Vehicle is a 1980 U.S. 450SEL.

Symptom is rough idle, stumble when accel from a stop until engine warm.

Clean dist cap and rotor. Problem temporarily resolved. I have found over the years that the distributor cap and rotor need to be replaced about every 45,000 miles. Burned conductors on the cap (all 8).

Is that normal?

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S, J.R. Brown
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