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Aboslutely not the first time I've seen that, nor will it be the last I'm sure.

Last fall at WGI, Lance's self destructed the same way halfway through one of his sessions. He borrowed mine to make sure that was the only issue. Before we put mine back on Dan dabbed a touch of loctite on the screw for kicks and peace of mind.

 

So lesson of the day is to periodically make sure the damned thing is in there tight?

 

No, the lesson is use locktite. Mine went thru my igniter, that BS only cost 250 bucks..

 

yep, loctite. That happened to me once also. Never again. I even had to get it towed home.

 

*raises hand*

Exact same thing happened to me, but the car ran perfectly.

I don't know how, but it did.

 

i wish mine would fall
out i can't get it out to save my life....

 

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out i can't get it out to save my life....</TD></TR></TABLE>

In a fit of rage, a buddy of mine gently clamped down the distributor wrapped in shop rags in a bench vise and attacked the largely plastic rotor with vise grips and tin snips.

After thoroughly destroying the rotor, the seized screw becomes exposed and you can then grip the screw itself with vise grips to remove it.

Some have been brave enough to try an impact screwdriver on it - but I think this might damage/warp the shaft.

Remember just a dab of blue loctite is enough to keep it from backing out

 

mines did the same lol
i was like wtf is that sound in there. i ignored it 2 weeks later i took it off and plastic shaving and **** was all over the place haha.

 

Had the same thing happen to one of my civics. my distributor went a week later.

 

There was a guy on here way back whose rotor screw came out and jammed the top end, his cambelt broke and it dropped the valves and caused a big mess.

 

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Hmm maybe this is what's wrong with my R right now. I have replaced my plugs, wires and still I have a crappy idle. Only in low Rpms it does have a light shutter (as if I have a second vtec) and then in higher RPMs things are fine. I took the distributor off but I didn't see if the screw was loose. I did see a few scoring marks on the inside of the cap. I will have to take the distributor off all together today...