Re: More Info on Spider Diagnosis

[Simon Favre <simon@domain.elided>]

I think you just answered your own question. Congrats on finding it so
quickly. See, like I always say, the fastest way to find a problem is NOT
to email the Digest, it's to LOOK under the car. ;=)

There isn't supposed to any side play in the distributor shaft. Unless you
want to spend time and money having somebody try to repair that one, I
think the most expedient approach is to get hold of a good used one and
just pop it in there.

>Well, after I sent my previous email, I went out and took the shield off the
>distributor and then went to remove the distributor cap - figuring I'd want
>to see the rotor move.
>Was I suprised.  There are one-inch diameter holes in three sides of the
>distributor cap and the contact on the end of the rotor is gone!  I did find
>hunks of distributor cap resting on the air conditioning compressor.
>
>Sooooooooo, the new question is -- how much play should there be at the top
>of the distributor shaft - where the rotor goes.  I've got a quarter of an
>inch or more side play and a half inch up and down.

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