someone said if i didnt put thermal paste on my igniters when i swapped them they are friend and would be the reason im not getting any spark,
any truth to this theroy

 

Nope. I dont use paste and havent seen any problem. Its just plug and play. Unless you pry out the back cover, but if you did, you will damage the circuitry. So from my experience, its a NO.

 

even if it were a yes, u can get thermal paste from radio shack for cheap

 

i have like 3 tubes around here, lol

 

FYI for anyone interested, thermal grease like the cheap stuff sold at radio shack is just zinc oxide, like the stuff you use on your nose at the beach, save some $ and get it at the grocery store. There are some very high quality thermal greases made with metallic additives and more conductive materials, but it's far beyond the need of an ignitor in a distributor.

 

Use it. Just like a heat sink is needed (with paste) for your PC, the igniters need to dissapate heat to the dizzy body. They wont die a quick death, but it will shorten their life. Common sense no?

 

greg , i think you got some paste on your face! who is your b/f???

without heat a heat sink agent the ignitor will not transfer heat thus burn up quicker than normal, but the ignitors will work still

 

Carl's right, using thermal grease will ALWAYS lower the temperature of a hot part if mated to a cooler part, so use it if you can.

 

its true that its suppose to help in heat transfer, but if you havent tried it, then its not a fact.

 

Now lets forget about the grease and get back to the problem,lol. Are you stating that the car was running then did not start and had no spark. then you changed the ignitors, put them on and still had no spark? Or did you change them out awhile ago and now it does not have spark? rx7doctor