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What causes the contacts on my cap and rotor to burn?

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posted by  Volvord 784VC on  Thu Mar 28 15:53 CST 2002
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Hi Derek

There will be arching between the rotor and distributor cap, what can accelerate the appearance of burning is higher resistance in the plug wires, worn plugs, plug gap too large, cheaper caps can have a larger rotor to cap gap, aluminum is not the best and brass is prefered. These just name a few, if the car is running good and without me seeing the cap/rotor I would say that what you are seeing is normal.

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