Rebuilding opti spark?
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From: jackassville Florida
Rebuilding opti spark? My car rescently started leaking presumably out of the weep hole of the WP, it's been running rough and only getting worse (gambling opti is dying). For the fix I'm swapping to a CSR electric water pump, and apparently attempting to fix the opti situation at the same time. A buddy of mine mentioned a sort of "rebuild kit" so to speak for the distributor from Auto Zone. Said it comes with a optical sensor and whatever else needed for around 100 bucks. Anybody heard and/or done this? I'm trying to gauge what I'm jumping into prior.
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He's is prolly speaking of the cap and button. Easliy changed. If it hasnt got to the cam sensor inside it wouldnt be a bad idea to change the cap and button. Ive been putting small amounts of dielectric grease back on the contacts to keep them from getting all that corosion mess back on them when you put it back together. Good luck.
I currently have 65,000 mi. on my stock opti. I changed the cap/rotor about 3 years ago, and cleaned out the housing thoroughly. I'm running just fine. When I reassembled the unit, I "juiced" the OE seal with some RTV, just for insurance.
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From: LT1 land...the "409" of the 90s!
Step's to rebuild Opti Spark.
Step One...Pull out shot gun and take good aim at old opti.
Step two...Pull trigger and solidly blow away old Opti.
Step Three. Pick up Phone and order new Opti
Best way I have found to rebuild the damn thing!
Step One...Pull out shot gun and take good aim at old opti.
Step two...Pull trigger and solidly blow away old Opti.
Step Three. Pick up Phone and order new Opti
Best way I have found to rebuild the damn thing!
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From: jackassville Florida
Originally Posted by my94blackz
He's is prolly speaking of the cap and button. Easliy changed. If it hasnt got to the cam sensor inside it wouldnt be a bad idea to change the cap and button. Ive been putting small amounts of dielectric grease back on the contacts to keep them from getting all that corosion mess back on them when you put it back together. Good luck.
Originally Posted by TwoFast4Lv
Step's to rebuild Opti Spark.
Step One...Pull out shot gun and take good aim at old opti.
Step two...Pull trigger and solidly blow away old Opti.
Step Three. Pick up Phone and order new Opti
Best way I have found to rebuild the damn thing!
Step One...Pull out shot gun and take good aim at old opti.
Step two...Pull trigger and solidly blow away old Opti.
Step Three. Pick up Phone and order new Opti
Best way I have found to rebuild the damn thing!
Wrong!!! see my # 3
step three. Call Bob Baliey and go LTCC and never replace an Opti again.
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From: LT1 land...the "409" of the 90s!
Originally Posted by 97blkz
Wrong!!! see my # 3
step three. Call Bob Baliey and go LTCC and never replace an Opti again.
step three. Call Bob Baliey and go LTCC and never replace an Opti again.
WRONG!
OPTI HAS to work for that system to work as well
I would NOT be waiting on a new opti if your way worked
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From: St. Louis
Originally Posted by Predator T/A
bro for the aggravation of doing the opti i would just get a whole new unit and be done with it i hate taking lt1 engines apart
Originally Posted by TwoFast4Lv
WRONG!
OPTI HAS to work for that system to work as well
I would NOT be waiting on a new opti if your way worked
OPTI HAS to work for that system to work as well
I would NOT be waiting on a new opti if your way worked
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From: Anna, OH
Originally Posted by redhot lt-1
your best bet is to get a new opti from msd get the whole thing don`t just get a cap and rotor you`ll be wasting your time and money 
The Accel Opti, due to the bearing setup, will be worse than the stock unit, but again, nobody has run it enough yet to tell.
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From: Anna, OH
Originally Posted by harvickgm
i have around 3K miles on my MSD opti with no problems at all.... good solid pull all the way to 6K.... i love it...
with my stock opti and the MSD ignition and coil it lasted about 45K miles before it went.. it was still running strong when removed but has a slight stutter... so i went ahead and got it outta the way...