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

 

One of the reasons I put in a billet aluminum distributor about 10 years ago.

 

Been there, done that.
I didn't know they had them and I'll keep my eyes open in case one drops in my lap.

 

already have ond ordered to prevent this issue again.

 

Same here. Cost me all of about 35 bucks, IIRC.

 

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'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.

 

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.🙄🤔🤦