[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Distributor repair 101. The moronic approach.
It's easy. Position the crank in the TDC. Take the distributor out. Replace the broken plastic housing for Hall sensor. Put the distributor back in the car observing the rotor to be pointing at the #1 cyl. Start the car. What the hell, it won't start? Check the spark presence. What do you mean there's no spark? Aha, I musta screwed the Hall sensor wires when I was fishing them through the new housing! Get your faithful Wavetech 2000 and check for continuity/shorts. Everything's OK. Spend the next 2 hours on a full blown Bentley analysis of the whole damn ignition sys. Everything's OK. Hmmm.... Go upstairs, crack open a Mackeson Triple Stout to clear up the brain, clouded by the gasoline fumes. Recall that a while ago Scott Mo. warned that the distributor is sensitive to the accurate mark position and that 10° make the difference between the Start and No Start conditions. Go downstairs back to the garage bring engine to TDC. Pop the distributor cap. Notice that the rotor is slightly off the #1 scoring on the distributor body. Loosen the 13mm nut, turn the distributor approx 15° aligning the rotor perfectly with the scoring. Start the car from a quarter-turn. Call yourself a dumb schmuck. Go back and finish that Mackeson Triple Stout. Wonder if you ever learn to think first then do and not the other way around. Thanks for listening. I feel better now. ************************************************************ Igor Kessel '89 200TQ -- 18psi (TAP) '98 A4TQ -- nothing to declare Philadelphia, PA USA http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/8949/homepage.html ************************************************************
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