Engine Fire - Distributor Related - Pics Included

[Rick Parker]

That looks like a Mallory Cap.

This particular cap does not have the significant series of ridges and vanes to prevent crossfire like many OEM caps and many of those from MSD do. Mallory caps are also generally shallower.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Rick Parker

That looks like a Mallory Cap.

This particular cap does not have the significant series of ridges and vanes to prevent crossfire like many OEM caps and many of those from MSD do. Mallory caps are also generally shallower.

Good eye, Rick. That is indeed the cap off of a Mallory dual point distributor.

[Ron61]

That was a mess but fortunately it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I check my distributor cap quite often as I to have had some misfires and it would be the center electrode starting to wear. I decided that since my car in no way resembled an original anyway to just change the distributor and I put in a Mallory magnetic one and it has been in there since 1998 with no problems. But I still check it along with all of the other connections pretty often.

Ron