oh..fwiw ..in all things car performance related ..I find poor >>> connections being the real cause as much as a good 60 to 70 % of the >>> time...and it being 'a component' that's bad the rest of the time. >>> ...i.e. it's not 'always' A Component at all. As someone who teaches electronics for a living, and has spent all of his driving lifetime dealing with "old cars" (our family fleet averages 18 years old!), I want to strongly echo this observation. Very strongly. Very, very strongly! Always check every electrical connection in a circuit. Never assume that 30 year old little plastic connector and it's aluminum or brass strips is still 'all right'. I had a Rabbit once that had a completely dead ignition system, due to a single bad crimp in a single relatively inaccessible plastic connector.... it was hard to reach, but surely that little wire was find, right??? James Ottawa, ON |
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