Thanks long gone. Will have to check that tomorrow night. My connectors do move from side to side and have been advised to unscrew the caps of the plugs. Do you think it would be wise to pull the spark plugs with the connectors and check for spark on every cylinder? I assume this would tell if the wires are damaged but perhap not totally. So far i have only checked one spark plug and grounded it to the manifold and saw spark. Thanks for all the great info and taking the time ouf of your evening to reply-I will reread to take it in better.

Long-gone-Ok on arcing-so will perform test as you suggest-seems my test will not be that useful if a weak spark.