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- From: borowski@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Don T. Borowski)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Spark plug wire help
- Message-ID: <31160130@hpspkla.spk.hp.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 18:06:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hpspkla.31160130
- References: <Bt4z7n.4Lq@taligent.com>
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Company, Spokane, Wa.
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- In rec.autos.tech, Tom Santos <tom_santos@taligent.com> writes:
-
- >Ooops. My car doesn't have spark plug wires... no alternator. My
- >mixture is still rich though.
-
- All right guy, lets get real. I've heard of some car which have have no
- spark plug wires. Each spark plug has its own coil, directly over the
- plug. Thus no wire.
-
- And there are older cars which use generators, instead of alternators.
- But I know of none of these cars which have the one-coil-per-plug
- arrangement described above.
-
- And of course you could have a Model-T, without a generator or alternator,
- but it does have spark plug wires, and a battery to run the ignition.
-
- Or maybe you have a diesel. It has no spark plug wires (no spark plugs
- either). And you if you can keep the fuel valve open, you don't even need
- any electricity to run the engine. But it is highly unlikely that the
- mixture would run rich except under full load with the injector pump
- out of adjustment.
-
-
- Donald Borowski WA6OMI Hewlett-Packard, Spokane Division
- "Angels are able to fly because they take themselves so lightly."
- -G.K. Chesterton
-