The coil wire
I've been doing some searches of newspaper archives, and came upon the following from the Long Beach Independent (California). It's from an article dated November 1, 1966, headlined...
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Tahoe, if you mean he may have sabotaged the car before getting to the library, not from the distributor wire pull. The car would not have started. And pulling the wire would only have taken seconds....
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A common way to disable a car is to remove either the coil wire, which is the easiest or to take the battery cables off. On most older cars if you just removed one 'spark' plug wire all the car would...
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Actually, Doug, the use of the word "about" doesn't bother me as much as ''MUST HAVE BEEN'', and that's what I'm being pedantic about.What do you make of 'must have been'? I suspect...
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Actually, Doug, the use of the word "about" doesn't bother me as much as ''MUST HAVE BEEN'', and that's what I'm being pedantic about.What do you make of 'must have been'? I suspect...
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From my perspective, Smithy, I'd say it's on the same order as "about." He's not sure whether the battery is dead or not.Yep, it's a qualification then - and I might just have to...
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Tahoe, if you mean he may have sabotaged the car before getting to the library, not from the distributor wire pull. The car would not have started. And pulling the wire would only have taken seconds....
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my father was a VW mechanic for 40 years, he thought me a few things. I also owned a few VW bugs in my 52 years. The VW bug has four cylinders, each cylinder has one spark plug wire, it connects from...
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Here is a picture that might be useful for reference. Click on the pic for an enlarged view.
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......Hope this helps, jack.Flattered to have you re-iterate Jack and Chris, that's an excellent pic. Time for a thread on the letter, complete, methinks.
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I used to work for a mechanic who purchased used cars at auctions. He used to cut the wires so the cars would run badly through the line. People would see them skipping and stuttering and theyd go...
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Nice bit of info there, Conan. It lends credence to the idea of Zodiac being a technically savvy blue-collar guy - a theory I've long held.
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... he used to simply slide the cover back and snip the wire with clippers, then put the wire back with the plastic cover snapping into place... Eh?
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Smithy,In the pic Chris posted, You can see at the end of the wire, where it almost looks like a plunger.That piece, you could slide it up and down the wire as you please. You'd slide it up, and then...
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Conan! Ah!That plunger-thingy is held on to the distributor with two wire clips, usually, and doesn't slide up the wire, even when it isn't. I think your mechanic fellow was perhaps pulling your leg...
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Why would he have needed to use any kind of subterfuge regarding the coil wire? Cheri probably didn't have a clue how these things worked.
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I was cracking on about this 'subterfuge' approach since Conan got me at it, Doug. I suspect that the perpetrator just reached under that hood and pulled that there H/T lead straight off. He might...
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Most people will open the hood when their car doesnt start.Remembering the cut the wire and replace it scenario I was just mentioning it since it was a way to disable the car, but make it...
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