Re: highway stalling - fixed

From: Jon (jonram2004@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Oct 22 2004 - 14:42:23 EDT


The plus side of this is, you can use it on them for years...

"You remember when you guys almost killed me, repeatedly, by messing up my
truck?"

:)

""Josh Battles"" <josh@omg-stfu.com> wrote in message
news:clbfad$qj8$1@bent.twistedbits.net...
>
> Well, for those who remember the few scary days I had there on the highway
> with the truck just shutting off on me, I've managed to correct the
problem
> and you'll never in a million years guess what it was.
>
> To make a long story short, apparently my friends thought it would be
funny
> to put a piece of paper over the terminal between the coil wire and the
coil
> itself. Well, when they did it, they apparently pulled on it too hard or
> something and it tore, allowing the electriticy to flow between the coil
and
> the wire. However, the paper managed to wick just enough water up in
there
> to cause some slight corrosion - enough to intermittantly stall the truck.
> I only found this out after I had replaced the distributor cap, rotor,
> battery, and reseated every electrical connection under the hood. (after
> each step thinking that I'd corrected the problem) As a last ditch effort
I
> decided to change the ignition wires and plugs as well, perhaps there was
a
> defect in the wires. Well, the box came from summit and while taking the
> ignition wires off of the truck I discovered a little treasure inside the
> ignition coil boot - a small piece of paper. I'm suprised I didn't have
an
> engine fire by the way that it looked. It was all brown and kinda ashy
> looking.
>
> So, after a nice talk with the people in question, they brought over a
case
> of beer and we drank it. Now comes the planning of retaliation.
>
> --
> - Josh
> Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L
> Above Statement Not True ^^^^^
> www.omg-stfu.com
>
>
>



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