When Did Cars Stop Using Distributor Caps? ECUs are generally good for the life of the car making them maintenance free. By the very late 1990’s mechanical distributors were pretty much gone from all cars. Do cars still have distributor caps? Cars today don’t have distributors or distributor caps. Okay, some do. … Or if
Where Is The Distributor Cap? The distributor cap is located under the car’s hood. Open the hood and look around for a plastic grey component near the centre of the engine. The distributor cap looks like a crown that has black cables connected to the spokes on its top. These thick black cables are spark
Do Autolite Spark Plugs Need To Be Gapped? Autolite® and all spark plug manufacturers offer spark plugs pre-gapped in the most popular gap sizes. Because of the many gap sizes required, no one offers spark plugs properly gapped for every application. Gapping has always been the job of the installer. What is the gap on