Bosch distributor parts? Tips on getting the distributor back together, Hey look I broke some 30 year old plastic inside of the distributor. Options

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So I pulled apart my distributor and it was definitely sticking. You could turn it back a few degrees and the grease was dried up and sticky.

When I got it down to the centrifugal weights and springs at the base, one of the plastic spring mounts broke.


I am thinking a dab of jb weld over the end to keep the spring from leaving and flying up over it?

On the plus side it does not seem to stick at all anymore and goes right back to stop once you twist it.

I guess this is why everyone complains about these?


What a pain. At least nothing else broke. I doubt the little plastic spring seats are available.

Hopefully it will run close to right the spring had to be clamped a little bit to keep it on the shaft....

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It is a /4 I am at work now and can not get the # until 11:30 or 12am ET. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

I will need to rebuild this thing 100% proper but I think this ghetto fix will work to limp it.

I basically took a very small dab of JB Weld Kwik weld, mixed it a little more friendly towards the hardener and used a dental pick to spin it around the top of the metal post building out a little retainer.

I put it upside down for about 5 minutes, then back normal and made sure that it was not running down onto the spring sot he spring could rotate as the shaft does, I.E. no binding.

I think this will hold for this weekend or until I can get this sorted 100% proper. I think I may want to source a new distributor and rebuild that with new springs, and parts. Or do that to this when I am not trying to go on a 130 mile roadtrip friday (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Can you get rebuild kits for these still?


If it helps the car is a 1975 1.8l L-Jet california spec car that had EGR/Cat. So it has a two port vacuum unit and the funky throttle body switch only cali cars had I think?