From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 14:50:50 PST
Run it on a really dark night, or in a darkened garage
with the hood up so you can see if there are any High
Voltage sparks anywhere.
Check the plugs for carbon tracking, same withthe
distributer cap and rotor.
Check for cracked insulators on the plugs, are the
plugs clean? Do they have carbon on them anywhere?
Oil won't conduct electricity but it will hold carbon
which will.
Check the connectors on the wires. Don't know how to
check the conductor inside the wire though, maybe
change out yours with KNOWN good ones.
Joe
--- 42Ford GPW <ilovejeeps@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a M-37 that seems to always have a miss in
> it.
>
> I have taken wires off of spark plugs and hold the
> wire tips close enough to
> get a spark between it and the plug. Everything
> looks O.K.
> but it will still miss. Every once on a while, I
> will start it up and it
> runs fine. My gut feel is that it is an electrical
> problem.
>
> Someone please give me a few troubleshooting
> tips...in order...for checking
> distributor/wires/plugs.
>
> How can you tell if a sparkplug wire ( waterproof )
> is bad ..or going bad.?
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> Mike Curtis
> 1942 GPW(2) 1943 WC-52
> 1942 MB 1943 WC-56
> 1944 MB 1951 M37
> 1951 M38 1963 M37-B1
> 1955 M38-A1 1968 M35-A2
> 1972 M151-A2
> FORD GPW SPARE PARTS/BOXES/TAGS, ETC.
>
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>
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