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john walker's workshop 06-15-2010 10:18 AM

964 exploded distributor
 
well, here's a new one on me. 1991 C2 distributor advance weights broke up and jammed the upper part of the distrubutor, broke the shaft, sheared the pin in the drive gear and...........broke a chunk off the brass drive gear on the crank. gonna be expensive! has this happened to anyone else? i imagine there was some noise going on for a while before it blew.

mlfox 06-15-2010 10:40 AM

Ouch...! What would be the preventive maintenance to make sure that this would not happen? Could this happen with a stock '83 SC?

Thanks,
mlfox

john walker's workshop 06-15-2010 12:28 PM

listen to your car 'cause it's telling you something. a drop of oil on the felt pad under the rotor at services. hard to say after the fact. maybe just broke without warning. i suppose it could happen to an SC as well. i hope it's not something new that's going to start happening more as the cars age.

Steve@Rennsport 06-15-2010 12:40 PM

Thats a new one for me, John,....... :)

I've seen plenty of trashed 3.6 distributors but thats something different.

mlfox 06-15-2010 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by john walker's workshop (Post 5405922)
listen to your car 'cause it's telling you something. a drop of oil on the felt pad under the rotor at services. hard to say after the fact. maybe just broke without warning. i suppose it could happen to an SC as well. i hope it's not something new that's going to start happening more as the cars age.

Thank you for the advice.

Regards,
mlfox


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