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Help...I Dropped My Distributor in Water
This sounds pretty stupid and I feel stupid for having done it, but heres what happened. Last year sometime, I had a bucket of water with some simply green in it and I was cleaning some parts. I had a scrub brush and was cleaning the distributor (trying not to get it wet) and I dropped it in the bucket. It was fully submerged. I dried it out and thought maybe it would be okay.
Now that the engine is back together it seems to not be firing. Does it seem likely that the distributor is the culperate? What would water have done to it? If this isn't the problem what's the sequence for troubleshooting electrical problems?
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02-26-2003, 05:15 AM
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The water didn't necessarily kill it ...
But, the megnetic pickup coil inside is rather fragile, and the wire is tiny ~40 ga or so ... so, dropping it, alone, may have fractured the connection at a solder joint! The pickup coil is supposed to measure 600 Ohms +/- 10 %, at room temperature ... disconnect the green coax cable, and see if you have continuity and can measure the resistance of the coil.
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02-26-2003, 05:25 AM
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Warren,
Thanks for the advice. I'll try to check the distributor this weekend. If it turns out it's not the distributor what should be the next logical thing to check. Right now the engine seems as though it is bogged down by the amount of fuel that has been injected into since it is firing. Is this anything to worry about? It still cranks but seems to have a bit more trouble than it did before it filled up with fuel.
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Had you just rebuilt the distributor? If so the Simple Green will have stripped the Dist. of grease, I am thinking.
However that is not causing your current problem. All the same, a strip and rebuild of the distributor is never a bad idea for a car as old as ours (I also own a '78). The job is pretty straightforward if you work carefully and note where the bits all go. John
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John,
Probably not a bad idea. What does the rebuild entail? I already replaced the cap and the rotor. Where did you get the kit to rebuild it?
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