How the...?!

[InvisiBill]

The other night after the Wings game, I was giving a friend a ride in the Sy. Halfway around, it started missing. It had been running great, so I figured something happened to a plug or I burned a wire or something (hoping it wasn't anything major).

When I finally got a chance to look at it, I was going to see what the cap and rotor looked like inside. Reached back and noticed a screw head up near the top of the cap. Wait, that's not a screw, it's a terminal. There should be a wire on that... The boot was hanging down off to the side of the cap...

It somehow managed to come off the cap and fall down, while I was driving. Taylor SpiroPros running to a Conrad cap. There was even some slack in the wire at the cap end. Any ideas how this might've come off?

 

[warmpancakes]

Magic?
elves?
communists?
the mysterious syclone gremlins?

 

[ParTyBoy]

Magic?
elves?
communists?
the mysterious syclone gremlins?

what about the Kak?

 

[warmpancakes]

I though he was the mysterious gremlin, I blame everything on him when I work on the truck

 

[InvisiBill]

Cool. I like it when I reach the same conclusions that you guys do...

 

[Loeryder]

yup gremlins hard at work.

Guess what I pulled out today??
The steel line form my tranny had come out of its retainer, rubbed against the oil return line fitting on the oil pan and rubbed a few nice holes right through it.
Wish I had a digicam because it lieterally looks like a gremlin chewed the mutherfuckin thing.

Gremlins also tugged at my remote oil filter lines enough to get the O Rings leakin as well. To have 3 leaks pop up at once has to be something.

maybe your wire got wrapped or hooked on something on the firewall and when you torqued it up a few times it just yanked out. Maybe Taylor will replace it.

 

[InvisiBill]

maybe your wire got wrapped or hooked on something on the firewall and when you torqued it up a few times it just yanked out. Maybe Taylor will replace it.

It didn't hurt anything. The boot just popped off the cap like you would do to change it. Plugged it back on, and everything's golden. That's part of what's bugging me. It's not like it ripped it out or something, it's just like it popped off... Stupid trucks anyway...

 

[nightdiver]

Hungry mouse...no shit check you wires they love chawing

 

[myclone]

FWIW dept .. Ive noticed that a lot of plug wires dont fit the small caps correctly. Seems that the boot bottoms out against the cap before the metal part inside the wire actually "snaps" down onto the cap terminal. IMO the too "long" compressed boot is now trying to push the wire off the terminal. Ive had some plug wires "pop" off and I believe it was due to the above sit-y-ation.

When I put new wires on and notice this "too long" boot sit-y-ation I take an exacto knife (razor blade) and trim maybe 1/16" off the boot. Just enough so the wire "snaps" on but the boot is resting against the cap for a moisture resistant seal. Havent had any syty gremlins/kak pull a wire off since.

HTH

 

[smeagol]

I noticed the same thing. I've chopped down the boots as well...

 

[lavaman]

Sometimes, I believe, as ya press the boot on the terminal, air gets trapped and ya gotta "burp" the boot to release some of the pressure. Just like what ya do to the Tupperware containers..............HTH
Terry

 

[Falco]

The taylors came off once or twice for me too. Once at a launch. It was ugly. Had no such problem with the KB's. Anyway, will try what Myclone said.

Peace,

 

[InvisiBill]

FWIW dept .. Ive noticed that a lot of plug wires dont fit the small caps correctly. Seems that the boot bottoms out against the cap before the metal part inside the wire actually "snaps" down onto the cap terminal. IMO the too "long" compressed boot is now trying to push the wire off the terminal. Ive had some plug wires "pop" off and I believe it was due to the above sit-y-ation.

When I put new wires on and notice this "too long" boot sit-y-ation I take an exacto knife (razor blade) and trim maybe 1/16" off the boot. Just enough so the wire "snaps" on but the boot is resting against the cap for a moisture resistant seal. Havent had any syty gremlins/kak pull a wire off since.

HTH

Hmmmm, I'll take a look at that. Do I need to have a beer to do the fix?

 

[warmpancakes]

yep coors light if you are old( no offense myclone) just dont get carried away and tear the front end off Ken

 

[myclone]

yep coors light if you are old( no offense myclone) just dont get carried away and tear the front end off Ken

LOL.... Us old ppl need to watch our diet to stay regular and all.. :wink:

 

[warmpancakes]

I jsu kinda figure you make some home brew corn mash hmmm white lightning

 

[bigjohn]

FWIW dept .. Ive noticed that a lot of plug wires dont fit the small caps correctly. Seems that the boot bottoms out against the cap before the metal part inside the wire actually "snaps" down onto the cap terminal. IMO the too "long" compressed boot is now trying to push the wire off the terminal. Ive had some plug wires "pop" off and I believe it was due to the above sit-y-ation.

When I put new wires on and notice this "too long" boot sit-y-ation I take an exacto knife (razor blade) and trim maybe 1/16" off the boot. Just enough so the wire "snaps" on but the boot is resting against the cap for a moisture resistant seal. Havent had any syty gremlins/kak pull a wire off since.

HTH

i don't know why you guys are cutting the boots as they will move on the wire. all you need to do is put a dab of diaelectric grease in the cap, pull the boot up, insert the wire in the cap and push the boot back down while holding onto the wire. :roll: :roll: :roll:

 

[smeagol]

Well I don't know why you feel the need to tug the boot all over the place and have it fit incorrectly. The metal connection is at a 90 deg angle, as is the boot. If you pull that metal connection out of the base of the rubber boot, you'll still have stress pulling the boot & wire all over. I played this game as well, cap & wires look retarded since they don't come off the cap at 90 degrees like they are supposed to, and you'll have to play that game all over again every time you take the wires off the cap if you aren't careful

so :roll: to you :wink:

 

[bigjohn]

i don't have a need to tug the boot all over the place. i was just saying sometimes they need to be moved around. i have taylors and have used lots of other brands and the ones that seem to have the problems are the stright end ones. i have never had any problems with the 90* ones. i must be lucky. o well. have a good one bg.