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Old 10-06-2011, 09:24 PM   #1
 
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Well earlier at lunch I walked out to my truck to of course go to lunch, get in, turn the key and it won't start. It cranked but wouldn't fire. So my dad came up with his trailer to take it home later, but before we did that, he looked under the hood and first thing he sees... the coil wire going to the distributor was resting on the manifold. Moves it off of it, cranks it and it fired right up. Guess it was just grounding it out. So I went and got a new coil wire, about to go put it on in a minute.

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Looks like it was time to replace the wires anyway...I see some dry rot cracks there.
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Yep, that wire is in pretty bad shape.
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I didn't mess with the other wires, they're all fine. It was just that one that was bad since it got so overheated


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Did you change out the wire yet? All better?
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Oh yeah forgot to update lol put the new wire on and it runs great! Even smoked a Ford today


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