With the cap and wires out of the way, have someone crank the motor. Watch
to see if the distrib shaft is moving around.
It sounds to me like a bent distributor shaft may be the culprit.
TonyC
-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Vanditmars <kylevan@telus.net>
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
<dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Date: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:52 PM
Subject: DML: Chewing Rotors
>
>Ok, this is starting to get annoying. My truck is eating distributor
>rotors. It really sucks because it's usually when I'm out and about.
>After today, I think I'm gonna carry a spare w/ me and my phillips
>screwdriver at all times.
>
>I'm not sure exactly what happens, but when I pulled the cap off last
>night, the metal had completely seperated from the plastic and was just
>lying in the cap. I did notice there were six individual spots on the
>coil tab on the rotor. Should there just be one? This indicates to me
>that the rotors have been out of balance, but I wouldn't think it would
>cause them to fail. This happened both Wednesday and Thursday. Luckily
>Wednesday one of my buddies came out and gave me a lift to the parts
>store. Thursday, well, it was 11:30pm, and my buddies and I were out
>and about, so no parts stores, but we were able to jam the metal bit
>back into the plastic and I drove the 15kms home. ANY ideas are
>appreciated, as I need to get this fixed ASAP. Driving my sister's DOHC
>automatic trans Neon sucks.
>
>
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