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Ignition/spark question
If the cap is on in the little tabs, the cap doesn't move at all I'd say you
got it.
I think the fixed angle in MS should be somewhere around 60 if I remember my
reading correctly. the other angle sitting is -10 I believe.
good luck. Get that thing running!!! 8-)
David
> Okay, you're not the first to suggest this. And I know Drew is laughing
> his
> ass off if he reads this (and he's always saying it's a skinny ass too,
> so
> that should be a short laugh) Okay, assuming that I am installing a cap
> for
> the first time, what is the correct method? I've had the cap on/off a few
> times, and tried a different cap too. So maybe I just cannot install a
> cap.
> There'as a little tab that engages the distributor housing, if it it's in
> the spot where it settles into that notch, and I do up the clips, that
> should do it? Yeah, I'm serious. I'll check ANYTHING at this point.
>
>> or
>> MS fixed angle and your distributor are such that the signal is
>> coming at where the spark is being fired right at the edge of the
>> cap/plug wire pickup so that with any advance or retard(depending on
>> what edge) the spark is "missing" the plug wire pickup (this one is
>> just a funky guess, but it sounds good) 8-)
>
>
> Well, Dan and I did fiddle with this angle at one point, though it's back
> to the original -10* now I think.
>>
>> Good luck. I wanna see that MS running at Cincy
>
> Well, how does CIS-E sit with you? Or compression ignition? Honestly, at
> this point a diesel swap may have been easier. But agreed, I'd still like
> to see it at Cincy too. The MS part has been the easiest part of it. It
> was
> the injector seat swap that was the doozy.
> Keep suggestions coming.
> Cathy
>
>
>> David
>>
>> Keep us posted. Maybe this can help me avoid it when I install my
>> MS(hopefully soon after Cincy)
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:14 PM
>> Subject: Ignition/spark question
>>
>>
>> > Okay, I'm just fishing in case someone strikes on something that
>> > works. I'm
>> > trying to figure out why my MkI has gone from starting and idling
>> > to running on one cylinder (number three in particular). Spark
>> > seems to be the
>> > issue. I drove the car on CIS with Megasquirt controlling spark
>> > and it did a marvellous job (so the map is good, and it
>> > functions), and this revised frankenbuild started and idled well
>> > on both fuel and spark, until I got a throttle cable and was in a
>> > position to actually drive it. It has not run on all four since.
>> > I've done some basic diagnostics, Dan has been very helpful on the
>> > MS end of it, but it appears that only one plug is firing with any
>> > regularity, based on clipping the timing light over the various
>> > wires. Many of the components are either new or have been swapped
>> for different ones with no improvements. What I guess I want to find
>> > out is what the causes of a no spark could be. Plugs wouldn't go
>> > bad all at once with the car sitting (they are new), nor would
>> > plug wires, or the cap or the rotor, but tell me you oddball tales
>> > of queer spark behavior. New components include: plugs, wires,
>> > cap, rotor, and obviously MS and the wires to Hall, power, ground,
>> > and coil associated with it. Swapped components include: coil
>> > (tried two), and ignition distributor (broke one and replaced it).
>> > The fact that I do get spark indicates that basic function of Hall
>> > and coil are okay, but what if the coil is weak? I just
>> > reinstalled the firmware, so corruption there isn't the likely
>> > cause. Anyway, fire it at me, I thrive on the confusion. Thanks.
>> > cathy
>> >
>> >
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