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PSA: Always make sure you tighten the rotor retaining screw on your distributor.

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Old 06-23-2006, 08:44 PM
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Default PSA: Always make sure you tighten the rotor retaining screw on your distributor.

As you can guess from the post title, i did not properly tighten the screw when i replaced my cap and rotor . here is the resulting mayhem, its a cell phone pic so its hard to tell whats going on, there is a hole in the cap, lots of shrapnel inside, bits of plastic and metal everywhere, the rotor is broken, and the leads on the cap are tore up, one is down to a nub

but all is well, its fixed and running fine, coulda been worse



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Default Re: PSA: Always make sure you tighten the rotor retaining screw on your distributor. (littlegreenb18

so all this mayham set you back 20 bux for new cap/rotor eh?
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like i said, could been worse
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Default Re: PSA: Always make sure you tighten the rotor retaining screw on your distributor. (littlegreenb18

Hey thanx for the heads up

PSA: always read instructions
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Default Re: PSA: Always make sure you tighten the rotor retaining screw on your distributor. (littlegreenb18

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by fast95eg8 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Hey thanx for the heads up

PSA: always read instructions </TD></TR></TABLE>

what instructions
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same **** happened to me, car was running bad went to adjust my timing grabbed the dizzy and got a hell of a shock
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