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Old 12-20-2023, 07:33 PM   #78
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Default Re: 47 V8 ignition mystery

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Originally Posted by Jack E/NJ View Post
Sorry I don't mean swap wires around. Do you mean that you can't simply pull the #3 wire out of the cap's #3 receptacle?
Right. As you can see in the attached diagram, 42-44 had the crab distributor cap that would be easy to do what you suggest. But, the 45-48 has the sparkplug wires threaded through conduit, boots, and upper distributor cap, all before getting inserted into the lower distributor cap. Then that upper and lower cap are clamped together into one unit to attach to the distributor. No way to just pull one wire to do anything that I can see. You can't really do anything without removing the fan and generator and removing the entire wire loom.
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