Good work tracking that down. Short of a lightning strike right on the car, I really don't see that shielding is necessary to prevent spurious triggering of the CDI. I wonder what test scenario or real life circumstance made them do it, or whether it was arbitrary since it's a signal wire? Most CDIs don't need shielding on the points signal wire and I don't think the Bosch 3pin does either. Fred
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Originally Posted by jjrowe
Fixed it! There was a short between the signal wire from the distributor and ground. I first checked the resistance and there was none
The wire shield had cracked and the metal shielding was touching the internal wire. I had to peel back the shielding to see it. Once I fixed that the car started on the first crank. I forgot how much fun that car was to drive!
Thanks for all your help
Jesse |