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jimbo_jones

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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:33 pm

I went to son of trials on the weekend 2nd event passed the finish line and zook stalled cranked it for a bit wouldnt start then I see smoke I thought oh no startes cooked and its smoking.

Poped the bonnet and the dizzy cap was on fire not much only about 5" flames at the back of the dizzy.
I leaned over and blew the flames out. (lucky it didnt melt anything eles)

Left it for 10 mins and its started again drove back to camp (only 3 min away) and it was smoking again but no fire.
Ive had this motor in my tintop with the same cap and now running in my lwb for about 4 months with out a hic up.

Has anyone heard of this happening its only burnt where the coil lead go's in to the cap so far Im thinking its a short in the cap Ill pull it out tomorrow and post a pic.
any heads up would be great though.

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jimbo_jones

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:40 pm

I changed the cap and and coil lead all seams good now new cap isint getting hot at all so must have been a problem with the cap

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:09 pm

I'm gunna guess it shorted out on the fire wall....

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:20 pm

31zook wrote:

I'm gunna guess it shorted out on the fire wall....

nope has a shit load of room doesn't tuch the fire wall

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:35 pm

Weird! Must of had a shitty connection or air gap somewhere causing the spark to jump and eventually heat up the plastic and set it alight

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jimbo_jones

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:12 pm

it melted from the inside out very weird

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masterA

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:59 pm

That is weird
How much room to the firewall does it have?
I know that without hammering the firewall it's only a cuple of mm gap and when you go 4WDing the flex and engine movement will get very close to the firewall

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jimbo_jones

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:18 pm

I bashed the fire wall with a rubber malet before fitting the motor there's heaps of room

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jimbo_jones

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:44 pm

I had to undo the engine mounts and drop the motor to take the cap of
But there is like a inch of room when all together between the cap and firewall

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:57 pm

Did jonno touch the motor????? ;-)

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:01 pm

TZAR wrote:

Did jonno touch the motor????? ;-)

too soon?

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:06 pm

atari4x4 wrote:

TZAR wrote:

Did jonno touch the motor????? ;-)

too soon?

With his eyes closed

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:48 pm

stockman wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

TZAR wrote:

Did jonno touch the motor????? ;-)

too soon?

With his eyes closed

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