[_Jim]

A running engine with bad wires can cause that.

Poor man's way of finding a dead cylinder involves pulling each wire in succession - till the dead cylinder/bad cylinder is found ...

[HiTech RedNeck]

Was a guy (also name of Jim) helping me work on an old 2-stroke magneto ignition dirt bike once. He had a better kicking ability than I, and was able to get it going. Trouble was I had set the throttle stop screw at max and with it revving like snot, he wanted to stop it before it tore up the engine. Well he didn't know where the kill switch was so he yanked off the spark plug lead.... !Ai caramba! Bike and Jim were on their side... me: wha' hoppen mon???

[Malsua]

>>Poor man's way of finding a dead cylinder involves pulling each wire in succession - till the dead cylinder/bad cylinder is found ...
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1-5-4-2-6-3-7-8

My race car had a 289(Ran high 11s for the gear heads). The above is the firing order. There were tons of times that I borked up the wires after a head gasket change or something else...it amazes me to this day(some 15 years after my racing days) that a V8 can run reasonably smoothly on 6 cylinders. Pull a plug wire and the engine doesn't drop rpm...bingo. problem.

But yes, running an MSD 50k volt ignition and it will arc out of the end of the boot and nail you good. Also if you old heat degraded 6.5mm wires, just touching the thing and you learn quickly :)

-Mal