Damien00677

The title says it all.
I am wondering if spark plug wires can get heat soaked. Especially cheap ones from autozone.
I stopped at autozone to get some polish and wax for my car and when i went back out it would only crank. I am 90% sure it has something to do with the wires because the distributor is less than 2 months old, the coil isn't the problem ( I just happen to have an extra one in my car and tried that one on the car too), it had fuel ( i useda screwdriver as a makeshift fuel pressure tester), and I know there was electricity to is since I could probably have cranked it all day.
I do however have crappy autozone wires.

Anyway, the car started up after probably 30-45 minutes with no trouble.

Nixon1

Nope. The wires are just conductive elements. They'll still conduct whether hot or cold. Sounds like some other item is your problem. Maybe your ICM is overheating (caused by either a crappy ICM or not enough dielectric grease applied to the base).

2_point8_boy

well i don't know if that is completly true nixon. i had a horrible problem with hesitation on my car after it heated up. i didn't have any problem at all while the engine/underhood was cool, but the minute it heated up, BAM, problem city. i tried for days to figure out what the problem was, but to no avail. I ended up changing a couple of wires and the problem went away. My theory is that once the wires heated up, thier resistance went up and mad the spark in them a lot weaker. That might be the problem described here.

ede

i'd suspect a fuel delivery problem, check the preasure

Doward

I'm with Nixon... check the ICM. Pop the distrib cap, and have AZ check it.

Which wires did you get? Their el-cheapo's suck, but the Bosch aren't so bad!

Nixon1

2_point8_boy.....well if the wires fixed the problem I guess I can't contradict that statement. But those wires were in pretty crappy condition right? They were probably JUST giving enough spark as it was, before they got heated for any heat to affect them. Still that's just an operating problem...his problem was a no-start condition.....

Damien....my advice...check out that ICM like me and Dow said, and carry a fuel pressure gauge with you like ede suggested when it doesn't start next time. It's gotta be either fuel or ignition, so if you eliminate one possibility, you've already got the system nailed down--then it just comes down to finding where the problem is. You mentioned you had already done a screwdriver fuel pressure test....but that won't tell you how much, just that you have pressure at all. It might be that you only have maybe 10 psi of fuel pressure....enough to shoot it out that little fitting but not enough to run the car. Hey, might as well cross out as many potentials as we can.

TomP

I'm with Nixon; I think the wires probably had bad crimps at their terminals that the heat affected. The ignition control module sounds like the guilty suspect.

Damien00677

Well, I haven't any problems since I picked up a set of those Bosch wires.
I am hoping it was something to do with the cheap-o wires, I had been through 2 sets before ( the metal things kept coming outta the boots) so I was maybe something in there.

2_point8_boy

i had the Bosch wires, and they were like brand spankin' new (only about 2 months old or so). I don't know, maybe they did have a defect in them, but all I know is that they were fine before they warmed up, but the problwm came after they were nice and toasty warm.

Everything else was checked and turned out to be just fine, so that's why I decided to change the wires and see if that helped.
Ah, who cares, i got new ones for free and they have been fine for the last month or so, so screw it.