So i just drove from Dallas to Atlanta...car ran fine all the way here. As soon as i got here i changed my spark plugs, air fliter, oil, oil filter. Before i left Dallas i changed my internal coil cause it went bad and my cap and rotor and plug wires also. the timing belt, water pump was changed by the previous owner and i did a valve adjustment less than 5k ago and checked the timing. The car ran fine today...it started right up and pulled with no hesitation, lag, sputtering, ect... i got to a stoplight and it just cut off! I didn't even realize it had died until the light turned green and i wasn't going anywhere.
The first thing i thought was my fuel pump(just because) but i turned the key and i kicked on fine.
Second was maybe the cap and rotor went bad just from the trip....so i busted out my tools and took off the cap to fine this lime green colored corrosion on the little prongs in the cap, and the blade on the rotor. I happened to have another rotor in my car so i just switched them out...but i had no other cap.

MY question is what the hell is this green corrosion??? and also would a bad cap cause your car to just die like that??? or could it be towards the line or a bad distributor???

Im just trying to get a few answers now before i go and pay loads of money for a tow truck/mechanic for something i can fix on my own!!

 

there was condinsation in ur dizzy and [freak]ed it up get a new one and ull be good to go

 

a new dizzy or a new cap....cause a new dizzy is about $85 if im not mistaken

 

A NEW one for $85 where?

 

how much do they usually run??? maybe it was a rebuilt one....sooo is it the dizzy? and how could condensation get inside like that?

 

go to distributor king on ebay i got mine for like 180 shipped and its not a rebuilt one its brand dizzy new cap rotor and all ready to be installed check it out.

 

so i take it that everyone agrees its the distributor???.... is it normal/common for dizzys to just quit like that without even a check engine light?? imma just get it towed to my house since its pretty simple to swap them out...

 

I found that green crap all inside my cap yesterday, like green dust. I orderd a new cap and rotor so Ill see if that helps out.

Befor you took apart your cap, did you notice your car miss-firing or sputtering?

 

NO...thats the thing it wasn't sputtering, riding rough or anything...it was normal and smooth. I just got it towed to my house today and I switched out the cap, and the car started right up!!!
I was so excited that I decided to go for a drive.... about 2 minutes of driving, the car just died...like all power was lost except the electronics...my battery light did come on right before it died though. The good thing was that it died next to a shop...so I just pulled into the parking lot and locked her up. Imma go up there early tomorrow morning and see whats up, cause i gotta go to work on monday!

 

As said before, you need a new dizzy, there was condensation in it.

When Copper oxidizes it turns green, you could try rebuilding it yourself and cleaning up that oxidation with a wire brush.

 

yeah thats what i figure once it cut off on me about an hour ago...so I've been in the marketplace on here for a couple of minutes looking at a few comparing prices to that ebay site Bac91Da gave me...thanks for the reassurment though

 

So if theres green dust inside then the only way is to get a new dizzy? I hope mines dosent die on me soon. My car runs but it miss fires around 3k-4k under load and anytime befor that and after 4krpm its all good. It could be something else though. If it dies then Ill end up buying a EPM and run AEMs COP so I wont ever have a distributor fail on me.

 

You don't need to buy a new distributor, you just need to clean out all of the oxidation. Read the above posts.

 

whoa just cause someone heres your problem doesnt mean there word is god lol.

was it a really hot day?? I am gunna say yes do to the fact you said dallas. lol
check your main relay.

also try just cleaning it like company flow stated

mine is fine all winter as soon as summer comes I have to flick it a few times and she starts like a charm.

 

what motor? if that's for ls i have a brand new one, let me know if you need one

 

yeah i took it to a shop and got an engine diagnostic and they said that it was a combination of my dizzy and my main relay. my main relay use to do that to me when it was hot but my dizzy got messed up when i drove from Dallas to Atlanta...it was used anyway, so i get what i paid for

 

Good thing you figured it out, good luck with the fix. Hit up distributor king man great price and warranty