Pulled in to my garage just now, hear this pronounced squeaking from under the hood. Pop it and its coming from the distributor, pull off the cap and I find this rust colored dust obviously from something grinding on something else. What do I have to replace/fix/do? The motor is a JDM d15b, thanks.

 

pull the dizzy and rotate it,
it should rotate smoothly,
if it grinds, or wont turn, or is just plan tough to turn, then its blown and ya need a new one(whole damn dizzy)

 

try a new rotor in there

 

or just do what he said

just buy a new one, there not that expensive
if your broke then i'd suggest making friends at a junkyard

 

hell.

How much would one be? (Whole unit)

as to the rotor itself, it seems fine when I wiped it off....

 

you could prob get it at a junkyard for 30 or 40 bux

 

hah, thats what we call it too.......good ****

 

hahahhaha, thats cool. I didn't switch them when we did the motor swap, I think this one may be off my original d16z6 with indeterminate mileage. They hard to swap? just unbolts from the block with like 3 bolts right?

 

yup it's just that simple

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by slamdcivic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you could prob get it at a junkyard for 30 or 40 bux</TD></TR></TABLE>

The number of fingers I have on one hand, count the number of times you've metioned junkyards. You sure must love those run down places.

 

no, actually i work at one

and it's not run down

it's a giant warehouse and the whole yard is.........you guessed it........indoor

no rain = no rust = no mess

so maybe you just don't have nice import salvage yards in Texas

the yard I work at makes nearly 10 grand a day.....at least. That is why i reccomend finding a GOOD yard.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by slamdcivic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">no, actually i work at one

and it's not run down

it's a giant warehouse and the whole yard is.........you guessed it........indoor

no rain = no rust = no mess

so maybe you just don't have nice import salvage yards in Texas

the yard I work at makes nearly 10 grand a day.....at least. That is why i reccomend finding a GOOD yard.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Woo Hoo. Calm down, it was an opinion and a joke. You could have say'd all that in a few short sentences you know?

 

your a joke....heh

see now we're both 10 years old

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by slamdcivic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">your a joke....heh

see now we're both 10 years old</TD></TR></TABLE>

I guess ..

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by slamdcivic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">no, actually i work at one

and it's not run down

it's a giant warehouse and the whole yard is.........you guessed it........indoor

no rain = no rust = no mess

so maybe you just don't have nice import salvage yards in Texas

the yard I work at makes nearly 10 grand a day.....at least. That is why i reccomend finding a GOOD yard.</TD></TR></TABLE>

would be nice if there was something like that around here..

oh wait.. there is..
its called honda-tech classifieds

 

was that a HTECH "plug"?

sounded almost like a commercial for htech

 

replace it soon same thing happened to me..i was driving then bam car died took off the distributor cap and the rotor contact was chewed off,the contacts on the distributor cap were chipped thats what the grinding/sqeaking noise is...the bearing is about to go out just go buy a new distributor along with a new cap and rotor

wish i could of taken pics of it before i gave it as a core

 

Just talked to my Honda tech (er, real Honda tech heheh, that did my swap) he said theres the one on my d16z6 and he has another laying around, so going to pull it and go match one up hopefully. Thanks for the help.

 

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WTF, I'm living in the wrong state. I should go live down there for those prices, oh I see they probalby have dime a dozen. yeah right!

 

Thanks again all, had a friend take me to my mechanics. Turned out he swapped my hi mileage dist from my old motor to my JDM since he thought the plugs might be different (didn't compare them, they're not) got the JDM one, cleaned it up, slapped it on, just went for a test drive, tach'd it out a few times, works great.

didnt replace the cap and rotor tho, the rotor on the jdm dist, and the cap I had were both in good condition