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Waterproofing the distubuter

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4fingers:

--- Quote from: merrick on November 13, 2008, 20:08:15 ---no point in sealing the top up until you take the dissie out yurn up side down and see the two breather holes in the base seal those up fist or you are wasting your time

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To be honest, I've never had a problem with the Dizzy Units tiny breathers at the lower part of its casing.
If the dizzy cap is sealed, (properly) any water that could enter via the breathers will be forced out due to the air pressure within the unit.
For example: If you take a glass and insert it upside down in a bowl of water, the air pressure trapped inside the glass will stop the water entering inside the glass....

Try it at home tonight and you'll see my reasoning....

I'm not crazy.... Honestly it works...

Range Rover Blues:
My Tuff Toys kit turned into a gooey mess on the dizzy cap and started to be more of a liablity then a help, it's been int he bin a long time now.  I use spray grease on Blue with good quality components.

Reggieroo:
A little bit of work & it will be great a wading, even deep water if you like.

This is mine ( the green rangie) in some really deep fords out with some good guys & gals from mud club in September, it was the only petrol one........... :shock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzEDY7P8Vps

The mods I have done are as follows: The breather holes on the bottom of the dizzy have had nipples fitted & pipes have been routed to the EFI housing & air box, silicone round the dizzy cap & the lead attached to the coil has some grease inside & duct tape wrapped round it to keep it sealed. I found this to be a weak point when testing with the jet wash but since the grease & tape its been fine. Also some nice new tight fitting leads where also fitted.

On that day fording I hadn't finished the dizzy mods by connecting the pipes or fitted the snorkel. I did have to stop for a quick WD40 service after a few fords but now the pipes are connected it should be even better................ ;) It was good that day for a V8 that was only half water proofed.http://

Jonny Boaterboy:
No way! Thanks for all the advice, Sounds like the rubber boots are no good then, I think I will seal the dizzy cap with silicon, grease the spark plug leads where they connect to the plugs, cap, and coil using ... copper anti seize grease? or would waterproof grease be better, the type they use to grease the prop shafts on boats? and then coat the whole lot with the wax chain oil used on motor bike chains, if I still have problems build a cover out of plastic bottels. Does that sound like a good start?

Thanks for all the advice its been very helpfull

muddyjames:
when I had my petrol series 3 I got some rubber washing up gloves and cut the fingers off and the pushed the ignition leads through and cable tied the ends shut. Worked a treat but it does need changing about every 6 months or so but at 30p each or even less now vat is going down it is a cheap way of sealing them all!!  :lol:

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