If you are taking the next step after wiggling your Hall sensor/sender connection on your distributor, and deciding that it is deteriorated and may be shorting out (see many previous posts about this problem), the pic below shows what may await you inside. I found that I had 3 wires, black, blue and red. Two had kinks and cracks in the insulation (copper showing all around). The black one was different, in that its insulation ending after the first quarter-inch, and it became a bare, multistranded shroud or shielding, wrapped spirally around the inner core of a cable. The whole cable, which is a non-replaceable part of a harness, consists of the black outer insulation (thin, stiff, tough), then the bare, stranded layer, then the two wires plus 4 fiber strings. (Take it easy with the knife when stripping back to get to the breaks - you can sever a lot of thin strands.) The area where the cracks were sure show potential for shorting out, with each other, and with the bare strands.



I made some spaghetti insulation tubes to cover about an inch of the the blue and red wires. Then I bound the whole thing in rubber tape, then plastic tape. One more step toward solving my intermittent stalling problem.