<VV> RE: Sleepless in LaLa land (humor?)

[Louis C. Armer, Jr.]

And was the "Glow" brought on by Bud, Miller, Pabst, Busch or those
funny smelling cigarettes??? <GGG>

da Chuckster
Chuck Armer
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At 02:43 PM 2/25/04 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Dave,
>I remember looking into the engine bay of my parent's 63 Monza convertible 
>on a moonless night in the mid-60's and I could see the original
>plug wires GLOW!  The problems with that old technology were not only the 
>higher resistance as the carbon and string broke down, but the
>insulation also was not that good and started cracking with the higher 
>heat around the engine top shroud.  Once you got higher resistance,
>then it would like to arc to the positioning clips on the top cover shroud 
>and ground out there.  So you had both failure mechanisms working
>against you.
>-- Larry

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