Spark Plug Wires

[tubman]

Originally Posted by 52flthed

Can replacing just the hot wire with a suppression type of wire cause any staring problems like hard starts? Have you ever heard of that?

By "hot wire", are you referring to the coil wire? If so, I haven't had any problems currently. However, the car (a '51) came with a factory coil wire that had a black "thingy", about 1/2" in diameter and 1 1/4" long, in the middle of a couple of pieces of regular solid core spark plug wires. It came on the car when I got it and the car was very original. The car started to run badly after a couple of years, and replacing that funny coil wire fixed it. I figured it was a factory suppression device that had gone bad; which is where I got the idea of using a piece of suppression wire as a replacement, that seems to have worked. Dissecting the black "thingy" without destroying it proved to be impossible.