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On really worn leads you get poor connectivity, but the electric charge is still there and needs to get from point A to point B regardless of whether the leads are clogged up...
so it actually jumps along the plastic shell of the distributor cap and leaves little carbon lightning bolt tracks called 'carbon tracks'
and eventually just forms a new path along these carbon tracks that do all the conducting
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What makes a distributor in a car crack?
The cap doesn't actually crack (unless someone broke it) but bad ignition wires can cause to much resistance for the spark to travel to the spark plug so the spark jumps inside the distributor cap causing carbon tracks that resemble cracks.
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probably the cap carbon track on the side will show crack could also be the wire is loose
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