Just one or maybe even two old ones would be enough. FWIW, this is a very rare occurrence. Had this been a van I had owned for some time this never would have happened, but seeing as how I've only owned it a little over a week I am still discovering stuff the PO neglected (some the hard way). It's not that he wasn't spending money on it, quite the opposite in fact, several high dollar invoices came with it from a VW specialty shop, a couple in the 800+ dollar range. I don't know what he was getting for his money, though, and thats why I like to do my own work. Jeff

Jeff Stewart

----- "miguel pacheco" <mundopacheco@gmail.com> wrote:
> Note to self : always keep an old set of plug wires!
> Miguel
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> I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
> - Thomas A. Edison
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> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:58 PM, J Stewart <fonman4277@comcast.net> wrote:
> > I had a stronger word in mind than "stuff", but anyway I'm up at 5:30 this morning out messing around with my now one week old '85 Weekender. Cleaning stuff up and getting it ready to take to fireworks tonight. I decide to have a look at the distributor cap and rotor, hmmm. pretty much toast. About 1:00 I head out for a motorcycle ride and stop by an Auto Zone and pick up a new cap and rotor. Get home, think this will take about a minute-'til I go to pull #1 wire out of the old cap-it disintegrates in my hand right above the boot. Nothing but greenish powder. Now I