Re: Chasing Rough idle...compression?

Posted by fred kanter On 2011/5/26 10:50:55

If having plug wires close to each other may be a problem if teh wires are old, cracked and deteriorated. But from at least 1928 up on Eight,Eight Deluxe, V-12, Super 8 ,Six and 120 Packard manufactured these cars with the igniiton wires all running together and touching inside a metal "tube".

If wires shorting to each other, especially the cloth covered type, were a problem it would have shown up in the 20's, 30's and 40's. It didn't, plain and simple. I doubt that the collective wisdom and knowledge of all of us on this site comes anywhere near to that of the legion of engineers on East Grand Boulevard. and remember Packards were kknown for their smoothness.

Witness the Toyota unintended acceleration incidents. There were few reported before the press got a hold of it, then for a short time it jumped a hundredfold. This is after the floormat probvlem was solved. Each and every incident investigated by all the agencies including NASA showed it was driver error. Downloading of the "black boxes" confirmed that.

Twenty years prior the same thing happened with Audi, it turned out to be driver error.

Now it's wires that touch and clothes pins on fuel lines to cure vapor lock. The closest terminology I can think of is mass hysteria