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MSD 8366 distributor cap issues

Old Sep 26, 2008 | 03:57 AM
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MSD 8366 distributor cap issues

What causes thiskind of burnmarks to dist cap after fewhundred miles drive.Here is link to MSD forum,member of forum takes those pictures. I have similar looking cap inside.Link to MSD forum: http://www.msdignition.com/forum/sho...highlight=8366
I cleaned my dist cap few weeks/few hundred miles ago,and yesterday when I opened dist cap it looked again same.Is MSD cap crap?

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Old Sep 26, 2008 | 02:06 PM
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Looks normal to me.
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Old Sep 26, 2008 | 03:47 PM
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Re: MSD 8366 distributor cap issues

Nothing wrong with that.
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