I have had this happen too, even after changing plugs. I do not have a rough
idle. I finally gave up thinking about it and it does not seem to affect
performance. Any thoughts would solve this old mystery.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Fall [mailto:cpfall@UCDAVIS.EDU]
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 9:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: try again

Ok - the interesting question got lost in the fluff of my last question...

There's a lot of mechanical know-how here and I am wondering if anyone has
seen anything like the following:

Minor tune up on recently purchased 83.5 Westy. Noticed one terminal on the
distributor cap was highly corroded (front left cyl nearest driver).
Replaced the cap with a new one ~ one month ago. Checked again yesterday and
the same terminal has started to corrode. Anyone seen anything like this?
The wires do not appear to be cracked...

Chris Fall

cpfall@ucdavis.edu