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Diagnosing corrosion on coil pack terminals

Well I got two tubes of the stuff coming. I'll have to experiment a little and see what I can come up with in the way of information on its affect of a connection.
 


In school we always called this ignition system "Waste Spark" because the spark out of one of the plugs is always "wasted"

Our ignition system is why you can't find a miss fire by pulling just the wires and not correctly grounding the cables, it creats an open circuit with 30,000+ volts, it is going to find a path back to the coil, through the wire or back through the secondary windings, or it can jump the coil housing. this can F-up your ignition system, just my word of warning while we are all on this subject

Anybody remember carbon tracks in distributors, they appear on our coils too....
 
I dont think it used the term 'waste spark' or if it did it didnt register with me. But looking at what you posted, it essentially says the same thing when it talks about the second spark being fired but the cylinder being open to the atmosphere.
 
SyntheticShield said:
I dont think it used the term 'waste spark' or if it did it didnt register with me. But looking at what you posted, it essentially says the same thing when it talks about the second spark being fired but the cylinder being open to the atmosphere.
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eh, it was in some further documentation that was with the part that i posted here...
 


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