Distributor cap and spark plug wires

The car has been running on the rich side for a while for no obivious reason. Beldin pointed out that I should check the plug wires and the dizzy cap, because who knows how long they have been in there?

I havent ever done anything to distributor so this was bit of undiscovered country for me. The dizzy cap I removed from the AW11 was dirty and the leads were quite corroded.

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I removed the spare engine dizzy cap and found out it was in better shape. I cleaned the leads and put it into AW11.

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Putting the dizzy cap back in the car was tricky. Cramped area and big useless hands.

Also, I took the plug wires out and measured the resistance. All wires were in 2kohm area, but the wire coming from the coil said something like 5kohm. No idea what the relevance is here.

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Before heading out for a test drive, I finally rememberd to turn the front shocks all the way down to softest setting. I’ve had them on 6/16 for 2 years at least.

Something in the engine compartment made kind of a wailing sound, but I fixed it by turning the music up.

I was probably hallucinating about the car, but it definetly was more perky. Air/fuel ratio didnt fluctuate that much anymore and the lowest that I saw it to jump (for 0.02 secs) was 12. Before doing anything it went all the way to 11 and stayed there for a long time.

Next time I have to check compression, the plugs and the dizzy rotor 🙂

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