Triton V10 maintenance
Before our next trip (into the Rockies) we thought we should check on maintenance for the Chinook. I've researched some around the internet and I find it hard to get apples to apples. Someone mi...
Forum Discussion
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Retaining the hundred year old tried and true (but ECU controlled) distributor with excellent quality spark plug wires. IDIOTS! Placing electronics atop a 500F spark plug. The entire idea is pure, steaming, fly-ridden, cow paddy.
I don't know enough to comment about the other things, but pretty much every current gasoline car or truck engine, regardless of manufacturer, uses some sort of coil on plug system. In my (possibly limited) experience, they require less maintenance and repair than a mechanical distributor; I've never ever had to do anything to a coil pack other than unplug it to get to a spark plug.
GM (and maybe others) did for awhile use a sort of hybrid system where they had separate coils for each cylinder all in a single box and all connected using plug wires, sort of an electronic distributor. That at least gets rid of the mechanical moving contacts to wear out, though you still had plug wires to replace from time to time.
