cables for sailing

[instarx]

I used to use translation software to communicate with clients in many countries. There are ways to make the translations better.
Eu usei-me para usar o software da tradução para comunicar-se com os clientes em muitos países. Há umas maneiras de fazer as traduções melhores.

Try to ask your question in very simple language. Include the original language and the translation. Answers should be in complete, short sentences. Punctuate sentences correctly. Spell words correctly.
Tente fazer sua pergunta na língua muito simples. Inclua a língua original e a tradução. As respostas devem estar em sentenças completas, curtas. Interrompa sentenças corretamente. Soletre palavras corretamente.

MIJ -
Use the same rules for your answers.
Answers can be translated to Portuguese here:
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Use as mesmas réguas para suas respostas.
Respostas podem ser traduzidas ao português aqui:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

[instarx]

But the word "estralo"--I can't make heads or tails of it, I think it might be a colloquial automotive term.

I think he is describing a sound... a "crack"... or a crack in the distributor cap.

[instarx]

Here is my translation:

This week I noticed something strange in my 850 turbo, I cannot touch the cable that leaves [enters?] the distributor [the bobbin is the distributor, not the coil] without getting shocked. Should I have to change the spark plug wires? I have a probe that measures voltage in cables without touching the cables The probe does not have to touch the distributor cable and there is a "crack". [I'm confused here - either the "crack" is a sound, or a cracked distributor cap]. I put the meter on the cables that go to the spark plugs and they were energized. The cables are original and if I need to I will import cables, distributor cap, rotor, and spark plugs from fcp groton in U.S.A. The number 4 spark plug was not firing but now it is.

I don't know 850s, but it sounds like he has a cracked distributor cap to me. Any time there is a ground near (his hand, the probe) there is an electrical arc through the distributor cap.

[VCA]

But the word "estralo"--I can't make heads or tails of it, I think it might be a colloquial automotive term.

I think he is describing a sound... a "crack"... or a crack in the distributor cap.

Ah, okay, that would make sense. Then yes, he's either seeing a crack in the cap (850s have one), or the coil assembly.

[Fabiano]

Thanks a lot for the aid friends but I find that I have that to change to the handles the candles the rotor and the deliverer

[instarx]

Well, I'm certinly glad that got cleared up! LOL