The Automotive Ignition Revolution When Distributor Caps Took Center Stage

Just curious, what brand cap / rotor were used? The insulators are ... I am shortening the cycle of use of my cars of no less than 30 days. ... caps -- in fact, carbed euro 308 use two coils and one distributor. ... In the cars with actual distributors the bodies were the same part. I checked the coil first but it was (and still is) ok. Next thing (because easy to do) was to remove the distributor cap. I found the little ... It has been mentioned before that there are other Bosch distributor caps which will fit our X distributor. I believe it was a cap for a ... The distributor's switching function tells the coil to send a spark when the rotor is lined up with a terminal in the distributor cap. The switching ... Early cars used ignition magneto and trembler coil systems, which were superseded by Distributor-based systems (first used in 1912). Electronic ignition ... I had the same issue, although my caps were burning every year. Swapped in a good used ignition coil and things went back to the normal 3-5 ... Between 1911 and 1926, Delco made about 80 different distributor caps. If you want to reproduce every single distributor cap Delco made, the ... sigh Well, I was installing new spark plug wires and a new distributor cap and rotor on my 85 Olds Cutlass today. I did the wires first, ... The distributor cap and rotor are part of the ignition system, which has to work in concert with the rest of the engine in order to ignite the ...