making ht leads

[bindie]

has anyone done this before ?

any hints / tips?

[Airhead]

you can buy lead from good motor factors shops, the difficulty is removing the old lead from the coil as many jap coils have them glued in position! iirc drewpy changed one once

[wild foamy]

i ended up splicing a new HT lead and cap onto the old one to get the old XJ turbo to run before stripping it down, i cut the head off a brass screw and screwed the new HT lead onto one end and the old HT onto the other with some insulation tape around it, that did the job and it fired but if this is going to be a permanent thing my advice would be to take the coil out and strip the existing HT back, as mentioned above some coils such as the ones on the XJ have the HT lead moulded in but i am sure a way around it can be found

[nayruf]

Hi

In the past I have used an in line connector to fit new HT leads, most of the time the old HT lead becomes knackered at the plug cap so I have just cut the lead shorter and added a new length of HT lead .

http://www.wemoto.co...e/HL-390010_10/

[DTGordo]

Pretty much like the others:

If your coils are OK and you can get the lead out that's an easy fix with some new lead and plug cap. NGK (and others) have a lead splicer/joiner if you want to join new lead on.

I ended up replacing my coil when I messed around with this anyway but it was relatively cheap for the DT. After I got the new coil I cut the old one open to have a look but that's as far as I got.

Gordo