<VV> Pitch dark is a good thing.

[Frank DuVal]

No one has mentioned this yet:

Your coil is bad. It should not have arced through the insulation of the 
tower, no matter if the lug was touching the tower at the terminal area.

That black spot is carbon and is no longer an insulator.

Cutting the lug short is a short term solution. The spot will grow and 
fail again.

Frank DuVal

Ernie Sanders wrote:

>My '66 Monza 110, PG, Convertible has been missing or hesitating since I bought it totally restored.  The PO had the same problem.  Carbs redone, wires, ect. ect.....Carbs have been apart several times looking for the problem.
>Well, a friend thought I needed to replace sparkplug wires.  I remembered as a kid looking at leaky wires in the dark and they put on quite a light show.  I pulled the '66 into the barn and took a look.  No spark plug wires were arcing but I saw a faint glow around the pos terminal of the coil.  Turns out the slide-in ignition wire terminal was TOO LONG.  It was almost touching the coil housing and was arcing and getting brighter inder accelleration.  I trimmed the terminal off a little and took it out for a spin--problem cured.  6 years after restoration, this very nice Marina Blue Corvair runs as good as it looks.  Ernie
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