I really did not mean to blast the design, but to offer a hint to others who might have this problems at higher altitudes and not know, as I didn't, about the relationship between the cap and the altitude symptoms. As for the design, I only have experience with my other vehicles which have never had this problem, so I knew it could be done better and was thus suspicious of the VW design (maybe the dialectric material or shield-to-dialectric spacing.) On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Bo Kersey wrote: > I think that you are mistaken w/r to the bad design of the distributor cap. > The grounded shield is designed to reduce radio interference. Anyway, I > don't think that a 25,000 mile life for a distributor cap is unreasonable. > > > Bo Kersey > '89 Westy 66kmiles > > ======================================================= John H. Zouck The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Voice 1: 301-953-6998 Fax: 301-953-6985 Voice 2: 410-792-6998 E-mail: jhz@aplexus.jhuapl.edu =======================================================
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