I purchased some Taylor 8mm Spiro Pro Series High Performance Ignition Wires for my 1976 L-48. Well I may sound kinda lame but how do you remove the top part of the distributer cap in order to replace the wires? I do know to replace and match the wires one at a time. Help?

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Aaron

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Are you talking about the plastic piece that keeps the wires from coming off?

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GEN III 5.7L "LS6" Engine swap
TKO500 5 spd.

Yep...the plug wire retaining ring just "snaps" onto the top of the dist. cap. Push outward on the two latches, and it will come up. The wires will also be inserted into the ring, so you'll have to twist/pull them out.


btw...if you look closely at the ring, you'll see that it is numbered at each plug wire hole, so you'll know which wire goes where...as long as the distributer is still in the correct location.Adams' Apple2007-12-20 06:04:31

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Joel Adams
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Aaron don't feel bad! My new HEI distributor didn't have the ring so I had to figure it out. I got a set of the Taylor wires yesterday and I'm not really enjoying making my own wires too much. 79rebuild2007-12-19 23:26:44

79rebuild, the pictures look real good.  Looks like your going first class.  Do you still have your website covering the restoration?  If so what is it? Thanks

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Steve, Lifetime Member #129

74 coupe 4 speed 350, 54K actual miles,
all original; paint, interior, engine,
split  bumper. #'s match. 2nd owner, no stress cracks.

It's looking good Aaron. Nice job.

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Glen, Very nice!Wow shiny, I like shiny things that go fast. Nice wire set up you have there.

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Aaron

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Yeah Glen that looks real nice! I see your AC is on already   Aw I really miss living on the other side of the mountains.

OK, after driving my Vette through the hood on Saturday it started to run a little ruff while at an idle. So I got out the new plug wires and put them on and cleaned the carb up with some carb cleaner spray. She runs real good now. The retainer ring on top of the distributor cap came off real easy but it is in bad shape and cracked, I did not put it back on, do you have to have it on? One of the old wires I took off had rust on the conection at the distributor cap and the overall wires looked to be real old, probably why it ran ruff. I cleaned all the contacts on the distributor cap before putting new wires on. Next I am planning on getting a new MSD red Distributer cap with built-in Coil and Rotor I found for about $30.00 at Schuck's. The end result is I have a nice bunch of red wires (kinda old school look) in the engine compartment and she runs good. Aaron19762008-02-15 12:51:11

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Aaron

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Very nice. I like new stuff. It use to be that all th contacts in the distributor cap were copper but not anymore. A good cap, rotor, and wires make everything better.

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Brian - NCM Lifetime Member

73 coupe L48, Flat-top pistons, Performer RPM Heads, Crane Cam and roller rockers, Holley 650 vac sec. Performer intake,
3.55 gear BTO 200-4R trans,
Leather seats, Seatbelt Plus 3point seatbelts, Pioneer CD player
Magnaflow Exhuast System

Question on running the spark plug wires:

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That's the way the factory did it with no problem.  If you have a higher voltage ignition system, there is a greater chance of that inductive firing, but not with a factory system.

I was wondering about the same thing I've seen a lot of pictures of the wires being wrapped or twisted around one another and I thought that was a no no. I was always under the impression you couldn't randomly cross the plug wires or you would get crosstalk from the other wires going on.

[QUOTE=dwright]Question on running the spark plug wires: [/QUOTE]

The only wires you really need to watch for are #s 5 & 7...you don't want them running next to each other anywhere in the run. These two plugs fire one right after the other, and are the cylinders that are next to each other. If these two wires run close enough, they will cross-fire. You should always separate these two wires with another wire in between them. If you look closely at any factory plug routing(on mouse engines), you'll see they were run like that...always with another wire in between them. It don't always look good, cosmetically, but the benefits outweigh the cosmetics.

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The induced voltage has to jump the spark plug gap, and that is easiest under the least load, so you would most likely see it at idle or during higher RPM deceleration.

[QUOTE=suncountry]Here is what I am doing

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That looks awesome! I dont like the look of my wires running all over the hood, mind telling me what setup you have for the brackets and what wires you got to run them like that?

Thanks!