Date:         Tue, 26 Aug 1997 14:55:26 -0400
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From:         "John H. Zouck" <jhz@APLEXUS.JHUAPL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Distributor cap on '88 Westy

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
>
>
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