Originally Posted by
onehundred80
It is my understanding that a bad contact somewhere or from being just plain sticky causes excessive sparking on the contacts in relays and the only solution is to repair the problem and get back a near mirror finish on the contact faces. A coarse finish and/or a flat surface on the contacts encourages multiple sparking when closing and will cause burning faster than ever.
Points are actually burnished to get a fine surface finish, they are not nice and shiny for nothing, if it were so they would not bother to finish them so well. I would look into replacing that relay ASAP.
I stand to be corrected by members who know about this stuff as I know little or nothing about it.
Sparkie? Pizzaguy?
You are correct, I knew this would only be a temp thing as the contact on the armature had fused together with the relay contact and both ends were rough.
I'll be replacing the relay now. It did last a week though. Im not a fan of open relays at all.