "nothing", but more like I
>would expect in any other 8v low-compression VW at 2500rpm. Barely any
>increase in speed. What the heck?
>
>Pull into gas station, pop the hood, and find the boost tube popped off
>the intercooler. No big deal. Clamp it back down, start it up, and move
>on. When I get on the road again, I went to about half-throttle, and the
>engine stutters BAD. Huh?
>
>My friend makes a wild guess and thinks maybe the plug wire came loose
>from the distributor. It is near the boost tube that came off, and
>didn't look like it was sitting quite straight. So I pull the plug wire
>off, and with it comes a chunk of the distributor cap! The boost tube
>blew off the intercooler with sufficient force to break the plug wire
>off of the distributor!! I couldn't believe it.
>
>We managed to limp it home with the wire kind of pushed into the cap. As
>long as I didn't stress the engine at all, it ran smoothly on all four.
>
>One less new Bosch dist cap in the world, I guess!
>
>Neal
>
>
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Cory Langford
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