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97 Sidekick Sport 1.8L - CUTS OUT AT 1/4 THROTTLE
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i lay odds bad spark
but am only correct 1/2 time not driving it.
I bet boots bad (sorry,no not #1)
after all ,if one is bad, all are, its a set if kept a set the age and die as a set.
pure physics that.
called HV breakdown.

that Duane video shows, him slowly and painfully moving a ground lead over the huge surface area of a boot.firing
math..
Pi. times Diameter. x lenght, = area and x4 boots, yah pain full long tedious test. and risk of nasty painful electric shock.

i can do it here, with my many test jigs and scope. and kitchen alum, foil wrapped on the boot.and then grounded foil.
using my HV generator device. on the bench.
if plasma test fails then boot is bad
Duane point i think is, not paying shop labor to do that. $200 labor to find a bad $15 boot>, is not wise in any shop.

on spark wires, external one can see them flash over, in the dark
or spray water mist on them and hear,it misfire, bad wires
but boots are burried. so..... a hard nut to test, for most folks, lacking a scope.

all goodshops have the spark testing scope, even shops in 1961 with SUN 300
today all scopes work with the dirt cheap probe.
we can see the plasma fail.
and why. the book on the tool shows all the examples and why it fails.l my advice, find any good ASE shop has real tools like this.
http://www.fixkick.com
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RE: 97 Sidekick Sport 1.8L - CUTS OUT AT 1/4 THROTTLE - by fixkick - 02-02-2017, 11:20 PM

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