Broken distributor ear
#1
Broken distributor ear
So after tuning up wifey's blazer...... I noticed the cap was slightly loose..... You guessed it , I just put cap and rotor on two days ago and thought maybe I left the screws fully untightened to before messing w the screws reached the rear screw and found it loose, slid my finger down further and heard a small item drop!!! And knew what it was. Had this happen when I worked at gm years ago. Plastic distributor boby....... Thanks GM. So fixed one item and need to fix more again. 💀💀💀💀💀😖🙄 not really complaining just annoyed w all the delicate parts feel a like half the time I'm working on reading the dead sea scrolls!! Lol
#3
So after tuning up wifey's blazer...... I noticed the cap was slightly loose..... You guessed it , I just put cap and rotor on two days ago and thought maybe I left the screws fully untightened to before messing w the screws reached the rear screw and found it loose, slid my finger down further and heard a small item drop!!! And knew what it was. Had this happen when I worked at gm years ago. Plastic distributor boby....... Thanks GM. So fixed one item and need to fix more again. 💀💀💀💀💀😖🙄 not really complaining just annoyed w all the delicate parts feel a like half the time I'm working on reading the dead sea scrolls!! Lol
I didn't know they had them and I'll keep my eyes open in case one drops in my lap.
#6
I think it's one of those things they made plastic and it was fine for a couple years (like the speedometer and radio bezel) but after 15+ years of countless heat cycles, they're just so brittle that it's hard to touch them without it falling apart...
I have a whole spare distributor from the junk yard sitting on a shelf in the garage just waiting on that day myself...
I have a whole spare distributor from the junk yard sitting on a shelf in the garage just waiting on that day myself...
#7
I've had a couple of the factory ones meet the same fate.. Gotta love the plastic housing.... its always that, or the bushing goes bad in them I replaced the one on my blazer with a Summit Racing brand aluminum distributor .. I think it was around $150.
#8
replaced w summit racing aluminum dist soooooo nice, still getting crk position and cmps correlation runs ok except idle thinking posible stretched timing chain spark adv jumps around 12-18 at idle 6° is a lot and w computer adv is gonna head into the 40's so........back to the drawing board.🙄🤔🤦
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11-25-2012 07:52 AM