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Old 06-01-2016, 09:38 AM   #14
colgad
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Re: radio acts like its skipping only when truck is running

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Originally Posted by ray_mcavoy View Post
HEI distributors have a capacitor (or condenser as they used to be called) inside to prevent radio frequency interference:



They rarely go bad but it makes me wonder if you might be dealing with a defective one. Or maybe a poor connection to that capacitor.
Yup, that was the fix for my noise issue too! Mine was the red square style.
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