My 4x4 saffy has a new grp a coil, cap arm, and leads, when you touch the dizzy cap when the car is running it gives you a cracking shock, enough to make both arms jump!

Is this normall? i have never known it before,

The only other thing i have noticed is that when i look at the rotor arm, its only got a burn mark in one corner, not across the whole face as you would normall expect, Any ideas?

When i set the timming up, i aligned the phase sensor with the lug on the dizzy shaft, the timing is non adjustable anyway, the car runs fine.

 

I think it's pretty safe to say that what this means is that you shouldn't touch your dizzy cap again when the car is running.

 

surely there is a reason why its doing it, can touch dizzy caps all the time and never get shocks.

 

Yep I just said don't touch YOUR dizzy cap. You can touch mine all day long and not get shocked

 

Lucky you didnt jump and put your hand in the cambelt!?

Dont sound to healthy though? Never tried touching my cap, dont think ill try it....

 

lol spot on sir..


dont think you should get a shock off it i can put hold the dizzy on mine ok when running........

 

It's not like a dizzy cap costs anything though.

 

i dont think its doing it anymore, but im fucked if im touching it to find out

 

touch it,you know you want to

when you set the timing,there is a notch in the dizzy body,which the contact on the rotor arm points to (when set to TDC )

not sure why it's shocking you but i'd change it, oh and touch it again

 

i set mine so when its at tdc, the phase sensor under the rotor arm lines up with the second lobe on the dizzy shaft. the rotor timing is non adjustable the ecu adjusts itself.

 

you should set it so that at tdc with both cam pointers facing each other the pointer on the aux shaft should be pointing at the dot on the cover and the rotor arm should be lined up with the groove in the dizzy body.

 

i was told to forget rotor position, phase sensor is the one to align?

 

if you don't get the rotor arm position right, how's the spark going to jump from it to the correct terminal on the cap to fire the correct cylinder in sequence?

the phase sensor position is related to the rotor arm, so get that right and you're away. there's more chance of the rotor being directly in line with the post in the cap at the right time then, so less liklihood of it jumping elsewhere and giving you a shock

 

when you say line the rotor arm with the groove in the dizzy body, what groove do you mean? the big one that the plastic flash protector sheild sits into? If you mean that one i tried that and it doesnt even think of starting, so i aligned the phase sensor as before and

 

where are you ????

 

in totnes mate, where bouts are you in plym?

 

i havent got any probs with my car it runs fine, im doing over 500miles a week at the mo,eating porsches daily i just wondered how people set the timing up, as i was told to do it differently to everyone else it seems

 

yeah in plymouth, up by the airport.

 

now you can tell i dont go down there much................Plymouth have an airport?

 

yeah, big flat place where mechanical birds land

we also have electricity down here

 

lucky buggers , were on candles and cow shit up here.

 

see pages 3 and 4 of the manual under this link

http://www.siipicossu.com/manuaaleja...Sierra%20C.pdf

the whole manual can be dowloaded from there, along with loads of others.

a little knowledge can save a lot of money with these bloody cars