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flaky CDI

Hey, Ryan.

When my CDI started going south, it went intermittent on me. Worked cold, started the car every morning no problem. Once the car warmed up, it might or might not start mis-firing and backfiring (cannon shots from the muffler - scared the holy bejeesus out of me!). It would not hot start at all - no spark of any kind until I left it overnight.

This repeated for weeks before I replaced the CDI. It took me so long to diagnose it because a) everyone told me it was either bad or good, so if it worked some of the time it wasn't the CDI, and b) because it costs too much to use the shot gun approach.

So, it could be...
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