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Old 03-30-2007, 02:38 PM
Arthur Dalton Arthur Dalton is offline
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Plug connectors are a supressor resistor ..there are 3 are under the coils.
[ one each]
Plug wire boots are at the end of the ignition wires at the coil end of the wire and are just a wire terminal/plug with a protective boot over the terminal ..there are NO resistor/Supressors in this boot/plug.. The resistor connectors for those 3 ignition wires is at the other end of this ignition wire
[ plug end]
The 3 connectors under the coils have NO Ignition wires ..only a resistor /connector.
.. ..so, there are only 3 Ignition Wires on a 104 waste spark ignition system, but all plugs get the resistor/suppressor...either in the connector under the coil or at the plug end of an ignition wire.

So, why do we always recommend changing the connectors under the coils.??? B/C they have a high fail rate due to 2 factors ..one is the are trapped in engine and coil heat and the other is they have a friction type commpression spring connection to the plug by design. Two things resistors do not like are heat and poor connections.
The resistors on the other plugs do not have these condition b/c they are not heat trapped and they have positive snap design connector..so, very seldom will one see a failure on them, but you frequently see failure on the ones under the coils..so much so that any tech familiar with these will just change them automatically when doing a plug change...
... the high percentage of 104 misfires are caused by these coil over plug connectors, along with incorrect plugs installed , specially Plats... these engine like the large electrode of the copper core standard plug b/c they are a series circuit of two plugs fired with one coil...meaning the first plug fires from the electrode to ground , but the second plug, being a series circuit, fires from ground to the electode and then back to the coil..completeing the series circuit. Plat have a tiny electrode and that may contribute to their mis-fire rate in waste spark systems like the 104 has.

Last edited by Arthur Dalton; 03-30-2007 at 03:47 PM.
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